Zope-3.1.0

I did not find any ebuilds for Zope-3.1.0. So I converted the ebuild that's currently available for the older experimental version (ZopeX3). The ebuild can be downloaded here.

The Zope Package Manager caught my eye and so I also added an ebuild for this program. It can be used to install Zope-Add-On packages into the installation. Actually the tool can handle the complete Zope installation. It still needs some more documentation. But there are enough examples since all packages within Zope seem to use this new tool.

Posted at: 18:01 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Emacs Language Sensitive Editor (ELSE)

I recently looked at ELSE and decided to give it a try. I wrote an ebuild for the package and started using it with python.

Once the code has been installed, the code can be imported into emacs:

;; load path for else-mode
(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/else-mode")

;; my own modified templates for ELSE reside here
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/usr/devel/website/config/emacs/else-mode")

;; autoload on function 'else-mode'
(autoload 'else-mode "else-mode" "Starting template engine" t)

;; automatically start with python
(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
	  (lambda ()
	    ;; this is shown as a lambda so you can add further interesting
	    ;; minor mode definitions here.
	    (else-mode)))

Once you start an empty python file you will now get an initial placeholder that you can expand using C-c / e. This will give you more placeholders which you can successively expand to give you a complete script.

This is just the basic use and in many cases won't be too useful for programming since the main part of coding is not really concerned with optimizing the code skeleton.

But ELSE offers a lot more than this basic placeholder replacement. Just check the documentation of the package since it is pretty good.

Posted at: 14:20 | Permalink | category: /english/technical

The Soma Haunt

Nice. They have a Halloween special on SomaFM. I really don't care about Halloween but I don't mind switching to darker tunes for a weekend.

It's definitely strange music with wailing babies in the background...

Posted at: 09:17 | Permalink | category: /english/personal/media