EmacsWiki: Michael Paulukonis (original) (raw)

Michael Paulukonis often refers to himself in the third person. He is also known as (the) Other Michael. Unsurprisingly for somebody who has a user-page in this wiki, he uses Emacs.

But only since the summer of 2007, and mainly on Windows.

He can also be found online at http://michaelpaulukonis.com/ and http://www.xradiograph.com/Emacs

He’s a member of the FSF – and you should be, too (especially if you use Emacs) !

Projects

TODOs

• look at MiniMap
• look at PrintWithWebBrowser, which cites browse-url-of-file
  • page needs cleanup
  • mentions some functions I’d like to know
• look at WikiModes
• CSS
  • look into darkstrap
  • look into variant on wikipedia css – I like how the layout works, just not the stark-white fluorscently-lit colors (it’s like a website at walmart)
  • reset CSS
• whee! games! I didn’t know most of these existed. As if I’d have the time….
• do git from w/in Emacs?
  • get list of pages, incl. GitCommitMode
  • Magit
• look at EmacsScreencasts
• look at GuileEmacs
• look at EmacsPortableApp
• opening and closing frames.
  • seriously. Why have you been missing out this whole time?!?!?
  • C-x 5 2 new frame
  • CategoryFrames
  • Frame
• EmacsSuperCollider
  • might finally start working in SC
  • Isn’t the prefix “Emacs” redundant?

DropBox

• look at DropBox notes – implement, test, and update page
• I’ve been using DropBox for years, and Emacs, and never investigate the full potential
• I believe I saw something about TODOs in Emacs and dropbox in the soi-distant past….
• my notes @ http://www.xradiograph.com/Programming/DropBox
• and this cryptic, pregnant tweet

deftheme

Theme handling system

deftheme is the theme-handling system introduced in Emacs 23, and enhanced in Emacs 24. As such, it is something of a replacement for ColorTheme.

Emacs 24 finally introduced a new standard way of dealing with color themes (based on Emacs’s built-in customize facility). While it doesn’t have a proper name (as far as I know) it’s commonly referred to as the deftheme facility, since deftheme is the name of the macro you’d use to create such a theme. -source

provided themes

By default Emacs24 comes with several themes.

Adding new themes

You can add more…. somehow….

Switching Themes

• Switching themes does not roll-back changes applied in a theme. You need to disable the current (or any previously applied) themes to have a blank slate.
• order matters

See Also

• Further information at http://batsov.com/articles/2012/02/19/color-theming-in-emacs-reloaded/
• http://emacsfodder.github.io/blog/notes-on-deftheme/
• http://emacsredux.com/blog/2013/08/21/color-themes-redux/ where he’s still calling it deftheme in late 2013.

standalone page

• This was its own page for a while, but selected elements were merged into the page for the ColorTheme package.
  • but added were some notes on how deftheme (“Custom Themes”) differed from ColorTheme (can’t roll-back changes applied in deftheme for instance).
  • Doesn’t make sense to me, since ColorTheme is a specific package, and the notes on using deftheme have nothing to do with that package.

re-org(ing) my init-file(s)

• IN-PROGRESS as of 2013.07
  * see https://github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/dot-emacs
• some things to stare at
  • https://github.com/ghoseb/dotemacs and https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live
  • http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3968124/sacha-emacs.html
  • http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/DL/elisp/dot-emacs/
    * I like the message-dumping

tetris

• I wanted to tweak tetris. But most things appear to be untweakable without tweaking all over the place. tsk tsk.
• so, see https://github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/tetris.el - which as of 2013.07.18 is the original version with no tweaks.
• http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/31390/is-it-possible-to-change-the-keyboard-controls-in-emacs-tetris

OrgMode

• learning and using….
• reading:
  • http://swaroopch.com/2013/01/16/orgmode/
• writing
  • http://www.xradiograph.com/Emacs/OrgMode
  • http://www.xradiograph.com/Emacs/Journal

pmwiki-mode

• hoping to work on pmwiki-mode
• started up an org/repo @ https://github.com/emacs-pmwiki-mode
• need to start an Emacswiki page for it….

journal

• Journal - I use a modified version of this.
  • created a repo @ https://github.com/MichaelPaulukonis/fisler-journal.el
    * contains original code as found @ Journal and my modifications
  • TODO: Clean up code, prefix-space (“namespace”) the code, and fix the issues
  • I’m migrating over to use org-mode, but I used Journal for about 6 years; I have a lot of fondness for it
  • and it’s influenced how I want to work with org-mode (which may not be how I should work with org-mode)

emacs-wiki work

• working on documentation within CategoryJavaScript
  • see my random blog notes on emacs.js

Gravatar from Emacs

The image at top is my Gravatar. It’s a useful service that ties an email address to an image, so if someone gives you an email you can maybe find a picture of them.

You need to hash the email to generate the url though, here’s how in EmacsLisp:

(print (md5 (downcase "me@mail.com")) (current-buffer))

and the markup:

portrait:http://gravatar.com/avatar/2c387befb1ee085fd6706bd59efa042f

Once you define it with that markup, it will now display w/in the wiki when your user-name is referenced in certain contexts For example: MichaelPaulukonis and [MichaelPaulukonis] do not render, but [new:MichaelPaulukonis:2013-05-13 13:28 UTC] is displaying, but [new:MichaelPaulukonis 2013-06-11 13:54 UTC] (colon replaced with space) is NOT displaying.

Can’t find any notes on this, yet, other than what I blatantly stole from NicFerrier.

Packages/pages/things I like

• Reference Sheet by Aaron Hawley
• ElScreen
• ELPA
• Js2Mode and CategoryJavaScript - where’s he trying to add some signal to the noise
• string-fns.el via Noah Friedman
• extraedit.el
• DiredPlus
• NxmlModeForXHTML
• CategoryWThirtyTwo since I primarily use Windows. :::sigh:::
• Journal - I use a modified version of this.
  • see also: JournalMode - not the same thing. differences?

Packages I used to like

• emacs-w3m
  • I don’t have anything against w3m, I just don’t use it anymore. too much Javascript in my world….

Packages, Pages, and things I am thinking about liking

• BookmarkPlus
• a way to get nxml mode to be happy with html5
• a NodeJs mode that gives me auto-completion on the REPL within Emacs, of course
• SkeletonMode
• SachaChua - in particular, the link about re-orging the .emacs file

Navigation to places I want to remember

• wiki work
  • EmacsWikiContent - list of some TODOs for the wiki
  • pages tagged with Category Needs Attention
• EmacsWikiSuggestions
• CategoryEmacsWikiSite
• News
• Problems
• WikiQuestions
• HowTo
• Editing
  • HowToEdit
  • TextFormattingRules
  • TextFormattingRules#actions
  • Oddmuse:Text_Formatting_Rules#Transclusion_Rules
  • InterMap
• PageRedirection
• OpenQuestions

every contribution I have ever made to this wiki

• as OtherMichael
• as MichaelPaulukonis

wiki thoughts

• MissionStatement MissionRant and WikEmacs
  • Is there more stuff that xrefs (or relates to) the above
• http://www.xradiograph.com/Programming.WikiAsConcept

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