udev rules for firing up a phone manager on Debian

I just got udev rules working for adding and removal of my Sony Eriksson W760i on Debian Linux. It was a real swine to get working : primarily because of the lack of info about X issues when calling scripts from the udev process. Anyway here is how its done:

1) Create a local udev script file:

/etc/udev/rules.d/z21_local.rules

ACTION=="add",KERNEL=="ttyACM0",SUBSYSTEM=="tty",ATTRS{product}=="Sony Ericsson W760",ATTRS{serial}=="3570670210310730",RUN+="/home/shamrock/bin/phonelaunch",SYMLINK+="w760i"
ACTION=="remove",KERNEL=="ttyACM0",SUBSYSTEM=="tty",RUN+="/home/shamrock/bin/phonekill"


2) Script to lauch Wammu


#!/bin/bash
export HOME = /home/shamrock
set -x
xhost local:shamrock
export DISPLAY=:0.0
cd /home/shamrock
su shamrock -c "/usr/bin/wammu &"


3) Script to clean up on removal


#!/bin/bash
su shamrock -c "pkill wammu"



The details for the udev rules came from running:

sudo udevadm info --name=/dev/ttyACM0 --query=all --attribute-walk


Enjoy!

Good morning all!

from weblogger.el

now for the reverse dns

$TTL 1d ;
$ORIGIN 0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
@       IN      SOA     dns.richardriley.net.   richardriley.net. (
                                       2007011501
                                       7200
                                       120
                                       2419200
                                       604800
)
        IN      NS      dns.richardriley.net.
101     IN      PTR     hermes.richardriley.net.
102     IN      PTR     x30.richardriley.net.
104     IN      PTR     development.richardriley.net.

dumping bind parameters

richardriley.db

@     IN     SOA    dns.richardriley.net. richardriley.net.(
                    2008081428 ; serial
                    21600      ; refresh after 6 hours
                    3600       ; retry after 1 hour
                    604800     ; expire after 1 week
                    86400 )    ; minimum TTL of 1 day

      IN     NS     dns.richardriley.net.
      IN     MX     10     mail.richardriley.net.

imap 		     IN A 192.168.0.101
mail 		     IN A 192.168.0.101
smtp 		     IN A 192.168.0.101
www  		     IN A 192.168.0.101
ftp  		     IN A 192.168.0.101

development          IN A 192.168.0.104
hermes               IN A 192.168.0.101
X30                  IN A 192.168.0.102
g4                   IN A 192.168.0.103

correct way to use g-client

finally got it working and not halting my emacs startup

(setq rgr/gblogger-post-url "http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4166588008280027121/posts/default")
(load "g-loaddefs")

Aspell causing emacs to hang

The following helped ...

(setq-default ispell-extra-args  '("--sug-mode=ultra"))

emacs, gnus and mailto url from firefox on linux

I finally got mailto working properly with Gnus posting styles by tweaking some other solutions. Documented here.

company mode : emacs auto completion

I have recently cleaned up my programming elisp files and have got company-mode working again. It is truly excellent. check out the settings here.

emacs-fu: navigating through source code using tags

emacs-fu: navigating through source code using tags

I'm not sure that GLOBAL is a good thing. etags seems a lot better AND works with elisp. Combine it with etags tables. Having said that, the tags code navigation/completion situation in emacs is such a mess and so full of "almost ready" solutions one has to wonder what does what these days.

blogging with fixed url

(define-key mode-specific-map [?B] 'rgr/blog)

(defun rgr/blog ()
  (interactive)
  (if current-prefix-arg
      (progn 
	(let ((url(read-from-minibuffer "Post URL:")))
	  (gblogger-new-entry url)))
    (gblogger-new-entry rgr/gblogger-post-url)
    ))

Compositing and transparent emacs with xmonad

Read here for the emacs code
: Emacs-fu and making emacs transparent,
and here for the xmonad part : XMonad Compositing

gpg-agent for caching key passwords with gpg-agent

What a palava. A hundred readmes and howtos explaining how to run
gpg-agent in Linux for caching with the Emacs epa libraries and low
and behold it's already done in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90gpg-agent. Aargh. Also in my .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf the gtk2 pin reader does not work. Has to be X11. Dont ask me why.

Addendum : I'm an idiot. It should be "pinentry-gtk-2". Works now!

Remember where you are in Emacs files.

saveplaces.el

Use the saveplaces package to remember where you
were before when you reopen a file. Click on this link for more info.

How to use g-client from emacs for blogger.com blogs

Download Source

g-client package

Unarchive, add to your path in emacs, open a terminal, cd to that
directory and run make config

Understanding how to use it

The key is to set your g-user-mail to your googlemail
ID..e.g

(setq g-user-email "rileyrgdev@gmail.com")

and then you run gblogger-blog to log in and view your
blogs. Then comes the not so tricky bit. Put your cursor over the
"post" link for the blog you are interested (you should be using W3M by the way!) in and then hit "u" in W3m to copy the POST URL to the clipboard. Having done that, simply run gblogger-new-entry and paste in that POST URL. The rest is all down to you and your favorite nxml emacs editor .... And google of course :-;

Another test with embedded html tags

	
	  http://purl.org/net/emacs-gblogger/
	   shamrock  
	  
	  
	    

	      
Title test from g-client
	      

	      
	    
	  
	
      

Another test using nxml editor

Title test from g-client

(autoload  'ipa-insert "ipa")
(define-key mode-specific-map [?A] 'ipa-insert) 
(define-key mode-specific-map [?b] 'gblogger-blog)
(define-key mode-specific-map [?B] 'gblogger-new-entry)
(define-key mode-specific-map [?W] 'w3m-bookmark-view)
      

another test from g-client

Hello from g-client!

Blog client broken

My gblogger client from emacs has broken. I am trying something called g-client but can't get it to work! Damn. Just as I was reinvigorated and was going to post a long article about the dangers of pinning and sucking in unstable code into a Debian Lenny set up (Yeah, I know what "unstable" means...).

Emacs Python IDE

I finally got emacs working properly with the excellent company-mode. But I have to think this guy:

http://www.enigmacurry.com/2009/01/21/autocompleteel-python-code-completion-in-emacs/

For some reason the rope/ropemacs/ropemode documentation is pretty inconsistent and hard to find. Installing it from mercurial as described in the article above did it.

company-mode supports rope and pysmell now out of the box.

See my emacs python integration here:

http://richardriley.net/projects/emacs/dotprogramming

rope etc is loaded by company-mode.

Picasa for Linux.

Picasa for Linux. Nice.