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Emacs 21

8th December 2001, 07:02 pm

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I installed Emacs 21 today — when using Debian it’s particularly easy, you just do apt-get install emacs21 :-) I was pleased to find out that Emacs 21 can coexist with Emacs 20. All my setting worked in the new version, and I could even read my mail and news without any problems.

The new Emacs looks different from earlier version — quite different in my opinion. The new version has a toolbar with little images you can click on, it has tooltips all over the place, and it supports inline images and proportional-width fonts. The menus have changed and they are now organized logically that before.

I don’t like the toolbar that much, and I’m tempted to turn off those tooltips. I saw that there is an option, that makes them appear in the minibuffer window instead. I have only used it for a day or so, but I haven’t found any bugs or missing features. Instead I’ve found a lot of new functionality and a lot of new exciting packages.

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I’m on the Internet!

2nd December 2001, 04:41 pm

After waiting for more than two months, I’ve finally on the Internet again — most of the time, that is… The connection is pretty fast when it works, but I’ve had a lot of problems talking to the DHCP server. This has been a general problem for everybody here at Skejbygaard Kollegiet, so it’s not my computer that’s to blame.

But I’ve now downloaded about 2250 emails from my inbox — most of them were from maillinglists. But there were some personal mails amoung them — I’ll answer everything as quickly as possible. I’m sorry that I disappeared from the face of the Internet without a warning. Two months is a long time, and I have several projects that need some attention now (PHP Weather for one…)

That’s it for now!

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