I’m posting this from the friendly confines of
G-Client,
a suite of emacs
clients for accessing Google Services. It’s quite nifty, although you
should pay attention to the comments if you are using it independently
of its parent project, emacspeak;
there is a gotcha with the stand-alone package, although I hear it has
been resolved with the latest in svn
.
Actually, ignore that last paragraph. I wrote this post 4 times in
G-Client, and never once managed to post it successfully. Once, I made
the mistake of saving a draft version, and emacs switched modes on
me. The other three times, I finished writing and used C-c C-c
to
(supposedly) submit the post for publication, but emacs seemed to just
spin out into infinity or something. So combining the fact that the
distributed tarball didn’t work out of the box with the fact that even
after I fixed that problem the editing and submission process is flaky,
I can’t recommend G-Client to anyone right now. The idea is fascinating,
though, so I’ll continue to follow developments, and if it does work
out, I’ll be sure to let you know. Until then, it looks like it’s back
to FF +
It’s All Text!
for now.
Back to flipping out…