Posts tagged with "emacs"

Emacs brings REPL-driven development to SQL using sql-mode, so you can have a SQL buffer running and send commands to it.

Today however sql-mode didn’t show a prompt when connecting to my local dev database. It turns out that sql-mode has a regexp looking for the prompt, which expects the database name to be all alphanumerics for some reason. It seems to be fixed but is not in the version I get from Arch Linux.

I have once again switched browsers, the pendulum is now on the Firefox side. However when I changed my Emacs config to open links in firefox it didn’t work.

Instead I got the error message “Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.”

It turned out that I had both the firefox and firefox-esr packages installed, and browse-url-firefox tried to open iceweasel instead of firefox. Uninstalling firefox-esr solved it.

It was my colleague Håkan Råberg who coined this the other day. Quite insightful I think. I mean, you can play Tetris in them both.