{"id":92,"date":"2003-11-12T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-09-07T12:10:11","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T16:10:11","slug":"ode-to-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/12\/ode-to-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(or, how Stewart is obviously <em>very<\/em> easily pleased &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>At work, I use emacs over an ssh connection in a Gnome terminal window. For months, I&#8217;ve complained that it wouldn&#8217;t respond to mouse clicks, and thus cursor movement was tiresome.<\/p>\n<p>So today, on going back to a particularly large project file, I wondered if anything could be done. Googling for &#8220;emacs xterm mouse&#8221;, I discovered<strong> xterm-mouse-mode<\/strong>. It does what it says on the tin; gives you basic mouse control in an xterm. I&#8217;m happy now. Almost too happy, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>I also found out about<strong> flyspell-mode<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(or, how Stewart is obviously very easily pleased &#8230;) At work, I use emacs over an ssh connection in a Gnome terminal window. For months, I&#8217;ve complained that it wouldn&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[815,1630],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-general","tag-emacs","tag-xterm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}