I use emacs.


{{{
;; Mail address
(apply 'string (mapcar '1- (append "mbzopsAhnbjm/dpn" nil)))
}}}

== About me ==
I'm an old casual emacs user, but a recent emacs convert.
I started using emacs more seriously when I started working on [[Vimpulse]],
that I don't maintain nor develop anymore, but always use.

Luckily it has found a better maintainer than me :-)

I am the author of [[Enotify]] and its Rspec/Rails/Watchr plugin, contained in the
[https://github.com/laynor/espectator espectator] ruby gem - the gem hosted on rubygems.org is actually named rspec-rails-watchr-emacs.
I'm using emacs both on windows 7 and linux.
I sometimes lurk on #emacs as //ale`//.
== Miscellaneous Emacs Configuration ==
=== Gnus + GMail on Windows (7) ===
Accessing GMail on Windows using [[Gnus]] can be a little tricky.
I had to google for hours to find a working configuration.
I use [http://www.cygwin.com/ Cygwin]'s openssl to access my inbox,
and [http://freefr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/msmtp/msmtp/1.4.20/msmtp-1.4.20-w32.zip msmtp]
to send messages through GMail's smtp server.
Here's my configuration:
==== ~/.gnus.el ====
{{{
(setq message-send-mail-function 'message-send-mail-with-sendmail)
(setq sendmail-program "msmtp.exe")
(setq message-sendmail-extra-arguments '("-a" "ale"))
(setq mail-host-address "gmail.com")
(setq user-full-name "Alessandro Piras")
(setq user-mail-address "username@gmail.com")
(setq mail-default-reply-to "username@gmail.com")

(load-library "nnimap")
(setq imap-ssl-program "c:/cygwin/bin/openssl.exe s_client -ssl3 -quiet -connect %s:%p")

(setq gnus-select-method '(nntp "news2.open-news-network.org"))

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nnimap "gmail"
                      (nnimap-address "imap.gmail.com")
                      (nnimap-server-port 993)
                      (nnimap-authinfo-file "~/.authinfo")
                      (nnimap-stream ssl)))

(add-to-list 'gnus-secondary-select-methods
             '(nntp "news.gmane.org"))
}}}
This is my authinfo file, where I store gnus authentication information:
==== ~/.authinfo ====
{{{
machine news2.open-news-network.org login username@gmail.com password nntppassword
machine imap.gmail.com login username@gmail.com password gmailpassword port 993
}}}
Msmtp needs a configuration file. The authentication information is stored there:
==== ~/msmtprc.txt ====
{{{
account ale
host smtp.gmail.com
tls on
tls_certcheck off
auth on
user username@gmail.com
password gmailpassword
port 587
logfile c:\users\ale\msmtplog.txt
}}}
=== Erc tips ===
I'm using [[EmacsW32]], version 24. So I don't know if this bug only arises for me, but
if autojoin is activated, I get an error about erc-autojoin-enable being undefined.
I solved the problem with an ugly kludge. I put this line at the beginning of my .emacs:
{{{
(defun erc-autojoin-enable (&rest args) (interactive) nil)
}}}
This is the rest of my erc-related configuration, minus the output of customize:
{{{
(load "~/.ercpass")
(require 'erc)
(require 'erc-join)
(require 'erc-services)
(erc-services-mode 1)
(setq erc-prompt-for-nickserv-password nil)

(setq erc-nick '("laynor" "laynor`"))

(setq erc-nickserv-passwords
      `((freenode (("laynor" . ,freenode-passwd-laynor)
		   ("laynor`" . ,freenode-passwd-laynor)))))
(defun erc-freenode-laynor ()
  (interactive)
  (erc :server "irc.freenode.net" :port 8000 :nick "laynor"))
}}}
The ~/.ercpass file contains a line like this one:
{{{
(setq freenode-passwd-laynor "myfreenodepassword")
}}}

=== Vimpulse tips ===
I configured some extra keys to get folding on [[Vimpulse]]. I don't really know if
this has been obsoleted by the current Vimpulse, but I still have it in my .emacs:
{{{
(define-key viper-vi-global-user-map (kbd "z M") 'hide-body)
(define-key viper-vi-global-user-map (kbd "z A") 'show-all)
(define-key viper-vi-global-user-map (kbd "z a") 'show-subtree)
(define-key viper-vi-global-user-map (kbd "z m") 'hide-subtree)
}}}
[new]
Just found out this has been obsoleted by the new Vimpulse.
=== FixmeMode tips ===
I use [[FixmeMode]] and love it. I would have liked some kind of TODO/FIXME comment tracking
like the one I get in Visual Studio, but I didn't find one, so I hacked some elisp code
that makes things easier for me. It searches for all the occurrences of fixme-mode's keywords
in all the open buffers whose major mode is the same as the current buffer, which
works nicely with [[Slime]]'s open-system functionality.
{{{
(require 'fixme-mode)
(defun get-same-mode-buffers ()
  "Get all the buffers having the same Major mode as the current
buffer"
  (interactive)
  (remove-if-not (lambda (buf)
		   (eql (with-current-buffer buf major-mode)
			major-mode))
		 (buffer-list)))

(defun fixme-occur ()
  "Finds all the occurrences of the fixme keywords in all buffers
having the same major mode as the current buffer"
  (interactive)
  (multi-occur (get-same-mode-buffers)
	       fixme-keyword-re-string))
(fixme-mode 1)
}}}
=== Slime tips ===
In the Slime REPL, filename completion on windows didn't work nicely. Hitting tab completed
the filename inserting the absolute path, and since I had spaces inside the filename, I only
got partial completion and couldn't hit tab anymore to complete the full filename.
I found this in the [http://common-lisp.net/project/lispbox/ lispbox] sourcecode:
{{{
(defun slime-maybe-complete-as-filename ()
  "If point is at a string starting with \", complete it as filename.
Return nil iff if point is not at filename."
  (if (save-excursion (re-search-backward "\"[^ \t\n]+\\=" nil t))
      (let ((comint-completion-addsuffix '("/" . "\"")))
        (if slime-when-complete-filename-expand
            (comint-replace-by-expanded-filename)
          (comint-dynamic-complete-as-filename))
        t)
    nil))
}}}
This will allow completion of relative pathnames.
[new]
Nice to see some <tt>[[vimpulse.el]]</tt> updates. How about posting them on the [[vimpulse|discussion page for vimpulse]]?

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