fsf@hostux.social source 4  3  mastodon

Assigning your copyright to the Free Software Foundation helps us defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Alvaro Gonzalez Sotillo and Levin Du for assigning their copyright to the FSF!

mw@fosstodon.org source 4  2  mastodon

How awesome is this? I got an magic from my wife! (Magic: The mug is completely black, and only when a hot beverage is poured into it do the white borders and the logo appear). An essential for my ! 😁 :emacs:

redstarfish@social.linux.pizza source 3  3  mastodon

How to open specific Emacs programs directly without opening emacs and then opening them.

For example I want to open dired without opening emacs first, what command should I use?

Also Emacs is running as Deamon in background.

wasamasa@lonely.town source 3  0  mastodon

I'm looking into some history and searching emacs-devel online is tedious, so I bit the bullet and started fetching a searchable copy:

- lists.gnu.org/archive/mbox/ema has mbox files starting from 2000, I've downloaded them with `wget --mirror` and got 1.31G of files.
- mbox is a terrible format, mblaze and friends support maildir instead.
- Therefore I've started a conversion job with `mdeliver -M maildir < mailbox/*` into a maildir created with `mmkdir maildir`, let's see how long that will take and how many email files we're speaking of...