Happy happy joy joy!
Nov. 28th, 2006 08:03 pm
So... make sure you have the fonts, and do this:
And type away. Happy happy joy joy! And then dance in the streets, or even better, organise an all-Kerala hartal to protest against the rough edges.M-x set-language-environment Malayalam M-x set-input-method malayalam-itrans
(So Emacs can do Malayalam transliteration. It isn’t perfect, still it is something. Actually, this has been around for sometime - from the early Emacs 21 days. This just happened to be the first thing I tried out after getting Emacs 22 off CVS.)
Elsewhere:
- Ramakrishnan on getting Malayalam text to work with Emacs - things have moved a little since, but should generally work.
- Steve Yegge: Shiny and New: Emacs 22

The Tank, Manju and I went for a Malayalam book haul some months back. That was when I took this picture of the Tank.
I better not narrate stories about him here. On the other hand, I thought the way this picture is made into B&W is mildly interesting. If you open a colour photograph and simply change mode to "grayscale" using your favourite image editor, you'd get a rather noisy unappealing picture. There are other means to this.
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Speedbar is Love.
Nov. 25th, 2005 01:33 pm
Suddenly noticed that speedbar displays the current stack when you are within the GUD mode inside Emacs. And you can walk up and down the stack from speedbar, with the source and debugger buffers in the other frame. Wooohoooo!
Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping may be older than I am, but it never fails to spring up a surprise. Everyday.