The latest Nadja album, from the latest mega-package from Norman Records.
One Touch Maintainin’
Emacs gets a lot of very nice, but quite simple patches that take quite a lot of keystrokes to process. It’s hard on the fingers, and you always forget various bits.
So I wondered how simple it could be, and hacked up this workflow tonight.
You start in the debbugs-gnu buffer, as always, narrowed down to the patches with `C-u / patch’ and perhaps an `x’.
Select a likely message with `RET’.
Then the fun begins with the new `M-m’ command. It determines whether the patch is in the MIME attachments or just included in the message, applies it, and displays the diffs and possibly any rejected hunks. It also does a `compile’ in the lisp directory so that we see that things are OK.
Everthing is hunky dory, so we just hit `M-m’ again to go to the changed file.
Here we can imagine that we do some clean-up, but this patch is perfect, so we just hit `M-m’ again. This pops us into the ChangeLog with the correct user name, and the bug number appended. If the user has never had any non-“tiny change” code in Emacs before, “(tiny change)” is appended automatically.
But there’s one non-tiny change from this user before, so no (tiny change), and we just type in an entry.
Then `M-m’. This pops us to the top-level checkin buffer, filled out with the right data.
And then just type in a summary and `C-c C-c’, and you’re done.
Ok, it’s not a one click solution, but it’s better than… doing all this by hand.
Or using a web browser.
The Best Albums of 2014
It’s that time of year, and Emacs has decreed (based on how many times I played each album) what the best ones are. I’ve played a lot of old, old music this year, so the recent purchases haven’t gotten that much play…
But these are the 15 bestest albums released in 2014.
And these are the 15 bestest albums that I bought in 2014, never mind what year they were released:
My New Home Decorating Blog
I’ve got a lot of thingamabobs that need charging now and then. But rooting out the adapters and finding a vacant wall socket is boring, so I thought I’d make a permanent charging station.
Finding a power strip that you can plug in all those wall warts is a bit of a challenge, because the adapters are often so big that you can’t place two next to each other.
But then I found this wonder:
In addition to having 12 plugs, three each on each side, it also has a convenient on/off button, so that I can switch all the adapters completely off, so they don’t even leech a single mW while not in use.
And it fits nicely into one of these Ikea book cases (with a door to hide the ugly).
That was today’s home decorating tip.