http://dryice.name/blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Why I don't think I need to say anything about why we want to use the keyboard over a mouse: All the geeks love it, and it's just more efficiency. However when we come to web visiting, it is not easy to just use our keyboard. Of cause we can use text ... http://dryice.name/blog/firefox/keyboard-navigation-in-firefox/   Contents Why Using GDB Before Emacs 22 The new interface with Emacs 22   Why Using GDB is necessary for every C/C++ developer in the Linux world. Though many gurus like the traditional command line, many people want a more integrated interface. At least they don't want to do list all the time. Among the current solutions ... http://dryice.name/blog/emacs/using-gdb-in-the-new-emacs-22/ Well, together with the LX5 my wife also get me a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. There's nothing wrong with my old Dell keyboad and/or the BTC 9019URF wireless keyboard. It is my wrist. With more and more typing, I began to feel the pain of RSI so I ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/the-new-microsoft-natural-ergonomic-keyboard-4000/ Well this begins several days ago. When I tried to solve a challenge and I google around, and well, Google give me a result in my own blog. And it turns out that I've fixed the problem a year ago :) So I decide to blog more, rather than one or ... http://dryice.name/blog/misc/switched-to-wordpress/ I really enjoy the sudo-save.el. It makes editing files owned by root quite smoothly on a local machine. However with the recent update of sudo to 1.6.9 in the ports tree, it print a "last login time" message every time. And breaks sudo-save.el. I didn't find time yesterday and portdowngrade to ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/sudo-169-and-sudo-saveel/ On my way of finding a tool to easy find defination/reference of Python code, I found Bicyclerepair man. First I just use it to find definatins and references. And after some hacking, it works pretty good with my Emacs. After reading some document, I find it opens a BIG door: it's ... http://dryice.name/blog/python/bicyclerepair-man-a-refactoring-code-browser/ Tamas Patrovics posted timid.el a couple days ago, and I find it really useful: The original goal was to help open history files with find-file. However yesterday he make it possible to use with iswitchb-buffer: The history file list also shows up there. First of all I rebind some keys cause I ... http://dryice.name/blog/emacs/combile-switching-buffer-and-open-filesdirectories/ I know ee is the default editor on FreeBSD, but never use it. The first thing I got a Unix machine is to compile Emacs on it. However on the FreeBSD cluster I don't want to waste the resource. So I'll need to find some replacement. Jed is not available either. ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/ee-support-emacs-keybindings/ Like many console people I've set w3m as my man pager, i.e, alias man='TERM=xterm LC_ALL= w3mman' when w3m is available. However, there's one thing bother me alot: whenever I quit the man page (from console, not within Emacs), w3m asks if I really want to quit. This is borthing. So I finially turns myself ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/quit-w3m-without-confirmation/ Well I've used Emacs planner for more than 2 years everyday, and really happy about it. However, as I got more and more rely on it, I can still find some room for improvement, but not easy to do: It is all text based. This is good in some way, but bad ... http://dryice.name/blog/emacs/planner/get-things-done/