Dryice Liu’s Blog

Let Emacs handle mailto:

Well Firefox is a web browser only and it doesn’t come with a mail client, so it will call the system default mailer to handle “mailto:” links.
It is hard to say how to define the system default mailer. It’s different according to your OS: On windows they use registry, in the Unix world it depends […]

¶ Posted 14 April 2006 § firefox ‡ Comments (0)

eshell

There are many shell interface within Emacs, shell, eshell, and ansi-term can call the shell you like. IMO eshell is the one intergrated with Emacs the most and I use most.
The most intergration that the others don’t have (to my knowledge) is that we can call lisp functions within the shell. like input
message "Hello, world!"
will […]

¶ Posted 07 April 2006 § emacs ‡ Comments (0)

dired: view files according to mime types

Well In my last blog about dired, I customized
dired-guess-shell-alist-user is a variable defined in `dired-x.el’.
Documentation:
User-defined alist of rules for suggested commands.
These rules take precedence over the predefined rules in the variable
`dired-guess-shell-alist-default’ (to which they are prepended).
Each element of this list looks like
(REGEXP COMMAND…)
where each COMMAND can either be a string or a Lisp expression that […]

¶ Posted 04 April 2006 § emacs ‡ Comments (0)

dired

While Emacs being a platform of everything, needless to see it can do file management well. Among them dired is the standard package.
Here are some useful settings
(require ‘dired)
;; Setup dired to let you nicely copy stuff inbetween two dired
;; windows.
(setq dired-dwim-target t)
;; delete un-empty directories recursivly without warning
(setq dired-recursive-deletes ‘always)
;; recursive copy without prompt
(setq dired-recursive-copies […]

¶ Posted 02 April 2006 § emacs ‡ Comments (2)

The choice of editor

The first thing for my USB key is a good editor, and this turns out to be the hardest.
As I am an Emacs user, the idea thing is to bring Emacs with me. However, it is too laaaarge for a USB key. It’ll take half of my 256M key, and I’ll have severl MB of […]

¶ Posted 22 March 2006 § usb_key ‡ Comments (0)

keyconfig

address: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=254
This extension allows us to re-bind keys to functions. Pretty useful for keyboard users like me. A side benefit is that you could learn lots of new key bindings and find out “why this key binding doesn’t work?” — Mostly because the key is bind to another function in another extension.
It can also disable […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2006 § extension ‡ Comments (0)

seperate configure file and auto compile them

As our Emacs configure file gettting larger and larger (my config files are now about 250K), it is a good idea to seperate them into different categories and byte-compile them for speed up.
However, it is boring to manually byte-compile them whenever I make a change, even with dired. So here is my solution.

The function to […]

¶ Posted 15 March 2006 § emacs ‡ Comments (0)

So it all begins

After several hours work, I’ve got my muse+pyblosxom setuped. So now it’s my start of my blog.
The first thing I’ll need to do is to go through my planner pages and get the notes somewhat like a blog into this blog system.
I’ll write most of my blog in English, as a practice and more “world […]

¶ Posted 12 March 2006 § misc ‡ Comments (0)

export notes to pyblosxom

well I decide to give this up.
The main reason is that muse-blosxom-new-entry makes the file name from blog title. I think it’s a good idea. But that make me harder, if possible, to keep the planner notes sync with blog entries.
What’s more, I might use different sub-set of muse features on planner and blog. Like […]

¶ Posted 11 March 2006 § planner ‡ Comments (0)