<p>I mentioned in my <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/04/08/unwelcome-surprise-homebrew-emacs-has-no-gui-after-os-x-mojave-update/">previous post</a> that I somehow had ended up with a non-working org2blog installation. My suspicion is that this was triggered by my pinning of the htmlize package to the “wrong” repo. I had it pinned to marmalade rather than melpa-stable, and marmalade had an old version of htmlize (1.39, from memory). The fact that marmalade is…
<p>I finally got around to upgrading my OS X installation from Mojave to High Sierra - my OS update schedule is usually based on the old pilot wisdom of “don’t fly the A model of anything”. As part of the upgrade, I ended up reinstalling all homebrew packages including Emacs to make sure I was all up to date. That proved to be a big mistake as I suddenly had a GUI-less Emacs. Of course I found the post on <a href="https://irreal.org/blog/?p=7506">Irreal</a> about the Emacs…
<p>Ben Simon has a post up on his blog describing how <a href="http://www.blogbyben.com/2018/04/a-little-scheme-setup-and-development.html">he set up a scheme development environment on his Galaxy S9 Android phone</a>. It was also an especially timely post as I had been eyeing a Mac Quadra with a Symbolics Lisp Machine extension card on eBay. As if we needed another reminder just how powerful current phones have become!</p>
<p>Saw the <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-05/msg00765.html">announcement</a> on on the GNU Emacs mailing list this morning. Much to my surprise, it’s also already available on <a href="https://brew.sh/">homebrew</a>. So my Mac is now sporting a new fetching version of Emacs as well :). I’ve been running the release candidate on several Linux machines already and was very happy with it, so upgrading my OS X install was pretty much a no brainer.</p>
<p>I’ve <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2016/12/13/converting-files-from-dos-to-unix-file-formats-using-emacs/">previously blogged</a> about using Emacs to convert line endings and use it as an alternative to the dos2unix/unix2dos tools. Using <em>set-buffer-file-coding-system</em> works well and has been my go-to conversion method.</p>
