Phil's Blog

Hi,

I'm not a vi / vim user, but I recognise that it is a very powerful text editor. So I have deciced to write a post about vim / vi. I will post here any useful URL for anyone who wants to use VI / VIM, and of course, some link to customize emacs ;)

1.continue to use vim, forget about learning emacs
2.How emacs keeps replacing my tools at work
3.w3m as a text browser inside emacs
4.w3m and gnus for emacs: just the mind of some user about that

Labels: emacs, gnus, text browser, vi, vim, w3m

Hi foxes!

I met some friends this week, and during discussion around web browsers, one of my friend told me that he is using vimperator. He explained to us that is helps him to save time, because everything is VI binding (he is a vi-fan boy).

So, back to home, I looked for the same software, but with emacs key binding. And there is a webbrowser based on Gecko rendering engine using extensively emacs binding : Conkeror (with a "C").

Additionnaly, I found some interesting web browsers like :
1. surf
2. jumanji
3. vimprobable
4. a list of lightweight applications on linux, macosx, win32

For 2 days I'm using Conkeror, and the rendering is maybe slower than using opera 11.00 / build 1156 for windows XP, presto 2.7.62; but navigating through multiple tabs or inside a webpage is great. When you are used to have many opened tabs (like 20+), you can be more productive with such tools, using only keystrokes.

My Conkeror version is 0.9.3, with xulrunner version 1.9.2.13. I have added basic plugins from mozilla addons like : noscript, flashblock, flashgot (to use orbit downloader), adblock plus.

An idea to replace adblock plugin is to use privoxy

EDIT: January 9th 2011
You can use these local proxies to remove ads / add adblocks feature:
1. privoxy
2. bfilter, include a Heuristic Flash analyzer.
3. tinyproxy

And links to convert the Easylist (provided by AdBlock Plus plugin) to :
1.privoxy
2. comments about the script just above
3.bfilter

You can read the maemo wiki about that.

EDIT: January 12th 2011
some conkeror customisation like enabling the url history management.

Have a look on them ;)

Labels: adblock, bfilter, chrome, conkeror, emacs, firefox, gecko, opera, presto, privoxy, proxy, surf, vi, vimperator, web filtre, web proxy, xulrunner

Hi all,

I have learnt how to use Emacs when I was a student in my engineering school. Since that day, I have always work with emacs, on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows computers.

Today, I was looking ahead a way to boost my day life with Emacs at work. Yes, I'm using emacs at work as main text editor. As an embedded engineer, I'm coding in C ans assembly with Emacs, using IDE like Keil only for compiling and debugging.

So, to improve Emacs, I have found some wounderful modules :
* CEDET
* ECB

You may need to get some additionnal information about emacs installation / configuration on Windows. So, go on the emacs installation page.

Some additional links:
* Basic types on Emacs, etags definition.
* very good Emacs shortcut reminder.
* Emacs Tuto 2.
* how to use Ebrowse the native C/C++ browser in emacs.
* a blog around emacs and software developement.
* a lisp cookbook for emacs
* list of emacs plugins
* MAGIT, a GIT extension for emacs
* browsing C sorce code with Emacs

Labels: business class, c++, cedet, ecb, eclipse, emacs, etags, IDE, keil, tags, text editor, vi, vimperator