Recently, I bought an Acer Extensa 5235, and I must say: regarding the price tag, it's a really good notebook. Ubuntu 10.04 is running fine and I only had to tweak a few little things (controlling the brightness is a bit of a hassle; I had to manually bind keys to call xbacklight).

(Maybe the following already exists - if so, please let me know in the comments.)

In my last post, I described how to setup weblogger.el with Drupal. Since I love to write posts like this with org (see this posting for details on how you can do this), I wrote myself a little helper function to directly export an org file to a weblogger entry:

I just found out you can easily post Drupal blog entries from within Emacs by using the wonderful 'weblogger.el'. Here's what you have to do:

• Enable the 'Blog API' module in your Drupal installation and configure permissions and the blog types which should be accessible via XML-RPC.

First off, there's now a new CEDET branch in Emacs CVS, which you can check out by using

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co -r cedet-branch emacs

So it seems that CEDET really will be part of Emacs 23.2. Don't expect this branch to work right away, but it would be good if experienced CEDET users could check it out and report issues on emacs-devel.

We're on the brink of the Emacs 23.1 release, so it's about time to look at the new stuff 23.2 will have… One major thing that is planned is the merging of CEDET into Emacs. While CEDET in itself is great stuff already, it will also include some general new packages it heavily depends on and which will bring some interesting new concepts to programming in Emacs Lisp. Also, understanding these packages is important if you'd like to start hacking CEDET yourself.

On (ding), David Abrahams suggested to have a Group buffer with abbreviated group names like this:

         0: gmane.emacs.gnus.user
         0:   .  .  .announce
         0:   .  .w3m
         0:   .  .devel
         0:   .  .bugs
         0:   .mail.getmail.announce
         0:   .  .mairix.user
         0:   .linux.debian.user.security.announce
         0: de.comm.software.gnus

which I found immediately appealing.

OK, it has happened - one of the domains I frequently write mails under has published a SPF record, so I cannot post through my own mail server anymore (well, I can, but I have a good chance the mail will not be accepted or be flagged as spam).

There are already dozens of functions in Gnus which do all kinds of stuff with article display , my favourite being gnus-summary-morse-message, which is incredibly helpful if you regularly receive messages in morse code.

I previously posted a small Emacs script to send a mail with upcoming events from the Emacs calendar. I used the Emacs calendar for years, but now I think I need something a bit more powerful, so I'm slowly migrating to org-mode. Since I like to get regular reminders for upcoming events, I adapted the previous script to use org-agenda: