Archive for April, 2003

2003

27

Apr

Upgrading to emacs-wiki 2.39-rc9 UPDATED!

By Gaz under Announcements

Upgraded to the latest release candidate of emacs-wiki.el from TheEmacsWiki:DamienElmes today, and regenerated this whole site. Everything is fine, though I applied the patches from EmacsWiki which this site requires.

2003

26

Apr

emacs-wiki-journal.el

By Gaz under Programming

I’ve been tinkering with this for about a month now, but it’s about ready for public consumption now. I have organised the local copy of my site to have these journal entries allocated to categories, and have been hand generating the category indices. These extensions create the header line for a new journal entry along [...]

2003

26

Apr

XEmacs buglet in emacs-wiki.el UPDATED!

By Gaz under Programming

I have been writing emacs-wiki-journal.el, a collection of extensions to emacs-wiki.el for maintaining the category indices for this Wiki page. While trying to call the emacs-wiki-read-name function in XEmacs, I noticed that my filtered completion list was being clobbered. Here is the patch: EmacsWiki.

2003

16

Apr

emacs-wiki source links in published pages UPDATED!

By Gaz under Announcements

I wanted to add a “Source” button to the footer navigation for each of the published pages on the site. This code does that, when added to an appropriate place in the wiki page (I’ve put it in the footer for this site).

2003

14

Apr

Crashed my iBook

By Gaz under Technology

Had to restore my OS X installation after I accepted an offer from Software Update to upgrade from 10.2.4 to 10.2.5. Part way through the install the machine shut down and left itself in an unbootable state. It’s taken me all evening to restore it, and happily the combo update from my 10.2 install disks [...]

2003

14

Apr

Sold My FTO

By Gaz under Bikes & Cars

I’ve only owned this car for 28 weeks, and it has cost me GBP9,500 so far. Deducting the sale price and reimbursements from my (recently expired) warranty from this figure leaves me almost GBP3,000 out of pocket – more than GBP100 per week. It’s a beautiful car, and it drives wonderfully, but I can’t afford [...]