Dryice Liu’s Blog

The JED editor

Well this is not exactly Emacs. But Emacs related.
I will always like a lightweight Emacs clone. Emacsclient is good for desktop usage. But for server maintenance, where you spend 10 minutes on a box everyday, you won’t like the 100M monster eating up all your memory.
I’ve been using for this. And today I’ve found […]

¶ Posted 30 June 2006 § emacs ‡ Comments (0)

interactive with the rest of the world

Though many people says Emacs is an “Operating System”, it is not and still need to interactive with other programs
I’ve talked about how to call other programs from eshell, dired, and view files according to mime types within dired. Besides that, the 2 programs I use most is a terminal emulator and Firefox.
Most […]

¶ Posted 21 April 2006 § emacs ‡ Comments (0)

eshell

There are many shell interface within Emacs, shell, eshell, and ansi-term can call the shell you like. IMO eshell is the one intergrated with Emacs the most and I use most.
The most intergration that the others don’t have (to my knowledge) is that we can call lisp functions within the shell. like input
message "Hello, world!"
will […]