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12 years agodot/emacs: Use text-mode for `.topmsg' files.
Mark Wooding [Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:38:01 +0000 (10:38 +0000)]
dot/emacs: Use text-mode for `.topmsg' files.

12 years agobin/mdw-editor: Set TMPDIR from TMP if it's unset.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:48:43 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
bin/mdw-editor: Set TMPDIR from TMP if it's unset.

Setuid programs drop the TMPDIR environment variable.  This means that
emacsclient can't find the correct socket directory if it's started via
`sudo -e', which is annoying.  Fortunately, we have a copy of the
correct directory lying around, so we can use it to fix things up.

12 years agosetup: OpenBSD make(1) doesn't have `-C'.
Mark Wooding [Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:57:40 +0000 (12:57 +0000)]
setup: OpenBSD make(1) doesn't have `-C'.

Change directory the old-fashioned way.

12 years agosetup: Help finding locally installed libraries.
Mark Wooding [Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:22:32 +0000 (10:22 +0000)]
setup: Help finding locally installed libraries.

pkg-config isn't as clever as the old mLib-finding macro, so help it
out.

12 years agodot/gitconfig.in: Various cosmetic tweaks.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 5 Dec 2011 23:21:49 +0000 (23:21 +0000)]
dot/gitconfig.in: Various cosmetic tweaks.

  * Use RFC822 date format rather than the default in logs.

  * Decorate logs with ref names.

  * New alias for drawing a convenient commit graph.

12 years agodot/emacs: Different tweak for Python indent level.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 5 Dec 2011 13:49:26 +0000 (13:49 +0000)]
dot/emacs: Different tweak for Python indent level.

There appear to be two Python modes, and I'm not sure how they get
selected.

12 years agodot/emacs, el/dot-emacs.el: Javascript support
Mark Wooding [Sat, 3 Dec 2011 14:12:18 +0000 (14:12 +0000)]
dot/emacs, el/dot-emacs.el: Javascript support

12 years agodot/emacs: Trap a failure to find the `remember' package.
Mark Wooding [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:15:14 +0000 (19:15 +0000)]
dot/emacs: Trap a failure to find the `remember' package.

12 years agodot/bash_profile: Move establishment of TMPDIR until after PATH is set up.
Mark Wooding [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:14:32 +0000 (19:14 +0000)]
dot/bash_profile: Move establishment of TMPDIR until after PATH is set up.

Otherwise we can't find a locally installed copy of `tmpdir'.

12 years agodot/bashrc: Portability: use termcap if terminfo doesn't work.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:40:05 +0000 (14:40 +0100)]
dot/bashrc: Portability: use termcap if terminfo doesn't work.

Grumble grumble FreeBSD grumble.

12 years agohacks/ssh: Trivial formatting change.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:41:28 +0000 (22:41 +0000)]
hacks/ssh: Trivial formatting change.

12 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: More Perl keywords.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:41:04 +0000 (22:41 +0000)]
el/dot-emacs.el: More Perl keywords.

12 years agodot/emacs: Change email address style.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:38:16 +0000 (22:38 +0000)]
dot/emacs: Change email address style.

I think I lost this one.  Give up.

12 years agodot/gitconfig.in: Tweak email preferences.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:40:31 +0000 (13:40 +0000)]
dot/gitconfig.in: Tweak email preferences.

Also rearrange the substitution mechanism.  There's no point in checking
the gitignore preference if the gitignore file is tweakable anyway.

12 years agodot/mc-panels.ini: More useful default.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:41:13 +0000 (13:41 +0000)]
dot/mc-panels.ini: More useful default.

12 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'ponder/master'
Mark Wooding [Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:57:13 +0000 (17:57 +0000)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'ponder/master'

* ponder/master:
  dot/emacs: Fix awful calendar snafu.
  el/dot-emacs.el: Define org-mode variables to make Docbook output work.
  dot/e16-bindings: New bindings for fiddling with window opacity.

12 years agodot/emacs: Turn off warning about the change to message-mode.
Mark Wooding [Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:56:44 +0000 (17:56 +0000)]
dot/emacs: Turn off warning about the change to message-mode.

Also reformat that settings stanza.

12 years agodot/mailrc: Add some new aliases.
Mark Wooding [Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:56:30 +0000 (17:56 +0000)]
dot/mailrc: Add some new aliases.

12 years agodot/emacs: Fix awful calendar snafu.
Mark Wooding [Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:52:42 +0000 (17:52 +0000)]
dot/emacs: Fix awful calendar snafu.

Don't locally bind view-diary-entries-initially when showing the
calendar.  If you do, then, for some reason,
calendar-view-diary-initially-flag gets unbound, and then org-mode will
get confused and introduce a variable-alias loop.  This results in
Badness.

This bug took a little while to track down...

12 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Define org-mode variables to make Docbook output work.
Mark Wooding [Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:52:12 +0000 (17:52 +0000)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Define org-mode variables to make Docbook output work.

12 years agodot/e16-bindings: New bindings for fiddling with window opacity.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 08:34:48 +0000 (09:34 +0100)]
dot/e16-bindings: New bindings for fiddling with window opacity.

Surprisingly useful, though E is buggy about the initial value.

12 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'crybaby'
Mark Wooding [Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:56:41 +0000 (11:56 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'crybaby'

* crybaby:
  hacks/ssh: Pass the requested port to `ssh -Ocheck'.

12 years agodot/ercrc.el: Actually make ERC notice when it connects to chiark.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 16 Jul 2011 13:54:49 +0000 (14:54 +0100)]
dot/ercrc.el: Actually make ERC notice when it connects to chiark.

Surprisingly, everything works out despite going through an awful SSH
tunnel lash-up.

12 years agodot/lisp-init.lisp: Ignore shebang lines.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:22:22 +0000 (23:22 +0100)]
dot/lisp-init.lisp: Ignore shebang lines.

This makes it possible to load programs which were expecting to run
under CL-LAUNCH.

12 years agohacks/ssh: Pass the requested port to `ssh -Ocheck'.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:53:42 +0000 (14:53 +0100)]
hacks/ssh: Pass the requested port to `ssh -Ocheck'.

Otherwise it doesn't find the correct master socket.

12 years agohacks/ssh: Redirect the master's output and error.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 12:32:39 +0000 (13:32 +0100)]
hacks/ssh: Redirect the master's output and error.

Otherwise it inherits our streams, and something waiting from EOF from
us will become seriously disappointed.  It's not like the master has
anything especially interesting to say on stdout anyway.  The error
stream is captured into a logfile for later perusal.

Just stdout wasn't enough.

12 years agodot/mailrc: Some minor tweaks for use with GNU Mailutils.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 9 Jul 2011 13:24:03 +0000 (14:24 +0100)]
dot/mailrc: Some minor tweaks for use with GNU Mailutils.

12 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Distinctive highlighting for ellipses.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 4 Jul 2011 00:30:16 +0000 (01:30 +0100)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Distinctive highlighting for ellipses.

Now I can tell whether Emacs is hiding something or I actually typed a
bunch of dots...

12 years agoMerge remote-tracking branches 'distorted/master' and 'ponder/master'
Mark Wooding [Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:25:49 +0000 (14:25 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branches 'distorted/master' and 'ponder/master'

* distorted/master:
  bin/mdw-conf, dot/bashrc, setup: Portability fixes.

* ponder/master:
  dot/lisp-init.lisp: Make sure that ASDF is available.

12 years agobin/mdw-conf, dot/bashrc, setup: Portability fixes.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:21:58 +0000 (14:21 +0100)]
bin/mdw-conf, dot/bashrc, setup: Portability fixes.

12 years agodot/lisp-init.lisp: Make sure that ASDF is available.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:13:25 +0000 (11:13 +0100)]
dot/lisp-init.lisp: Make sure that ASDF is available.

The Debian Lisp packaging isn't providing ASDF by default any more, so
we must do it ourselves.

12 years agodot/tclshrc: Tcl configuration.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:17:09 +0000 (09:17 +0100)]
dot/tclshrc: Tcl configuration.

Currently just readline.

13 years agomdw.conf: Use `sudo' instead of `become'.
Mark Wooding [Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:01:14 +0000 (12:01 +0100)]
mdw.conf: Use `sudo' instead of `become'.

It's more standard, and `rdist' is less annoying than fiddling with key
distribution.

13 years agobin/mdw-build: Update archive location.
Mark Wooding [Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:58:10 +0000 (11:58 +0100)]
bin/mdw-build: Update archive location.

13 years agoMerge branch 'master' of vampire:etc/profile
Mark Wooding [Sun, 5 Jun 2011 10:47:36 +0000 (11:47 +0100)]
Merge branch 'master' of vampire:etc/profile

* 'master' of vampire:etc/profile:
  dot/xinitrc: Shut down the Gnome session properly on exit.
  dot/xinitrc: Fiddle with window manager selection.
  dot/xinitrc: Run an early user hook script.
  setup: Modify URL for the FTP repository.
  mdw.conf: Use rôle address for the default web cache.
  dot/bash_profile: Use `kbd_mode' to check for UTF-8 console.
  bin/sendmail-hack: Grim hack for Emacs to invoke sendmail.

13 years agodot/emacs: Fix the tramp hacking from last time.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 5 Jun 2011 10:47:18 +0000 (11:47 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Fix the tramp hacking from last time.

Seems that I botched it a bit and it tried to proxy local `sudo'
connections via SSH.  Seems better now.

13 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'crybaby'
Mark Wooding [Sun, 5 Jun 2011 01:44:21 +0000 (02:44 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'crybaby'

* crybaby:
  dot/emacs: Tramp hacking: use `sudo', and set up magic proxies.

13 years agodot/emacs: Tramp hacking: use `sudo', and set up magic proxies.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 5 Jun 2011 01:43:48 +0000 (02:43 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Tramp hacking: use `sudo', and set up magic proxies.

13 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'crybaby'
Mark Wooding [Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:22:57 +0000 (14:22 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'crybaby'

* crybaby:
  dot/bashrc: Fix `rootly' to make a shell on demand.
  dot/emacs: Use `sudo' for local editing.
  Gnome hacking: Introduce a custom session file.

13 years agodot/bashrc: Fix `rootly' to make a shell on demand.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 4 Jun 2011 13:15:22 +0000 (14:15 +0100)]
dot/bashrc: Fix `rootly' to make a shell on demand.

Annoyingly, `sudo' doesn't start a shell if you don't give it a command
to run.  So turn `rootly' into a shell function which does the right
thing for me.

13 years agodot/emacs: Use `sudo' for local editing.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 4 Jun 2011 12:57:27 +0000 (13:57 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Use `sudo' for local editing.

13 years agoGnome hacking: Introduce a custom session file.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 14 May 2011 13:21:36 +0000 (14:21 +0100)]
Gnome hacking: Introduce a custom session file.

The morons behind Gnome have decided that everyone must have a window
manager, and can't understand that someone might have started one up
already.  As a result, they flail about trying to start the abortion
known as Metacity, which immediately exits because E already has the
magic selection.

Kill this absurd behaviour.

13 years agodot/xinitrc: Shut down the Gnome session properly on exit.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 2 Jun 2011 15:00:20 +0000 (16:00 +0100)]
dot/xinitrc: Shut down the Gnome session properly on exit.

This seems kinder to the various random Gnomey bits of desktop.  I was
hoping that it would persuade Tracker to leave its databases in a good
state, but that doesn't seem to happen.  Oh, well.

13 years agodot/xinitrc: Fiddle with window manager selection.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 2 Jun 2011 14:58:55 +0000 (15:58 +0100)]
dot/xinitrc: Fiddle with window manager selection.

The name `enlightenment' is used by E17, which I definitely don't prefer
to E16 right now.  Compiz seems plausible, though not all of the eye
candy necessarily works on every server.

13 years agodot/xinitrc: Run an early user hook script.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 2 Jun 2011 14:57:38 +0000 (15:57 +0100)]
dot/xinitrc: Run an early user hook script.

I need this on ponder to set the screen resolution.  In particular, then,
it must be earlier than the xscsize(1) call.

13 years agoMerge branch 'master' of vampire:~mdw/etc/profile
Mark Wooding [Sun, 15 May 2011 11:38:45 +0000 (12:38 +0100)]
Merge branch 'master' of vampire:~mdw/etc/profile

* 'master' of vampire:~mdw/etc/profile:
  dot/bash*: Reformat.
  mc: Store configuration and arrange for linkage.

13 years agosetup: Modify URL for the FTP repository.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 15 May 2011 11:38:14 +0000 (12:38 +0100)]
setup: Modify URL for the FTP repository.

13 years agomdw.conf: Use rôle address for the default web cache.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 15 May 2011 11:37:38 +0000 (12:37 +0100)]
mdw.conf: Use rôle address for the default web cache.

13 years agoMerge remote-tracking branch 'crybaby'
Mark Wooding [Sun, 15 May 2011 11:35:09 +0000 (12:35 +0100)]
Merge remote-tracking branch 'crybaby'

* crybaby:
  dot/bash*: Reformat.
  mc: Store configuration and arrange for linkage.

13 years agodot/bash_profile: Use `kbd_mode' to check for UTF-8 console.
Mark Wooding [Fri, 13 May 2011 19:59:06 +0000 (20:59 +0100)]
dot/bash_profile: Use `kbd_mode' to check for UTF-8 console.

Unfortunately, `vt-is-UTF8' isn't always available.

13 years agodot/bash*: Reformat.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 8 May 2011 19:14:02 +0000 (20:14 +0100)]
dot/bash*: Reformat.

Some other changes:

  * Remove the NC_SITES setting, which is only relevant to nCipher: it
    should end up in a local tweak.

  * Drop the MANPATH setting, because it wasn't working anyway.  We can
    resurrect that later if we need to.

13 years agomc: Store configuration and arrange for linkage.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 8 May 2011 18:21:31 +0000 (19:21 +0100)]
mc: Store configuration and arrange for linkage.

13 years agobin/sendmail-hack: Grim hack for Emacs to invoke sendmail.
Mark Wooding [Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:38:10 +0000 (10:38 +0100)]
bin/sendmail-hack: Grim hack for Emacs to invoke sendmail.

Emacs gets upset by the LD_PRELOAD warning, issued because sendmail
(actually qmail-send in my case) is setuid.

13 years agodot/emacs: Persuade Message to use sendmail.
Mark Wooding [Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:52:41 +0000 (01:52 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Persuade Message to use sendmail.

For some reason I caught it trying to do something daft with Chrome.

13 years agoMerge branch 'master' of vampire:etc/profile
Mark Wooding [Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:51:32 +0000 (01:51 +0100)]
Merge branch 'master' of vampire:etc/profile

* 'master' of vampire:etc/profile:
  dot/ditz-config: Configuration for `ditz' bug tracker.
  el/dot-emacs.el: Load ERC configuration in advance.
  hacks/ssh: Add new hack for setting up background SSH master connections.
  bin/svnwrap: Fix unjustifiably stupid error.
  dot/ercrc.el: Common configuration for ERC.

13 years agodot/ditz-config: Configuration for `ditz' bug tracker.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:59:21 +0000 (16:59 +0000)]
dot/ditz-config: Configuration for `ditz' bug tracker.

13 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Load ERC configuration in advance.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 20 Dec 2010 14:16:28 +0000 (14:16 +0000)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Load ERC configuration in advance.

13 years agohacks/ssh: Add new hack for setting up background SSH master connections.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:14:17 +0000 (03:14 +0000)]
hacks/ssh: Add new hack for setting up background SSH master connections.

I don't really know why SSH doesn't do this by default; but it damned
well ought to.

13 years agobin/svnwrap: Fix unjustifiably stupid error.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:13:33 +0000 (03:13 +0000)]
bin/svnwrap: Fix unjustifiably stupid error.

13 years agodot/ercrc.el: Common configuration for ERC.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:13:01 +0000 (03:13 +0000)]
dot/ercrc.el: Common configuration for ERC.

13 years agoMerge branch 'master' of metalzone:etc/profile
Mark Wooding [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:37:43 +0000 (15:37 +0000)]
Merge branch 'master' of metalzone:etc/profile

* 'master' of metalzone:etc/profile:
  el/dot-emacs.el: New command for SSH terminal buffers.
  dot/emacs, el/Makefile: Random fixes from vampire.

13 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Some C indentation fixes.
Mark Wooding [Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:36:50 +0000 (15:36 +0000)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Some C indentation fixes.

These mainly affect K&R-style function definitions.  If anything else
changes, I may need to rethink.

13 years agoMerge remote branch 'ponder/master'
Mark Wooding [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:54:55 +0000 (16:54 +0000)]
Merge remote branch 'ponder/master'

* ponder/master:
  el/dot-emacs.el: New command for SSH terminal buffers.

13 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: New command for SSH terminal buffers.
Mark Wooding [Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:53:11 +0000 (16:53 +0000)]
el/dot-emacs.el: New command for SSH terminal buffers.

And some ugly hacking of `term-exec' to allow me to do this.

13 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Fix the eshell prompt algorithm.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:13:49 +0000 (14:13 +0000)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Fix the eshell prompt algorithm.

Misplaced parenthesis broke it.

13 years agodot/bashrc: Pass login flag to `rc' by default.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:12:30 +0000 (14:12 +0000)]
dot/bashrc: Pass login flag to `rc' by default.

This encourages it to read `~/.rcrc' on startup.

13 years agodot/emacs, el/Makefile: Random fixes from vampire.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:05:36 +0000 (11:05 +0100)]
dot/emacs, el/Makefile: Random fixes from vampire.

I can't, alas, remember what the motivation for these was.

13 years agodot/rcrc: Configuration for the Plan 9 shell.
Mark Wooding [Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:20:11 +0000 (13:20 +0100)]
dot/rcrc: Configuration for the Plan 9 shell.

This needs a login to make it actually work, which is a little
annoying.  I've added aliases appropriately.

13 years agodot/emacs: Tell Emacs about my dictionaries.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:53:12 +0000 (14:53 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Tell Emacs about my dictionaries.

Not quite sure why I had to do this here (ponder), because my other
installations seem happy.  Still, it doesn't seem to hurt.

13 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Twiddle `eshell' settings.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:52:06 +0000 (14:52 +0100)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Twiddle `eshell' settings.

  * Abbreviate the prompt, if possible.

  * Turn the aliases into real functions.  Seems slightly prettier.

13 years agodot/vimrc: Turn on mode-sensitive indentation, and tweak indent levels.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:49:55 +0000 (14:49 +0100)]
dot/vimrc: Turn on mode-sensitive indentation, and tweak indent levels.

Not that I use vim for anything.

13 years agodot/bash_profile: Different strategy for finding gnome-keyring-daemon.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:19:29 +0000 (23:19 +0100)]
dot/bash_profile: Different strategy for finding gnome-keyring-daemon.

If its environment variables exist and its socket is in the right place,
or we have a session bus and the keyring daemon is listening on it,
then start it up.

13 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Disable Erlang electricity.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:18:17 +0000 (23:18 +0100)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Disable Erlang electricity.

Electric insertions just wind me up wrong.

13 years agodot/putty-defaults: Don't scroll on output.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:17:48 +0000 (23:17 +0100)]
dot/putty-defaults: Don't scroll on output.

It's really annoying.

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'ponder'
Mark Wooding [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 20:25:21 +0000 (21:25 +0100)]
Merge remote branch 'ponder'

* ponder:
  dot/Xdefaults: Add more Xft settings.
  el/dot-emacs.el: Configure dired faces.
  el/dot-emacs.el: Don't turn on outline-minor-mode all the time.
  dot/emacs: Remove lots of minor-mode verbiage.

14 years agodot/emacs: Improve shell-mode detection of password prompts.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 18:32:51 +0000 (19:32 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Improve shell-mode detection of password prompts.

It's missing catacomb pixie prompts.

14 years agodot/Xdefaults: Add more Xft settings.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:57:17 +0000 (16:57 +0100)]
dot/Xdefaults: Add more Xft settings.

These probably don't do any good, but it's worth a try.

14 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Configure dired faces.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:56:10 +0000 (16:56 +0100)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Configure dired faces.

Colour directories and symlinks to match usual `ls' preferences.  Don't
highlight group-writable permissions.

It's a shame that we can't highlight other things like executable
files.  Oh, well.

14 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Don't turn on outline-minor-mode all the time.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:55:01 +0000 (16:55 +0100)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Don't turn on outline-minor-mode all the time.

Instead, only do it if hideshow isn't there.  This isn't completely
ideal, but it saves mode-line space, removes a largely pointless thing
from the menu bar, and works pretty well.

14 years agodot/emacs: Remove lots of minor-mode verbiage.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 3 Jun 2010 15:52:39 +0000 (16:52 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Remove lots of minor-mode verbiage.

Hack `minor-mode-alist' so that boring things take up less space (or
none at all) in the mode line.  This means that we stand a chance of
being able to see the function name if which-func is on.

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'crybaby'
Mark Wooding [Thu, 20 May 2010 13:26:24 +0000 (14:26 +0100)]
Merge remote branch 'crybaby'

* crybaby:
  dot/emacs: Turn off Senator again.
  el/dot-emacs.el: Don't use a fancy face for `which-func'.

14 years agodot/emacs: Turn off Senator again.
Mark Wooding [Wed, 19 May 2010 23:44:28 +0000 (00:44 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Turn off Senator again.

It's eating way more CPU than it ought to.

14 years agoel/dot-emacs.el: Don't use a fancy face for `which-func'.
Mark Wooding [Wed, 19 May 2010 23:43:47 +0000 (00:43 +0100)]
el/dot-emacs.el: Don't use a fancy face for `which-func'.

It ends up being invisible against non-selected modelines.

14 years agodot/gitconfig.in: Turn on `git rerere'.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 17 May 2010 23:24:51 +0000 (00:24 +0100)]
dot/gitconfig.in: Turn on `git rerere'.

14 years agodot/emacs, el/dot-emacs.el: Fix `split-window-horizontally'.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 13 May 2010 13:45:18 +0000 (14:45 +0100)]
dot/emacs, el/dot-emacs.el: Fix `split-window-horizontally'.

The standard version takes the space used for fringes and scroll bars
out of the space you request for the left window.  (But, oddly, if you
give a negative width, for the right window, then you get what you asked
for.)  This is annoying, so fix it.

Actually fixing (or even advising) `split-window-horizontally' is too
risky to compatibility, so I've invented a new function
`mdw-split-window-horizontally' which does the job right, and rebound
C-x 3 to use the new version.

14 years agodot/bash_profile: Don't start new gnome-keyring-daemon processes.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 10 May 2010 23:07:24 +0000 (00:07 +0100)]
dot/bash_profile: Don't start new gnome-keyring-daemon processes.

Be careful only to kick ones which are already running, by poking D-Bus
and seeing what happens.

14 years agoMerge remote branches 'ponder' and 'crybaby'
Mark Wooding [Thu, 6 May 2010 14:28:22 +0000 (15:28 +0100)]
Merge remote branches 'ponder' and 'crybaby'

* ponder:
  dot/gnus.el: Hack for closing the summary view.
  dot/bashrc: Minor options tweaks.

* crybaby:
  dot/bash_profile: Use gnome-keyring-daemon's SSH agent if available.

14 years agoMerge branch 'master' of git+ssh://metalzone.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/etc/profile
Mark Wooding [Wed, 5 May 2010 16:19:01 +0000 (17:19 +0100)]
Merge branch 'master' of git+ssh://metalzone.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/etc/profile

* 'master' of git+ssh://metalzone.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/etc/profile:
  dot/emacs: Set some calendar variables which don't seem to have values.

14 years agodot/gnus.el: Hack for closing the summary view.
Mark Wooding [Wed, 5 May 2010 14:25:19 +0000 (15:25 +0100)]
dot/gnus.el: Hack for closing the summary view.

The problem is that `q' and `c' don't delete the summary window when
both the summary and message windows are showing, so the group buffer
takes its place in the old message window, and some other buffer appears
where the summary was.

Fix it with some advice.  Hack hack.

14 years agodot/bashrc: Minor options tweaks.
Mark Wooding [Wed, 5 May 2010 14:23:12 +0000 (15:23 +0100)]
dot/bashrc: Minor options tweaks.

Enable `**' wildcards and GNU-style errors; omit things beginning with a
space from the history.

14 years agodot/emacs: Set some calendar variables which don't seem to have values.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 3 May 2010 01:08:00 +0000 (02:08 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Set some calendar variables which don't seem to have values.

Not entirely sure why the calendar stuff isn't giving these default
values.  Hey, ho.

14 years agodot/bash_profile: Use gnome-keyring-daemon's SSH agent if available.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 2 May 2010 19:58:34 +0000 (20:58 +0100)]
dot/bash_profile: Use gnome-keyring-daemon's SSH agent if available.

Quick check before trying to crank up our own agent.

14 years agoMerge branch 'master' of metalzone:etc/profile
Mark Wooding [Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:27:48 +0000 (00:27 +0100)]
Merge branch 'master' of metalzone:etc/profile

* 'master' of metalzone:etc/profile:
  dot/xinitrc: Punt a bunch of application startup stuff to `gnome-session'.
  setup, pulseaudio, git: Add PulseAudio configuration; substituted dotfiles.
  dot/emacs: Twiddle `{shell,comint}-file-name-chars'.
  bin/mdw-build: Insert missing space.

14 years agodot/xinitrc: Punt a bunch of application startup stuff to `gnome-session'.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:01:14 +0000 (21:01 +0100)]
dot/xinitrc: Punt a bunch of application startup stuff to `gnome-session'.

Realization: if I let it do its thing, I have less work to do.  It knows
more about funny infrastructural stuff than I do, and things like
`gkrellm' might not be installed everywhere.

14 years agoMerge remote branch 'ponder'
Mark Wooding [Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:32:29 +0000 (19:32 +0100)]
Merge remote branch 'ponder'

* ponder:
  setup, pulseaudio, git: Add PulseAudio configuration; substituted dotfiles.

14 years agosetup, pulseaudio, git: Add PulseAudio configuration; substituted dotfiles.
Mark Wooding [Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:30:30 +0000 (16:30 +0100)]
setup, pulseaudio, git: Add PulseAudio configuration; substituted dotfiles.

Add a notion of a `substituted dotfile', which is installed by applying
a simple sed(1) script to a skeleton rather than messing with symbolic
links.

Install some basic PulseAudio configuration.  Pulse needs this hacking
because it doesn't let us refer to our home directory without an absolute
pathname, which is a total nuisance.

Adopt .gitconfig under this scheme.  The source moves to dot/gitconfig.in
now.

14 years agodot/emacs: Twiddle `{shell,comint}-file-name-chars'.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:34:16 +0000 (20:34 +0100)]
dot/emacs: Twiddle `{shell,comint}-file-name-chars'.

At last, command completion works properly.

14 years agobin/mdw-build: Insert missing space.
Mark Wooding [Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:33:45 +0000 (20:33 +0100)]
bin/mdw-build: Insert missing space.

Purely cosmetic.

14 years agodot/xinitrc: Lower the beep volume.
Mark Wooding [Sun, 4 Apr 2010 12:17:42 +0000 (13:17 +0100)]
dot/xinitrc: Lower the beep volume.

14 years agodot/xinitrc: Fix whitespace crapness.
Mark Wooding [Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:24:18 +0000 (17:24 +0100)]
dot/xinitrc: Fix whitespace crapness.

Not sure how this crept in.