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Ubuntu, in all its helpfulness, has a feature that tries to guess what you mean when you type commands at the bash prompt. If you type a command that's found, it runs it, of course. If you type a command that it can't find, it takes a moment to search available packages for install and suggest what you might do to make that command available. It sometimes looks like this: $ foo No command 'foo' found, did you mean: Command 'xoo' from package 'xoo' (universe) Command 'fop' from package 'fop' (universe) Command 'fox' from package 'objcryst-fox' (universe) Command 'zoo' from package 'zoo' (universe) Command 'goo' from package 'goo' (universe) foo: command not found It's great when you have a new system and you haven't yet installed everything you need. Type emacs before emacs has been installed, and it will helpfully tell you the exact command to use to install it. After a...

A while ago I decided to start maintaining my .emacs file under revision control. I picked git because it seemed like the cool thing to do. I put it on gitorious so that I could easily sync it with my home and work machines, and it was public in the off chance that it might help out some other emacs user. Today I converted it from git to mercurial, because for some reason hg incoming is more intuitive and easier for me to remember than git fetch && git log ..origin/master Maybe I'm weird that way. Anyway, the new repo is on bitbucket . That is all.

My Mac let's me use emacs keyboard shortcuts everywhere. I'm really sad that I don't get that in Linux. How the universe ever got into this state is beyond my comprehension. Mail.App has gotten me hooked on emacs keybindings when typing emails especially. The solution in Linux, it turns out, is to just use emacs. I already have It's All Text for Firefox, with emacsclient as the editor. I just found External Editor for Thunderbird, with emacsclient as the editor and tbemail-mode for extra goodness. I think that'll do.