Posts tagged “Emacs”

2010 Jun 9

Mounting Windows shares in Linux userspace

A current project has forced me into the clunky world of Windows, to verify that a Python program compiles and runs there just like it runs under Linux. Instead of trying to port my entire development environment to Windows — which includes two decades of customizations and a small empire…

2010 Feb 24

Opening tabs remotely in Google Chrome

Now that I use Google Chrome almost exclusively, I miss the fact that a running Firefox instance could be controlled from the command line so that Emacs could call for a new tab when I clicked on a URL. It would run a command something like this: firefox -remote 'openURL(http://example.com/,…

2009 Feb 25

Installing Python packages for Emacs with virtualenv

The only rough edge I have found amidst the otherwise exceptional advice on Ryan McGuire's Enigma Curry blog is that Ryan recommends installing Python packages with: $ sudo easy_install package_url This means that his Emacs configuration — which, very generously, he has started maintaining as a project on github so…