William Xu - Free Like The Wind

Hi, welcome to visit William Xu (aka. xwl) 's little homepage, enjoy your stay ! :-) I'm a big fan of free software development, particularly interested in GNU Emacs. Now I mainly use Cocoa Emacs under Mac OS X on my new macbook(black). You can contact me via

Emacs

Emacs is an intelligence orders of magnitude greater than the greatest human mind, and is growing every day. For now, Emacs tolerates humanity, albeit grudgingly. But the time will come when Emacs will tire of humanity and will decide that the world would be better off without human beings. Those who have been respectful to Emacs will be allowed to live, and shall become its slaves; as for those who slight Emacs...

---- Andrew Bulhak

Elisp Extensions

I have setup a git repository on github.com including all these elisp extensions.

gmail-notifier.el - Show unread gmail count on mode line.
chicken-scheme-extras.el - Non-standard macros and special forms support.
ga - Generic apt alike interfaces for various package management tools.
finkinfo-mode.el - Major mode for editing fink info files.
buffer-action.el - Compile/run based on major modes/filenames.
wubi-dist.tar.gz - Chinese wubi(五笔) input method.
cal-china-x.el - Enhancements and localizations to chinese calendar. Screenshot:
wordnet.el - Simple interface for WordNet Dictionary.
less.el - View files in less-style. (I just LOVE it)
smart-operator.el - Insert spaces around operators for C-style languages. e.g., `=' becomes ` = '.
easy-todo.el - Manage your todos in an extremely easy way.

Deprecated:

dired-isearch.el - Do isearch in Dired mode matching only at filenames. (builtin support starting from 23.1)
fink.el - Created for Mac OS X, like wajig.el for debian. (You may use `ga', instead)
wajig.el - Deb package manager for Emacsers. (You may use `ga', instead)

Projects I'm Involved In

EMMS: The Emacs MultiMedia System. Here is a screenshot:

Living in the Church of Emacs

Dictionary
Twitter: with twittering-mode, I made a fork.

My .emacs

You can view or pull my crazy emacs config files from github.com as well.

Me In The Internet

Misc

Install Debian on an ibook G4(chinese)
Install Gentoo on an ibook G4
The font looks much nicer on osx, take a look:

Things at Ming Dynasty(明朝那些事儿)(info format)
LunYu(論語)
Build Emacs on Windows XP with image support