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Ubuntu/ Linux: How to permanently turn off the annoying system bell (beep)

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

You know what I mean … that loud loud beep that almost knocks you out whenever you type a non-available keyboard shortcut in Emacs.
For immediate relief (this will not persist through a reboot):
sudo modprobe -r pcspkr
For permanent relief, edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and add the line:
blacklist pcspkr

Better buffer switching in Emacs

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

I’ve switched from XEmacs to Emacs, about a month back. I like it much better. On Xubuntu, many more things work “out of the box” (for example the Noweb mode for Sweave). X clipboard contents are immediately available for yanking!
One thing that’s always annoyed me in both XEmacs and Emacs was the buffer switching […]

Emacs & weblogger.el

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Weblogger.el offers a nice way to post directly to a Wordpress blog from Emacs; here’s a good description how to set it up.
In addition: When creating an entry, you can also set categories by adding a line “Keywords:” to the header, such as:
Keywords: Linux, Emacs, Noobs
I haven’t figured out how to do trackbacks yet, but […]