Ode to Joy
(or, how Stewart is obviously very easily
pleased …)
At work, I use emacs over an ssh connection in a
Gnome terminal window. For months, I’ve complained that
it wouldn’t respond to mouse clicks, and thus cursor
movement was tiresome.
So today, on going back to a particularly large
project file, I wondered if anything could be done.
Googling for “emacs xterm mouse”, I discovered
xterm-mouse-mode. It does what it says
on the tin; gives you basic mouse control in an xterm.
I’m happy now. Almost too happy, in fact.
I also found out about
flyspell-mode today, an on-the-fly spelling checker for XEmacs. It does the
equivalent of the little wiggly red line under misspelt
words in Word, except not quite so in-your-face. Neato-mosquito.