Want real shell mode in Emacs? Using M-x shell only gives terminal emulation, which sometimes doesn’t display things correctly and which, since it supports all Emacs key bindings, makes you do things like use M-p instead of C-p to bring up previous commands in the command buffer ring. Most of the time Shell mode is… Continue reading Emacs Tip of the Month
Category: Computers & Software
EP Studios Projects Update
Here’s a rundown of current activity at the EP Studios mothership: EP Office EP Office is the flagship project of EP Studios. Version 1.7 is out and basically is the culmination of the original software, which started out as a Microsoft Access version 2 database way back in 1995. It is proprietary software, but very… Continue reading EP Studios Projects Update
Stupid Bug
Having just spent the last several hours chasing down a weird bug, there is a sense of anticlimax having finally figured it out. I have to say the debugger was less than useless in this matter: various functions mysteriously were not working, although identical code seemed to work elsewhere, variables were listed as “not in… Continue reading Stupid Bug
Amarok Startup Crash — Solved!
Every since I upgraded to OpenSuse 11.2, a source of frustration was that Amarok was broken, and I couldn’t fix it. Every time I tried to start it, I would immediately get a crash report from KDE. I could solve the problem by downgrading libxine to the version that came with OpenSuse, but that meant… Continue reading Amarok Startup Crash — Solved!
Plugging Away At EP Simulator
Just to show that I have been working on this project, here’s another screenshot which I posted at SourceForge. Source code is hosted at GitHub. I expect to upload Windows and Linux binaries soon for download for those of you who aren’t into compiling source code.
On Namespaces — Again!
I have a thing about C++ namespaces, and this is yet another post on the topic. Oh well, so my life isn’t that exciting… Namespaces avoid polluting the global namespace with names that might conflict with each other. Classes similarly encapsulate method and data member names from the big bad cold outside global namespace, but… Continue reading On Namespaces — Again!
Emacs Suprises
I shouldn’t be surprised anymore about the capabilities of Emacs. But now that Sluggo has moved into my closet as a headless server, I have been doing a lot of ssh’ing to the poor beast from my other computers in order to manage files remotely. Only recently though I discovered I could edit text files… Continue reading Emacs Suprises
EP Studios Blog Restored
After a fair amount of work, the blog is back close to what it was. I restored all the missing image links but one. I updated to the latest version of WordPress (2.9). I updated the database to UTF-8, getting rid of some funny accented characters, but in place some of the blogs have highlighted… Continue reading EP Studios Blog Restored
Disaster Strikes EP Studios Blog
Sluggo has been a headless server for just a few days now. I ssh to it to login, I download stuff from the command line with wget, and so forth. I also remove stuff with rm, no more gui-based file deleting into a nice safe recycle bin. Soooooo….., when I got the inevitable nattering message… Continue reading Disaster Strikes EP Studios Blog
Sluggo The Server
(The title of this post should be read with the same cadence as “Thomas The Tank Engine.”) When my son Kevin got his Falcon Northwest computer he passed on to me his old Gateway computer (which is a nice dual core system). This computer had its hard drive wiped and a new install of OpenSuse… Continue reading Sluggo The Server