Lately I’ve become enamoured with Emacs “planner-mode”:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerMode which allows me to use Emacs to maintain task lists and schedule information in a psuedo-wiki-like environment (courtesy of “Emacs Muse”:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EmacsMuse). In particular I’ve been using the planner-timeclock to track what projects get my attention and when. Of course its not 100% accurate — I still often forget to “clock in” when starting to work on something — but I think I’ll be able to get some useful information from it.
This weekend, however, I managed to screw up the fonts in Emacs. They were never great, but I’d managed to get them to a state where they didn’t kill my eyes or take up half the screen. As I started to poke at the problem this morning, I ran across the “prospect”:http://times.usefulinc.com/2005/12/02-emacs-xft of using Emacs with XFT fonts. More poking and I found a “source for .debs”:http://g33k.wordpress.com/2006/11/06/gnu-emacs-with-xft-goodness/ of updated emacs-snapshot packages. Your mileage may vary, but I found, like other people in the comments thread, that the **dapper** packages actually work better on Edgy than the **edgy** ones. So after installing the packages I had lovely anti-aliased font support, but alas, planner-mode broke. So to save anyone else in this situation (ha!) some grief, you need to grab planner and muse from source when using them with **Emacs 23** on Ubuntu 6.10. The “latest” tarball links in the Emacs Wiki work.
Still, planner is “broken” with emacs-23 from cvs. I’ve downloaded the latest version of planner and font locking is disabled (or looks that way), each planner file opened is marked as modified even tho I am not doing anything, etc