New tools, in turn, alter the tasks for which they were designed, indeed alter the situations in which the tasks occur and even the conditions that cause people to want to engage in the tasks.
Lately I do the bulk of my coding on a Kinesis Advantage keyboard. Increasingly I’m also making use of the optional 3-switch foot pedal. It’s been interesting watching the effect this has on my priorities for editor keybindings. Every keypress or key-chord has an opportunity cost associated with it. Some are higher than others. Most […]
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After compilation completes it’s time to give the new Emacs a shot:
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$ src/emacs |
It starts up successfully, and makes a valiant attempt to load my existing Emacs configuration. I notice some warnings about missing Gtk3 modules in the output:
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Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "globalmenu-plugin" |
The first is easy to fix:
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$ sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk3-dev |
The second I can’t find an immediate solution […]
I’ve been getting the urge to do a full Emacs reboot lately. Inspired partly by the interesting things going on in Emacs 24, I’ve been wanting to rebuild my whole working Emacs working environment–evolved over the course of years–throw away the cruft, upgrade assorted extensions, and maybe learn a few things along the way. Oddly, […]
A developer notebook on applying classic Object-Oriented principles to Ruby on Rails projects.
