Three nifty alternatives to the M-TAB key in Emacs, and a replacement.

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

The M-<TAB> key in Emacs provides a useful completion function (`completion-at-point’), which tries to complete the current symbol at point to something useful, usually based on other symbols in the buffer which have the current partial symbol as a prefix.

However, using this key is a pain in most OS GUI systems, since it is usually mapped to the Task Switching function as well. Note that the <Alt> key doubles as <Meta> on most keyboards.

ASCII Art - Converting JPEG images to ASCII

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Found an interesting ASCII Art conversion site at http://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic

The site takes 60x50 pixel JPEG images (size has to be exactly that) and converts them to a ASCII glyph based image.

Tid-Bit on /usr

Three nifty alternatives to the M-TAB key in Emacs, and a replacement.

ASCII Art - Converting JPEG images to ASCII