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Before I got deep into coding modifications of Diamond I wanted to get a GUI GDB front end. Yes, I can use Emacs GDB interface and have, but I quasi-suck at the command line. Yes, I would get better over time, but I had used Gede before and it works rather nice. Besides, I’m currently…
Read More → Keep in mind I have a minimal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on this system. The Building for Unix instructions assume a full installation and even then aren’t complete. By using a minimal install I can help even non-Ubuntu users because I will find everything that got missed. sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev libglib2.0-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev \ libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev…
Read More →First off I need to tell you the system I will be using. This system has a recent minimal install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with all updates applied. BOINC, Nvidia drivers, and Gui Emacs are just about the only other things I installed. It’s an older system that I have run BOINC until I need…
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It seems rainy days and rabbit holes go hand in hand. I keep trying to get back to writing my GnuCOBOL book (having finished the first draft of the Emacs book) and I keep finding rabbit holes. In particular, I got involved in the GnuCOBOL GUI discussion. The main version of GnuCOBOL is a transpiler….
Read More →I went down this road because I wanted to compile one simple test program so I could file a bug with GnuEmacs about how they don’t catch NumLock. This is a really old bug and they seem willing to let it rot until computers cease to exist. My test program was a KeyEvent example I…
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