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Don't be a drip in the drop out bucket

Xurando — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:43:18 -0800

Icicle Watching Filter: Drippers Vs. Streamers Trapped in a Vermont weather mess. The plow hasn't come yet. Trapped at home, I'm reduced to watching the icicles outside the windows. Most drip, drip , drip, a drop a drop at a time. But there are 6 (out of over 100) icicles on the house that have thin stream of water coming off the bottom rather than a drip. There is no observable difference in appearance. What would make an icicle stream instead of drip?

How do I make fake icicle wings for a costume?

nessahead — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:18:39 -0800

How do I make fake icicles like this for a winged costume representing Winter? For my Winter costume I want to have little wings made of branches with fake icicles that look like this.

I don't want something that will break and be dangerous. I can't use anything that will shed itself all over the place, making a mess. I thought about making icicles out of some sort of glue but I don't think it would dry clear. Prop icicles for movie sets are prohibitively expensive.

Any ideas?

Ruby code completion in Emacs, Intellisense-style?

dmd — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:09:56 -0800

Rcodetools, possibly in conjunction with Icicles, seems like it should be the bee's knees for doing Ruby code completion in Emacs. I need help getting it to actually work. Does anyone have this working properly? Could you talk me through it in baby steps? The existing documentation seems rather sparse, and assumes you're already quite proficient in Emacs lisp.

I did manage at one point to get as far as actually having rcodetools do some completion, but it behaves weirdly. For example, if I'm in an empty buffer and type 42. and execute rct-complete-symbol, it happily obliges and gives me all the methods available to an Integer. But suppose instead I type

def foo 42. end
and, with point after 42., execute rct-complete-symbol, then it tells me no completions are found. What gives?

Anyway - any help greatly appreciated. I greatly miss IntelliSense from Ruby in Visual Studio now that I'm on a Mac full time, and I'm really hoping emacs can do at least some of what VS does.