One month with Emacs and counting - Part 2

Other posts in the from Vim to Emacs series:

part 1

One month with Emacs and counting - Part 2

Other posts in the from Vim to Emacs series:

part 1

One month with Emacs and counting - Part 1

Straight to the point: since mid September I've been
using Emacs, trying to
evaluate whether I was willing to switch from Vim to it.

One month with Emacs and counting - Part 1

Straight to the point: since mid September I've been
using Emacs, trying to
evaluate whether I was willing to switch from Vim to it.

Since the last post, I have significantly improved debian-mr-copyright-mode, that now provides an interactive function, debian-mr-copyright-scan-files that shows which files are covered by which clause of the debian/copyright file. I've also significantly improved my understanding of font lock and emacs lisp in general...

I've been thinking that something that might help a wider adoption of the machine-readable copyright format is a proper emacs major mode for it. Well, at least, it does for me... So I started to write one. It is loosely based on debian-control-mode, although there is hardly any code left from it now. It only features syntax highlighting for now (including warning for licenses which were not on the wiki page at the time of the writing, or were marked as needing more discussions) but, after all, this is only my first emacs major mode...

I use Emacs for a certain number of tasks (mostly LaTeX, Perl and Postscript).

One news had my attention some time ago. Emacs is now capable of using all the system fonts, any size. Following a request from a friend, I finally tested it... and adopted it.

The method was easy at work, in i386 architecture. Ubuntu (or one of its user: Alexandre Vassalotti) has some packages for emacs-snapshot that use the emacs-unicode-2 branche of development. Recompiling was no problem.