Before having interned at ROAD I was a heavy user of XEmacs, having used the various elisp scripts from KDE and linux CodingStyle and various other elisp scripts. My .xemacs dir was quite nice and with using gnuserv the startup speed of XEmacs was no issue as well. I’m not good at remembering keyboard shortcuts so XEmacs was pretty much the only choiche I had. Somehow I switched to VIM and were able to remember most of the shortcuts and the easy searching within files, which I was never able to do within XEmacs…

Today was the day, I was used to Gtk+ apps randomly crashing on XErrors on my forwarded X sessions, sadly GNU emacs and XEmacs crashed as well and decided to google and found the -Y option for ssh and now Gtk+/GVim, XEmacs and GNU emacs do not abort on XErrors anymore. Sadly the keymap of GVim is totally wrong and I can not even do curly braces or pipe symbols, so I installed xemacs21 on my system but the fonts still looked ugly and I decided to give GNU emacs a try. Now I have a nicely looking editor with syntax highlighting and lisp under the hood. I think I will give GNU emacs a trial and try to remember the various options and collect elisp files again.

I’m really looking forward to see the release of the GREENPHONE and I hope it comes at an affordable price. One issue that worries me is that it is shipping with a 2.4.19 kernel. I sincerly hope that they have patched all security issues in their ancient kernel, use a gcc 2.95 that actually knows about XScale and can produce good enough code and that the root filesystem is not as ancient as their kernel. I think I will lose all my hairs if they ship a phone with a vulnerable zlib, freeytpe, libjpeg, libpng and the other basesystem libraries that has been vulnerable. PLEASE Trolltech do not ship a phone with known security issues.