Category Archives: code

Faster mercurial patch queue merging with emacs

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Josh Matthews

As a follow-up to my previous post about merging mq reject in emacs, I thought I’d share some improvements to the process that I’ve made since then. (defun switch-hg-reject () (interactive) (let ((other-file (if (string= (substring (buffer-file-name) -4 nil) “.rej”) … Continue reading →

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Cross-compiling with MinGW on Fedora

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Josh Matthews

My goodness, I’m impressed. Having released the first iteration of my robotic debugger, I was informed that the fork()/exec() combo isn’t portable to Windows. Nobody volunteered any patches immediately, so I decided to read up on cross-compiling since I really … Continue reading →

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Dealing with mercurial patch queue rejects in emacs

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Josh Matthews

Since Mozilla has embraced mercurial, and especially patch queues, with open arms, I get to deal with rebasing patches frequently. There are two ways this can happen – either you set up an external merge tool like meld to handle … Continue reading →

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Building Rosegarden trunk

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Josh Matthews

I’m working my way through building Rosegarden from SVN on Fedora 12, and thought I would jot down my settings for posterity. My default QTDIR was incorrect for Qt4 (/usr/lib/qt-3.3), which made configure fail. Following a patch in a gentoo … Continue reading →

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