Improving the Emacs integration in Windows

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I was trying to make Windows a little more Emacs-friendly (or was it the other way around?). First step was to enable the emacs server in my .emacs so I could make use of Emacs for quick and dirty editing tasks that require an editor better than Notepad but where the average Emacs startup time was just a little too long to make Emacs a viable alternative. A typical example would be to use Emacs as the editor for commit messages in Mercurial.

The stuff you find when you’re moving home

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Happy New Year to all readers. I’ve been blogging even less recently as we’ve just moved house but unpacking all the boxes meant that I came across one of my favourite magazines: German readers of this blog (if are there any) might recognise the magazine - it’s the first issue of “c’t”, a magazine that is still going on strong almost thirty years later. The issue above is dated November/December 1983 and has moved house (and continents) with me a fair number of times.