Aspell causing emacs to hang

The following helped ...

(setq-default ispell-extra-args  '("--sug-mode=ultra"))

emacs, gnus and mailto url from firefox on linux

I finally got mailto working properly with Gnus posting styles by tweaking some other solutions. Documented here.

company mode : emacs auto completion

I have recently cleaned up my programming elisp files and have got company-mode working again. It is truly excellent. check out the settings here.

emacs-fu: navigating through source code using tags

emacs-fu: navigating through source code using tags

I'm not sure that GLOBAL is a good thing. etags seems a lot better AND works with elisp. Combine it with etags tables. Having said that, the tags code navigation/completion situation in emacs is such a mess and so full of "almost ready" solutions one has to wonder what does what these days.

blogging with fixed url

(define-key mode-specific-map [?B] 'rgr/blog)

(defun rgr/blog ()
  (interactive)
  (if current-prefix-arg
      (progn 
	(let ((url(read-from-minibuffer "Post URL:")))
	  (gblogger-new-entry url)))
    (gblogger-new-entry rgr/gblogger-post-url)
    ))

Compositing and transparent emacs with xmonad

Read here for the emacs code
: Emacs-fu and making emacs transparent,
and here for the xmonad part : XMonad Compositing

gpg-agent for caching key passwords with gpg-agent

What a palava. A hundred readmes and howtos explaining how to run
gpg-agent in Linux for caching with the Emacs epa libraries and low
and behold it's already done in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent. Aargh. Also in my .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf the gtk2 pin reader does not work. Has to be X11. Dont ask me why.

Addendum : I'm an idiot. It should be "pinentry-gtk-2". Works now!

Remember where you are in Emacs files.

saveplaces.el

Use the saveplaces package to remember where you
were before when you reopen a file. Click on this link for more info.

How to use g-client from emacs for blogger.com blogs

Download Source

g-client package

Unarchive, add to your path in emacs, open a terminal, cd to that
directory and run make config

Understanding how to use it

The key is to set your g-user-mail to your googlemail
ID..e.g

(setq g-user-email "rileyrgdev@gmail.com")

and then you run gblogger-blog to log in and view your
blogs. Then comes the not so tricky bit. Put your cursor over the
"post" link for the blog you are interested (you should be using W3M by the way!) in and then hit "u" in W3m to copy the POST URL to the clipboard. Having done that, simply run gblogger-new-entry and paste in that POST URL. The rest is all down to you and your favorite nxml emacs editor .... And google of course :-;

Another test with embedded html tags

	
	  http://purl.org/net/emacs-gblogger/
	   shamrock  
	  
	  
	    

	      
Title test from g-client
	      

	      
	    
	  
	
      

Another test using nxml editor

Title test from g-client

(autoload  'ipa-insert "ipa")
(define-key mode-specific-map [?A] 'ipa-insert) 
(define-key mode-specific-map [?b] 'gblogger-blog)
(define-key mode-specific-map [?B] 'gblogger-new-entry)
(define-key mode-specific-map [?W] 'w3m-bookmark-view)
      

another test from g-client

Hello from g-client!

Blog client broken

My gblogger client from emacs has broken. I am trying something called g-client but can't get it to work! Damn. Just as I was reinvigorated and was going to post a long article about the dangers of pinning and sucking in unstable code into a Debian Lenny set up (Yeah, I know what "unstable" means...).