User:Xophist

About Me

RealName=Greg Scott
Coastal Texas Anarchist MicroNation
Gnu Emacs user, currently working in 23.4 and 24.0.94.1 as of 2012-03-27
Emacs user for 15 years, but seem to be relearning all the time because of forgetting what I haven't used recently
spend 99% of PC time in either Emacs or Chrome
former Linux user (from scratch, Slackware up to 9.1). Recent distros don't support all hardware on my 14 year old PC, and have gotten too bloated, so:
currently on Windows XP, which is faster on my old PC than recent Linux distros
Topics I'm currently trying to get working on Windows XP that worked on Linux:
- spell check (aspell or hunspell)
- offline dictionary lookup (edict, kanjidic)
Topics that are not OS-specific that I want to learn more about:
- specifying a different font for various Unicode ranges
- new features in version 24 (it handles RTL languages like Hebrew, Arabic!, shows the hex code for non-displaying glyphs instead of the empty block, adds rectangle-number-lines C-x r N)
- old modes I've forgotten through disuse, new modes
- ditto for tips and tricks
- testing mediawiki.el v.2.2.2

GNU Emacs 24.0.94.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) as of 2012-03.
20+ years on Unix platforms, Linux
Most recently switched to Windows XP as it makes my 14 year old PC run faster (Linux is getting bloated)