<p>I haven’t used Ubuntu much recently after switching several systems to Manjaro, but had to set up a laptop with XUbuntu 17.04. That came with Emacs 24.5 as the default emacs package, and as skeeto pointed out in the comments, with a separate emacs25 package for Emacs 25.1. I tend to run the latest release Emacs everywhere out of habit, so I revisited my build instructions to build a current Emacs on Ubuntu and its derivates. The good news is that in thanks to some changes in the Emacs…
<p>Turns out I made some unnecessary “work” for myself when I tried to <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/05/07/extending-inf-mongo-to-support-scrolling-through-command-history/">add support for command history to inf-mongo</a>. As Mickey over at Mastering Emacs points out in a blog post, comint mode already comes with <em>M-n</em> and <em>M-p</em> mapped to <em>comint-next-input</em> and <em>comint-previous-input</em>. And of course they work in <a…
<p>I’m spending a lot of time in the MongoDB shell at the moment, so of course I went to see if someone had built an Emacs mode to support the MongoDB shell. Google very quickly pointed me at <a href="https://github.com/endofunky/inf-mongo">endofunky’s inf-mongo mode</a>, which implements a basic shell interaction mode with MongoDB using comint. We have a winner, well, almost. The mode does exactly what it says on the tin, but I wanted a little more, namely being able to scroll…
<p>I used XEmacs quite a lot in the 2000s before I switched back to the more stable GNU Emacs. That was back then before GNU Emacs offered a stable official Windows build when XEmacs did, and at the time I was doing a lot of Windows development.</p>
<p>I’ve been a Xubuntu user for years after switching from OpenSuse. I liked its simplicity and the fact that it just worked out of the box, but I was getting more and more disappointed with Ubuntu packages being out of date, sorry, stable. Having to rebuild a bunch of packages on every install was getting a little old. Well, they did provide material for all those “build XXX on Ubuntu” posts. Recently I’ve been playing with <a href="https://manjaro.org/">Manjaro…
