Levels of Detail

“This is awesome”:http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/09/whats_so_difficult_1.html. And people wonder why Linux isn’t more popular as a desktop platform.

If you split your work between a mac and linux a lot, you may wish to try to have the same terminal font across the two. I like Monaco that comes by default on the Mac, and today I figured out how to use it on my Linux box at work too. (Disclaimer: you might […]

So it turns out all kinds of stuff fails when your locking calls fail.
Dovecot can’t create indexes of your mailboxes. It also spits out a IMAP warning about it, and mutt pauses a second to display this warning.
mutt can’t create its header cache without it, making the use of IMAP with large mailboxes pretty […]

After a long period of trial and error, I think I’ve finally chanced upon the best email solution for work. It turns out that, the solution follows the principle of using the best component for each task, and building a solution out of all the components — the so-called UNIX way.
Anyways, here’s what it breaks […]

So I spent a whole bunch of time writing a VBA script to do mew-style multi-folder re-filing of messages. It works, after a lot of headache and MSDN browsing, but it’s still un-ideal.
The main problem is that, each time you run the damn thing, you get multiple instances of the outlook security warning dialog popping […]

xemacs related mailing lists seem to mostly be filled with spam.
Feature-wise, it no longer has many advantages over emacs21. It still has a bit more guification, but that seems minor. Gnu emacs21 has all the X-y stuff (variable width fonts, embedded images in buffers, updated look)
Every email post, webpage, or piece of writing that tries […]

So mew has special variable call mew-refile-guess-alist which lets you control how ‘refiling’ works.. i.e. how to guess the target folder of the ‘refile’ operation.
Mew seems to, in general, offer a different way to read mail that comes from many lists… it works better if you have them all come to your inbox, read them […]

Why is there never a perfect piece of software.
Wanderlust almost all of what I want, but it has several annoying bugs/misfeatures:

It’s single threaded, so if it get’s stuck during an imap sync, the whole damn thing get’s stuck, the whole emacs session is stuck
It doesn’t have any way to tell you that there’s […]

For some reason ubuntu had a really old version of wanderlust (2.10 series, which is more than two years old). I guess no one updated the debian repository until very recently, so when ubuntu 5.10 came out, it was already too late to get included. Thankfully, the ubuntu universe pool has a .deb for the […]

Nerd alert. You’ve been warned.
So I’m back on emacs. I like emacs’ perforce integration better than I do vim’s.
I’ve also set up “mew” to read my imap mail. It works reasonably well, but one annoying limitation is that it can’t view imap folders with spaces in them!? But I’ve gotten mew to work with mew-ldap […]