Dennis Ritchie lost in 'Reality Distortion Field'

Dennis Ritchie (dmr), the man who created the C programming language, and co-invented UNIX, passed away last weekend.

So sad that even slashdot is yet to report on it (as of 13-10-2011, 08:30 IST).

Once the world has forgotten Mr.Jobs, dmr's contribution to computing will still be remembered.

RIP sir.
 

Emacs keybindings in GNOME Evolution 3.x

The old way wouldnt work with the GNOME Evolution 3.x that comes in Debian Wheezy. So, after a little digging around GtkHTML's sources, here..:

1. Run 'gconf-editor'.
2. Browse to "/desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels" and enable it.
3. Browse to "/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme" and set it to "Emacs".
4. Start Evolution and open a new message. Hover your mouse over the 'menu items' whose key-bindings interfere with the normal Emacs world bindings (e.g: Print, Copy, Search, ...) and press "Del". This will 'unbind' those shortcuts from those menus. Close Evolution.
5. Download this and put it in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
6. Open a terminal and run:

   
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"
$ chmod u-w ~/.gnome2/accels/evolution

7. Enjoy "Ctrl+N", "Ctrl+P".. etc in the composer.

Update 1: blogger.com stripped the tags in the gtk.css content posted here. So, linked it to a file hosted elsewhere.