<p>I haven’t used Ubuntu much recently after switching several systems to Manjaro, but had to set up a laptop with XUbuntu 17.04. That came with Emacs 24.5 as the default emacs package, and as skeeto pointed out in the comments, with a separate emacs25 package for Emacs 25.1. I tend to run the latest release Emacs everywhere out of habit, so I revisited my build instructions to build a current Emacs on Ubuntu and its derivates. The good news is that in thanks to some changes in the Emacs…

<p>Turns out I made some unnecessary “work” for myself when I tried to <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/05/07/extending-inf-mongo-to-support-scrolling-through-command-history/">add support for command history to inf-mongo</a>. As Mickey over at Mastering Emacs points out in a blog post, comint mode already comes with <em>M-n</em> and <em>M-p</em> mapped to <em>comint-next-input</em> and <em>comint-previous-input</em>. And of course they work in <a…

<p>I’m spending a lot of time in the MongoDB shell at the moment, so of course I went to see if someone had built an Emacs mode to support the MongoDB shell. Google very quickly pointed me at <a href="https://github.com/endofunky/inf-mongo">endofunky’s inf-mongo mode</a>, which implements a basic shell interaction mode with MongoDB using comint. We have a winner, well, almost. The mode does exactly what it says on the tin, but I wanted a little more, namely being able to scroll…

<p>What do you do if you don’t have dos2unix, need to convert a file or three from DOS (or Mac) format to UNIX format, but all you have is Emacs? Well, of course you use Emacs for the file conversion, what else?</p>

<p>I used XEmacs quite a lot in the 2000s before I switched back to the more stable GNU Emacs. That was back then before GNU Emacs offered a stable official Windows build when XEmacs did, and at the time I was doing a lot of Windows development.</p>

<p>A reader of this blog kindly pointed out that my instructions for <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2016/10/08/how-to-build-gnu-emacs-25-1-on-xubuntu-16-04/">building Emacs 25.1</a> on Ubuntu 16.10 result in a core dump when the build process bootstraps emacs. I only tested the instructions on 16.04 so I hadn’t run into this issue yet.</p>

<p>Now that GNU Emacs 25.1 has been released, it is time for my customary “how to install Emacs 25.1 on a recent Ubuntu” post. In my case I’m using XUbuntu 16.04, but the instructions are pretty much the same for just about every recent Ubuntu version. The package versions of the referenced packages differ, but the package names haven’t changed since I first published one of these posts.</p>

<p>The <a href="http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/">Hack 2.0</a> font got a lot of attention recently as a font specifically designed for use with source code. So of course I had to try it out in Emacs. I started with installing it on Mac OS X as that’s the OS I use most for work and work - like activities.</p>

<p>Artur Malabarba over on Endless Parentheses has a <a href="http://endlessparentheses.com/embedding-youtube-videos-with-org-mode-links.html?source=rss">short post</a> about embedding a YouTube video directly from org-mode. I haven’t tried using it in org2blog yet, but I’m hoping/expecting that it’ll work there, too.</p>

<p>I’ve recently switched to using homebrew as my source for Emacs on OS X  after seeing <a href="http://struct.tumblr.com/post/46754394733/emacs-24-use-homebrew-instead-of-emacsformacosx">this blog post by Philip Ingram</a>.</p>