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Monthly Archives: August 2006

Emacs+XFT

Here is how I went about building a version of Emacs that has XFT support on Ubuntu 6.06.

Install the latest GTK Emacs snapshot:
sudo apt-get install emacs-snapshot-gtk

Check out the emacs-unicode-2 branch into /opt:
cd /opt

sudo cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co -remacs-unicode-2 emacs

Configure and build:

./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-font-backend --with-xft --with-freetype --with-gtk --x-includes=/usr/include/X11 --x-libraries=/usr/lib/X11

sudo make bootstrap

gtzCode

gtzCode is a Firefox extension that makes it easy to enter markup used by the GameTZ forums. This extension is based (i.e. copied from) on MLL’s last.fmCode extension, which is in turn based on BBCodeXtra.

This extension shares the same limitation as last.fmCode. You can’t have BBCodeXtra (or last.fmCode) installed at the same time.

This is alpha software. It works for me on Firefox 1.5/2.0 under Linux and Mac OS. I’m not responsible if it destroys your computer.