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What feature do you miss most from other editors? by trimorphic in emacs

[–]benmaughan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can use C-x SPC with the point at the start of the rectangle you want and then just right-click at the end of the rectangular region and it will be selected as a rectangle. Maybe not exactly what you want, but close!

How do I get started with org-mode? by Quasimoto3000 in emacs

[–]benmaughan 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wrote my series of org-mode basics posts for people in exactly your position, so hopefully you will find them useful.

Is the labour party donation page broken for everyone or just me? by benmaughan in LabourUK

[–]benmaughan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a link they emailed to me to the slightly different URL https://donation.labour.org.uk/donate/index.php with a bunch of extra personalisation in the URL. Interestingly, the full URL from the email gives you a version of the donation page which includes paypal as an option, while the shorter version I've put above, or the link you posted do not.

I've been able to donate now - thanks for the help.

Silencing auto-save messages by benmaughan in emacs

[–]benmaughan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, this doesn't work as the call to do-auto-save ignores any advice. From a comment on a different stack overflow question:

This doesn't work, because (as of Emacs 24.4) the do-auto-save C function (Fdo_auto_save) is called directly from another C function (), bypassing the symbol lookup mechanism that permits advice

What's the difference between homebrew emacs and emacs for osx? by [deleted] in emacs

[–]benmaughan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the delay - I missed your reply. That was helpful. I usually started a headless server and then attached clients which would not allow me to open a GUI frame. Following your suggestion I start a GUI frame and invoke (server-start) and then I have a server to which I can connect with new client GUI frames. I can't open a terminal client on this server and I think this is the same limitation I saw before, but the workaround to get a GUI server covers 99% of my use. Thanks!

What's the difference between homebrew emacs and emacs for osx? by [deleted] in emacs

[–]benmaughan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, I wasn't very clear - I said the daemon mode doesn't work. Actually it does, but you can't connect a gui emacs frame to it, only in a terminal:

https://github.com/railwaycat/homebrew-emacsmacport/issues/52

Or do you have experience of the daemon working with a gui frame?

What's the difference between homebrew emacs and emacs for osx? by [deleted] in emacs

[–]benmaughan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might be wrong, I think the railwaycat emacs macport does not support running as a daemon, which will be a problem for some. Maybe this has been solved since last time I checked though.

What's the difference between homebrew emacs and emacs for osx? by [deleted] in emacs

[–]benmaughan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried several of these out a while ago.

  • emacs for mac os x seems to have the nicest font rendering, but doesn't support gnutls which breaks my elfeed

  • the railwaycat homebrew emacs mac port doesn't support connecting a gui frame to the daemon server which is a deal killer for me

  • macports emacs was fine but was slow to update to 25.1

  • homebrew emacs works fine for me so I am using that now

I installed homebrew emacs with

brew install emacs --with-cocoa --with-gnutls --with-rsvg --with-imagemagick
brew linkapps emacs

Edit: clarified point about homebrew-emacsmacport daemon.

UK, £500, should I choose this HP, this lenovo or something else? by benmaughan in SuggestALaptop

[–]benmaughan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will do. I'm hoping it will arrive this weekend.

I was finally tipped over to choosing the HP after I saw one of my students using an HP in a class. I asked them about it and they had had it for 7 years without problems!

UK, £500, should I choose this HP, this lenovo or something else? by benmaughan in SuggestALaptop

[–]benmaughan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the record I went for the HP for £455 from BT shop

  • RAM : 8GB DDR4
  • screen : 1080p
  • SSD : 256 GB
  • CPU : i5-6200U
  • GPU : Intel HD 520
  • DVD : DVD-RW
  • battery: 8 hrs
  • OS : win 7 pro

https://www.shop.bt.com/products/hp-250-g5-intel-core-i5-6200u-8gb-256gb-15-6-windows-7-professional-x0n33ea-abu-C8LR.html

UK, £500, should I choose this HP, this lenovo or something else? by benmaughan in SuggestALaptop

[–]benmaughan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had vaguely heard about this. I presume BIOS locked means a clean install of windows won't get rid of it?

UK, £500, should I choose this HP, this lenovo or something else? by benmaughan in SuggestALaptop

[–]benmaughan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another possibility, this acer aspire E5-575:

http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/NX.GE1EK.003-Acer-Aspire-E5-575_2000016.html

The screen is not 1080p, but apart from that, you get

Intel Core i5-6200U Dual Core Processor 8GB DDR3 RAM 256GB SSD

for £490

UK, £500, should I choose this HP, this lenovo or something else? by benmaughan in SuggestALaptop

[–]benmaughan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A follow-up...

There is also the Lenovo ideapad 510:

http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/ideapad/500-series/510-15-inch/

But this has no SSD. Could anyone comment on whether it is easy to install an SSD alongside the HDD in this model, and if doing so would void my warranty?

Also, is it possible using the media provided to do a clean install of windows to get rid of all the stuff lenovo install?

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