ErgoEmacs what's new for 2011 May

[Xah Lee]

Spent about 6 hours making several updates. Here's recent news.

• several updates today. See it here http://code.google.com/p/ergoemacs/updates/list

• spent 2 hours to bring the version history up to date. You can read
a nice summary of what's new for the past 6 months in the ergoemacs/
_VERSION_HISTORY.txt file, or online here:
http://code.google.com/p/ergoemacs/source/browse/trunk/_VERSION_HISTORY.txt

• Recently my PC broke down. Spend the past ~15 days rebooting it
trying to fix it. Not much luck.
I blogged it here:
〈Windows Blue Screen of Death — a Account of My PC's Memory Failure〉
http://xahlee.org/mswin/blue_screen_of_death.html

• PC problem lead me to try Linux (booted from usb drive), which i
haven't done so for 10 years. ErgoEmacs runs fantastic on it, in fact
the start up time is 10 times faster. I was very much pleasantly
surprised by how emacs in linux is just so much smooth and i didn't
encounter any problems with ErgoEmacs.

Some detail here: 〈Emacs on Ubuntu Linux〉 http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_on_ubuntu_linux.html

I'll be releasing new ErgoEmacs lisp package tomorrow. (part of the
reason is that i need it myself. The xmsi-mode for math symbols input
wasn't in the last lisp package release.)

• David, any thoughts? I'm thinking we could also release a Windows
binary if you have time. We have to do something about keyfreq. (1)
decided whether to rename it as command-frequency. (2) if not, set it
up in init file and remove the command-frequency setup.

Xah

[David Capello]

Hi Xah,

I'm sorry to hear about your broken PC, it's a pain in the ass when that happen.

About the installer, I'm preparing a meta ErgoEmacs package (for Maintainer only)

to build the ErgoEmacs Setup from scratch. Basically you will be able to uncompress

the file, click three .bat files, and after a while, you have a fresh Setup.exe

(it's a big package, arround of 60MB using 7z with "ultra" compression,

because it includes MinGW). Also I've updated libpng/zlib dlls to see png

files in emacs 23.3. Also MSYS is updated.

In a couple of minutes I'll upload this package to Google Code project.

About keyfreq, I'll just remove command-frequency (as keyfreq does not

have backward compatibility with all functions of command-frequency).

2011/5/28 Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>

[David Capello]

Just in case, I've removed command-frequency right now

from init_load_packages:

http://code.google.com/p/ergoemacs/source/detail?r=671

So the frequency of commands now is saved in ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.keyfreq
(make a backup of your old command frequency files and copy it

to ~/.emacs.d/.emacs.keyfreq)

2011/5/28 David Capello <davidc...@gmail.com>

[Xah Lee]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 4:20 PM, David Capello <davidc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Xah,
> I'm sorry to hear about your broken PC, it's a pain in the ass when that
> happen.
> About the installer, I'm preparing a meta ErgoEmacs package (for Maintainer
> only)
> to build the ErgoEmacs Setup from scratch. Basically you will be able to
> uncompress
> the file, click three .bat files, and after a while, you have a fresh
> Setup.exe

that seems really fantastic.

> (it's a big package, arround of 60MB using 7z with "ultra" compression,
> because it includes MinGW). Also I've updated libpng/zlib dlls to see png
> files in emacs 23.3. Also MSYS is updated.

this is super cool.

> In a couple of minutes I'll upload this package to Google Code project.
> About keyfreq, I'll just remove command-frequency (as keyfreq does not
> have backward compatibility with all functions of command-frequency).

Great. I updated the _VERSION_HISTORY.txt file a bit for keyfreq. Let
me know if anything is incorrect, or just update the file.

thanks a lot!

Xah