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photos from today

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Hal Canary | Photos | 2010-11-13 15:02:43 UTC
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Milestone.

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For the first time in twenty-five years, I am not overweight. That is all.
weight = 188.9 lbs.

Hal Canary | bariatrics, Life | 2010-11-13 07:49:20 UTC
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using emacsclient

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Attention Emacs users. It took me a while to realize that new-style fonts can be enabled by adding this to the ~/.emacs file.

(set-face-attribute 'default
  nil :font "Monospace-11")

So here's how I set up the look of Emacs in my .emacs:

(require 'color-theme)
(color-theme-dark-laptop)
(set-scroll-bar-mode 'right)
(tool-bar-mode nil)
(menu-bar-mode nil)
(set-face-attribute 'default
  nil :font "Monospace-11")

And here's my emacs startup script:

#!/bin/sh
#DTPD#
# ${HOME}/bin/e
if test "$DISPLAY" ; then
  nohup /usr/bin/emacsclient \
    -a '' -n  "$@" \
    > /dev/null 2>&1 &
else
  exec /usr/bin/emacs "$@"
fi

This startes emacs in daemon mode if it's not already running (there's not a lot of harm in leaving a daemon going in the background all the time) and then the client tell the daemon to spawn a new window to open the files mentioned in the command-line arguments. The "nohup" part deparents the server so you don't get error messages hitting your console.

Hal Canary | Computers & Code | 2010-11-07 13:36:36 UTC
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