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17:15:38 [@hawking]
17:15:38 -!- Irssi: #gentoo-vim: Total of 1 nicks \
    [1 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 0 normal]
17:16:05 -!- Channel #gentoo-vim created Mon Apr 21 17:15:34 2008
17:18:11 -!- Irssi: Join to #gentoo-vim was synced in 196 secs
20:05:41 <@hawking> I'm so lonely!
20:06:01  * hawking stabs hawking
23:40:40 <@hawking> hey there
23:40:57 <@hawking> what's up charlie? :)
23:41:01 <@hawking> you know you're high!
23:41:10 <@hawking> and it's hard to speak when you are :-]
23:41:27 <@hawking> set the controls for the heart of the sun!
23:41:58 <@hawking> oh sacrifice me to death for pink floyd!
23:42:04 <@hawking> aaaa aaaa
23:42:07 <@hawking> aaaa aaaa
23:42:12 <@hawking> set the controls for the heart of the sun...
23:42:46 <@hawking> it's also very hard to speak english, when you're \
    ... erm .. high :)
23:42:54 <@hawking> so!
23:43:03 <@hawking> see emily play!
23:46:01  * hawking is listening to Pink Floyd - See Emily Play
23:46:40 <@hawking> arghh for a second I lost ncmpc :) couldn't find it \
    for 3 minutes :-]
23:47:19 <@hawking> there's no other day
23:47:29 <@hawking> :) ( I can't speak so I decided to sing! )
23:47:38 <@hawking> emily++
23:48:55 <@hawking> emily ftw!
23:48:58  * hawking hugs emily
23:49:09  * hawking is listening to Pink Floyd - \
    The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
23:49:21 <@hawking> ouch! not now! change it!
23:49:40 <@hawking> just a right song for the moment!
23:49:52  * hawking is listening to Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly
23:50:08 <@hawking> nice one indeed, quite relaxing.. lovely song!
23:50:45 <@hawking> I'm so relaxed, I can't type
23:51:12  * hawking grins
23:51:40  * hawking waves bye to channel
23:51:44 <@hawking> *shrug*

To edit .lzma files with vim add the following snippet to your vimrc:

augroup lzma
        au!

        au BufReadPre,FileReadPre       *.lzma setlocal bin
        au BufReadPost,FileReadPost     *.lzma call gzip#read("lzma -d")
        au BufWritePost,FileWritePost   *.lzma call gzip#write("lzma")
        au FileAppendPre                *.lzma call gzip#appre("lzma -d")
        au FileAppendPost               *.lzma call gzip#write("lzma")
augroup END " augroup lzma

Note you need to have lzma-utils , not lzma, for this to work.

I've done some major work under dev-lang/python today. I've backported many patches from upstream. Here is a list of issues fixed:

• Buffer overflow in zlib extension, CVE-2008-1721.
  Gentoo bug: 217221
  Upstream bug: 2586
  Upstream fix: r62235
  Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.3.6-r5, 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
• PyString_FromStringAndSize() unsafe
  Upstream bug: 2587
  Upstream fix: r62262
  Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.3.6-r5, 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
• distutils doesn't respect CXXFLAGS
  Gentoo bug: 145206
  Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
  Thanks to Mark Peloquin for the patch.
• Thread unsafe file objects
  Upstream bugs: 595601, 815646
  Upstream fix: r62195
  Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.5.2-r1
• a bunch of infinite C recursions
  Upstream bug: 1202533
  Upstream fix: r58032
  Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.5.2-r1

I've also added wininst USE flag fixing bug 198021 and converted nothreads and nocxx USE flags to threads and cxx adding USE defaults. The only issue left is internal build of libffi - bug 209673 - which should wait until some issues about libffi is clarified.

If you're using a python extension written in C++ like wxpython, reemerge it to make use of your CXXFLAGS.

This is all for now. Have a nice weekend :-)

Rest in peace, bride of peace, rest in peace... :'(

There are two ways to use vim to display man pages. The first one is using vimmanpager and the second one is using the :Man command from within vim. Today I fixed bug 212844 which was a problem about vimmanpager and colour codes. You'll have to reinstall vim to get the updated vimmanpager.

To use vimmanpager as your default man pager build vim with vim-pager USE flag and set the environment variable MANPAGER to vimmanpager.

For those who want to use the command :Man from within vim, here is a trick to get things right. Add the following lines to your vimrc:

" make :Man command avaliable
source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim
" Default MANPAGER vimmanpager doesn't play well
" with the :Man command and we don't want to see raw colour codes
" so we use sed to strip them.
let $MANPAGER = "sed -e 's:\\x1B\\[[[:digit:]]\\+m::g'"

Happy vimming :-)

After a while, I'm back to blogging and gentoo :). I was in the hospital for 10 days 2 weeks ago. I'm diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder. Currently I'm using olanzapine to keep myself in reality and sertraline to have a good mood. I stopped school until september. I'll spend this time doing my usual gentoo work and reading some books which I couldn't read due to lack of time.

I'm slowly recovering and started to commit fixes to our CVS. I'm taking things slow though. Fortunately dev-zero is back and lordvan requested to take care of twisted packages.

I've updated my blog and added haloscan comment support and buttons to ease submitting to digg, del.icio.us, furl, reddit, slashdot and stumble upon.

This post is meant as an explanation for my slacking in the last months :).