Moving innovations

For the very few people who use my i-mode RSS reader, it’s back online.

This weekend I’ve committed two experimental ebuilds to the emacs overlay. I’d be happy to get feedback on them, so if you are using XEmacs and feeling adventurous, head on over to the overlay and give things a whirl.

First up is an ebuild for XEmacs 21.5.28, the latest upstream beta version. This version is not ready yet for general consumption but it does have some nice new features that may still be worth it. Personally I’m still fighting the new Xft-based font system, so for real work I’m using 21.4, but otherwise 21.5 appears to be as stable as 21.4 is. Note that 21.5 is not slotted, so it will remove 21.4 from your system. Also note that 21.5 bytecode is not fully backwards compatible with 21.4, so you’ll have to take care in downgrading. I don’t expect this ebuild to be moved to the main tree any time soon.

For those of you doing Gentoo development work with XEmacs I am happy to introduce the app-xemacs/gentoo-syntax package (formerly known as ebuild-mode, but never released for XEmacs). It should work fine with both 21.4 and 21.5, and again I’d love to get feedback on it. Many thanks to the Emacs herd for all their work on this. After I’ve gotten some feedback on this I will move it to the main tree.

My broadband is up in my new home. Dialup didn’t seem so bad, but now I really notice the difference! More later, but here’s already a picture taken from my new study.

The sunset seen from the study in my new house. Got to love this view!