Emacs isn’t so bad, really

Spent a lot of time dicking with Emacs today. Got JDEE (or JDE?) all set up. Learned that when I’m installing Elisp stuff it apparently isn’t enough to just copy the compiled files — especially since a bunch of Makefiles seem to not compile everything, though perhaps this is Emacs’ fault. So now I cp *.el* ~/.elisp/foo when “installing.”

I posted my .emacs as well, including my nifty indentation hack for Java and cc-mode in general. It allows things like hanging argument lists to be indented properly. This was my replacement for the “Tab size independent indenting” patched cc-mode I posted yesterday, since I wanted to run the latest and greatest. I love Emacs for the ability to write something like this in just an hour or so.

Installed the Java plug-in for Mozilla per http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java from Sun JDK 1.4.1 (actual file is jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so). Worked like a charm. Needed for JDE user guide.

Downloaded all RH 8.0 ISOs… all *five* of them. Is RH converging on Debian WRT number of packages or something? I’m told by a friend that his install of “everything” didn’t touch discs 4 or 5, so it’s possible these are the OpenOffice disks or something? I probably won’t bother using the new version until I get an APT repository set up for it at work.

I’ll probably go work on some designs for the famed Java streaming server now. Wish me luck, and persistence.

Oh, I almost forgot: the XML feed’s timestamp is wrong. Probably both of them. I’ll go fix it now, I guess.