<p>I mentioned in my <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/04/08/unwelcome-surprise-homebrew-emacs-has-no-gui-after-os-x-mojave-update/">previous post</a> that I somehow had ended up with a non-working org2blog installation. My suspicion is that this was triggered by my pinning of the htmlize package to the “wrong” repo. I had it pinned to marmalade rather than melpa-stable, and marmalade had an old version of htmlize (1.39, from memory). The fact that marmalade is…
<p>I finally got around to upgrading my OS X installation from Mojave to High Sierra - my OS update schedule is usually based on the old pilot wisdom of “don’t fly the A model of anything”. As part of the upgrade, I ended up reinstalling all homebrew packages including Emacs to make sure I was all up to date. That proved to be a big mistake as I suddenly had a GUI-less Emacs. Of course I found the post on <a href="https://irreal.org/blog/?p=7506">Irreal</a> about the Emacs…
<p>Ben Simon has a post up on his blog describing how <a href="http://www.blogbyben.com/2018/04/a-little-scheme-setup-and-development.html">he set up a scheme development environment on his Galaxy S9 Android phone</a>. It was also an especially timely post as I had been eyeing a Mac Quadra with a Symbolics Lisp Machine extension card on eBay. As if we needed another reminder just how powerful current phones have become!</p>
<p>Saw the <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00765.html">announcement</a> on on the GNU Emacs mailing list this morning. Much to my surprise, it’s also already available on <a href="https://brew.sh/">homebrew</a>. So my Mac is now sporting a new fetching version of Emacs as well :). I’ve been running the release candidate on several Linux machines already and was very happy with it, so upgrading my OS X install was pretty much a no brainer.</p>
<p>I’ve <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2016/12/13/converting-files-from-dos-to-unix-file-formats-using-emacs/">previously blogged</a> about using Emacs to convert line endings and use it as an alternative to the dos2unix/unix2dos tools. Using <em>set-buffer-file-coding-system</em> works well and has been my go-to conversion method.</p>
<p>As posted in a few places, <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-04/msg00258.html">Emacs 26.1-RC1 has been released</a>. Following up my <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/11/15/emacs-on-the-linux-subsystem-for-windows/">previous experiments with running Emacs on the Windows Subsystem for Linux</a>, I naturally had to see how the latest version would work out. For that, I built the RC1 on an up-to-date Ubuntu WSL. I actually built it twice – once…
<p>A quick follow-up to my <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/12/13/running-emacs-inside-emacs/">last post where I was experimenting with running emacsclient from an ansi-term</a> running in the main Emacs. Interestingly, you can run Emacs in text mode within an ansi-term, just not emacsclient:</p>
<p>I’m experimenting with screen recordings at the moment and just out of curiosity decided to see if I can load and edit a text file inside the main Emacs process from inside an ansi-term using emacsclient.</p>
<p>I’ve had the Linux Subsystem for Windows enabled for quite a while during the time it was in Beta. With the release of the Fall Creators Update, I ended up redoing my setup from scratch. As usual I grabbed Emacs and a bunch of other packages and was initially disappointed that I was looking at a text-mode only Emacs. That might have something to do with the lack of an X Server…</p>
<p>Emacs 25.3 has been <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00006.html">released</a> on Monday. Given that it’s a security fix I’m downloading the source as I write this. If you’re using the latest Emacs I’d recommend you update your Emacs. The vulnerability as been around since Emacs 19.29, you probably want to upgrade anyway.</p>
