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Emacs Reboot #2: Startup
After compilation completes it’s time to give the new Emacs a shot: $ 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: … Continue reading
Leave it to java
After what felt like thousands of years of font purgatory, fonts have more or less been completely ironed out in modern Linux desktop systems. But that’s not going to stop Java from mucking things up. Start with the fact that … Continue reading
Daemonic Emacs
Emacs is many things, but lightweight is not one of them. You don’t want to be starting a new Emacs process every time you edit a file, especially if you have an extensive set of customizations and extensions being loaded … Continue reading
Ubuntu, Emacs, and Fonts
Ubuntu is a wonderful development environment in many ways, but let’s not beat around the bush: fonts in Linux have always been a disaster. It’s not as bad is it used to be; these days Ubuntu ships with some nice-looking … Continue reading
The Trifecta of FAIL; or, how to patch Rails 2.0 for Ruby 1.8.7
It’s an oft-stated fact that most disasters result not from a single point of failure but from a combination of failures reinforcing each other. I wouldn’t term the problem I ran into last Friday a disaster, but it certainly cost … Continue reading
