<p>The Windows build of Emacs 24.5 doesn’t ship with SSL and TLS support out of the box. Normally that’s not that much of a problem until you are trying to access marmalade-repo or have <a href="https://github.com/punchagan/org2blog">org2blog</a> talk to your own blog via SSL/TLS.</p>
<p>As I mentioned in <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2015/03/02/improving-my-blogging-workflow-using-emacs-of-course/">yesterday’s post</a>, I’m trying to improve my blogging workflow by using org2blog to draft my posts before pushing them to my WordPress blog. When I posted yesterday I had the basic workflow going, could edit posts in Emacs, save them, update drafts and push them to WordPress. The last piece that was missing was getting spell checking to work.</p>
<p>I try not to post too many metablogging posts. Other people do it better and I’m trying to focus on journalling what I learn as a software engineer and manager, not what tools I use for blogging. However after losing another post to WordPress’s built-in editor I decided Something Must Be Done. I think this is only the second post I lost, but it’s a fairly regular occurrence for a journalist friend of mine and I really don’t have that much time to retype blog entries…
<p>Yes, I promise I’ll shut up about Emacs package management via ELPA any minute now.</p>
<p>I’ve blogged about a little elisp snippet I use to install my preferred base set of Emacs packages <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2014/09/06/install-your-basic-emacs-packages-via-a-single-function-call/" title="Install your basic Emacs packages via a single function call">before</a>. Thanks for all the feedback, it definitely helped improve the code.</p>
<p>I’ve been using the official GNU distribution of <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/">Emacs for Windows</a> for the last few years and am very happy with it. Well, <em>usually</em> I am very happy with it until someone sends me a 25GB log file I need to analyse and the 32 bit Emacs refuses to play when faced with the enormity of the file in question.</p>
<p><a href="http://melpa.org/">MELPA</a> has recently got its own domain (<a href="http://melpa.org/">melpa.org</a>) so it’s time to update your list of package repositories with the new URL.</p>
<p>For those who aren’t aware of this yet, there is an <a href="http://emacs.stackexchange.com/">Emacs Stackexchange</a> site that’s currently in beta. I’d like to encourage everybody to take part in it so it can become a viable site on the Stack Exchange network.</p>
<p>If you, like me tend to carry around or “cloud around” a single .emacs file so you end up with similar environments wherever you have an Emacs install, you know it’s a little painful to ensure that you have the same set of basic packages installed on each one of your Emacs installations. As I had mentioned before I don’t use that many third party packages so my Emacs configurations aren’t that complicated, but I always prefer to have the computer remember things…
<p>A common annoyance with Emacs when working on a code base that has duplicate file names is that the mode line tends to display the buffer names as “one.py:<1>”, “one.py:<2>” etc etc. That doesn’t help much with telling them apart and I find it confusing.</p>
