Open Source Project

Successfully hosted my first open source project at code.google.com. It is a program that reads windows shortcut files and lauches files linked by them.

Check it out at: http://code.google.com/p/winshortcut/

I am planning to do the same with IPMessenger after trying to contact the author again.

Intel version of IPMessenger

This is the version of IPMessenger compiled for Intel platform. This is having enough bug fixes for the code to compile and a few minor GUI additions:

1. Command + comma now opens the preferences tag (it did not do that by default)
2. A few gramatical errors corrected in various dialog boxes.


IPMessenger Intel.zip

Known Issues:

1. Sometimes t is replaced with \

I will fix this issue in the next build - too tired to do anything right now.

Now that the code is successfully compiled and run, we can make app as good as we want! Any comments or suggestions for further improvement is most appreciated.

aps as basic proxy authenticator

You can use aps as an authenticator for both ntlm and basic proxies. Download this unofficial bug-fix release which supports both ntlm and basic proxies

aps098.zip

Note that the official aps page still has the bugs that is fixed in the version that I released. To use the official version, you need to replace the config file and the lib/basic_auth.py files from the original aps with my bug-fix release.

command-on-buffer

After reading the article on javascript bookmarklets in daringfireball.net, I wanted to make emacs do something that BBEdit and TextWrangler do: Take the buffer and give it to the shell command and replace the buffer's contents with its output.

I didn't know if it was implemented in emacs and got to working on it and one hour later I produced this emacs lisp script:


(defun command-on-buffer (command)
(interactive "MEnter command: ")
(shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) command (current-buffer)))

(global-set-key "\C-c\C-s" 'command-on-buffer)


I was initially bent on using call-process-region but somehow it gave errors when I was running interpreted python or perl code. I remember the python code giving syntax error at reading stdin. I don't know whether it thought there was no stdin at all or if it was empty. However normal commands like "cat" worked without any problems.

So, I was looking for other programs which used call-process-region and since I was editing a python file (which was what I was testing the elisp function on), I recognized that the python-mode must use something like that for sending the buffer to the python shell.

I grep'd for a while in python-mode files and found out that shell-command-on-region is like call-process-region but it could execute shell commands and looked for its documentation (in emacs itself - it IS the best editor in the world after all). And yes, it did exactly what I wanted - it gave arbitrary text in the buffer to the shell command and could put the output in any buffer I chose. Writing the function then was very simple as you can see.

It doesn't give selected text to the command yet. I do plan to implement that too - but only when I have a real need or inspiration and if I find that emacs indeed doesn't have any functions to do what I want. For that I need a way to see if any text is selected, get the selected text and then ask shell-command-on-region to replace only the selected text. I don't think shell-command-on-region does that and if that is the case, I'll have to put that in a buffer and insert its contents into the selected region.