I have found the first crazy quirk about my little iBook that is going to slowly drive me nuts. Huh. And while trying to type this blog entry in emacs just now, I have found the second. I'll get to that in a minute.

The first quirk is what happens when I try to ssh to another machine and export the display to the iBook. Using the "-X" tag in ssh usually manages this just fine. However, the use of the -X tag on the x11 client Matt has on here causes every "e" I type in to become a backspace. Huh. Since "e" is kind of essetial to any sort of work (come on... I dare you to work on a computer for five minutes without using a single "e"), I just have to learn to live without the "-X" tag. Unless Matt can figure out how to fix it.

The second one, which I have just discovered, is that I have a real lack of knowledge about how to work in a unix environment using the Mac keyboard and single-button mouse. Case in point: emacs. I was trying to turn on the auto-fill so that it breaks up the text at the right edge of the page and doesn't just run words onto the next line. Usually in emacs on linux I would do this using Alt-x, and then typing "auto-fill". I know that Alt is the "Meta" key for emacs. What the heck is my Meta key now? The "fn" button? The little squiggle with the apple beside it? Eep. And it's 7 in the morning, I can't wake matt up to ask, and I need to get back to work anyways. Which I'd love to use emacs and x11 for, but I'll suck it up since I keep breaking both of them.

This post not edited for spelling or grammar since it's too hard without auto-fill on. Boo.