I’m very happy to announce the release 1.0 of the Emacs identica-mode microblogging client. Its been a while since the last release, and its been for a good reason! The main improvements are: HTTP backend rewrite The backend that makes the HTTP connections has been completely rewritten to use url.el mode instead of the previous [...]
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3 methods on how to backup your Emacs file
February 1st, 2010
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The emacs personalization file (dotemacs) is a very important resource for every Emacs user. Typically found at ~/.emacs, this file contains elisp code all the personalization of Emacs to accommodate each user. Its so important that it basically represents your Emacs “personality”. To loose your .emacs file can mean loosing a lot of hours of [...]
Mac OS X from a GNU/Linux User
November 23rd, 2009
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The Mac OS X slogan I’ve heard from several mac fanboys is “it just works”. Well, being a GNU/Linux user for quite some time and coming to OS X, that is not the case for me. There’s a lot of little things that “just don’t work” on my particular usage. Recently I’ve been given a [...]
Emacs identica-mode with edit buffer, context and favorites
September 14th, 2009
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I’ve added new features to identica-mode, the Emacs mode to interact with any Statusnet, an free open microblogging platform previously known as Laconi.ca. This time I got a patch submitted by Bradley M. Khun, who prefers to write his updates on a full buffer instead of the minibuffer. So he kindly send me a patch [...]
5 ways to promote Identi.ca and Open Microblogging over Twitter
August 3rd, 2009
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On the Free Software Foundation Latinamerica mailing list, there’s been a discussion about supporting Identi.ca and open microblogging and encourage quitting using twitter by setting the example. The topic about closed network services and its risks is a very important issue that I will cover on a later post with detail or you can read [...]
Emacs identica-mode version 0.7
July 15th, 2009
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I’ve finally arranged some time to publish a new version of Identica-mode for Emacs to easily track and post updates to any Laconica installation such as Identi.ca What’s new Added menu with most useful features Added re-dent (retweet) feature by pressing C-c C-m with pointer on status to re-dent User timeline method now prompts for [...]
