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For Biden, All The World's A Stage For Possible 2016 Run
Vice President Biden hasn't announced his 2016 presidential plans. It's far too early for that; we haven't even hit the first anniversary of President Obama's second inaugural, after all.
But as Biden traveled this week to Japan, China and South Korea where he met top leaders, he certainly gave the impression of a man doing a full dress rehearsal for the presidency.
Of course, if Hillary Clinton decides to run for president, rehearsing for the presidency may be as close as Biden gets to the Democratic nomination.
Still, the Asia trip is certainly generating the kind of moments, video and headlines that could prove useful to his image makers if Biden decides to run for president.
On Tuesday, Biden was in Tokyo commiserating with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe over the regional tensions caused by China's assertion of a new air defense zone. Then there was the separate meeting with female Japanese workers, in which Biden was accompanied by Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
The next day he was with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who called Biden "my old friend" — the two men having spent time together in recent years. And Biden talked up the importance of a U.S.-Chinese relationship built on "candor" and "trust."
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In any event, the trip has been a chance for Biden to be seen on the world stage in his own right, as Biden might say "literally and figuratively." It reinforced his strong foreign policy chops, earned from years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the panel he chaired before entering the White House with Obama.
It was also a reminder that if both Biden and Clinton were to vie for the Democratic nomination, Biden would, more than any other Democrat mentioned as a 2016 possibility, match the former secretary of state's foreign policy gravitas.
"I've had dinner with Biden, and the list of people he says he's met and has decent relationships with, in terms of other countries' leaders, is quite impressive," says Jody Baumgartner, an associate professor of political philosophy at East Carolina University who has written a book on the vice presidency and is presently at work on a second.
Baumgartner has twice met with Biden at the vice president's Naval Observatory home, part of a small group of scholars Biden invited to visit him in 2009 and 2011 because they had written books on the vice presidency, not the hottest topic in presidential scholarship.
Impressed by Biden's global network, Baumgartner sees it as part of the former Delaware senator's approach to government service. "It's very clear that he's been doing this job, let's call it government, for 30-plus years, and that he's worked hard and paid attention. He knows a lot. And he loves it. He believes in it. And there's a passion there."
Combine that with Biden being a natural glad-hander who's willing to chat up just about anyone, and you get a politician who treats the world stage like a visit to his old Scranton neighborhood, a quality well captured in Jeanne Marie Laskas' GQ profile of Biden.
It's also captured in reports written by journalists accompanying Biden in Asia as part of the traveling press pool. When Biden met Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, for instance, he joked as he introduced members of the Obama administration who accompanied him. He mirthfully introduced one U.S. official as being from Hollywood because he wore sunglasses indoors. And he playfully introduced an official on the White House National Security Council, or NSC, as being from the ever-much-in-the-news NSA. Li smiled.
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March 19, 2007
Themes for Google Personalized Homepage
Google Personalized Homepage becomes a little bit more "customizable". Now you can select between the default theme and six other childish themes. Themes change the background, text colors, icons, Google's logo, button sizes and more.
The theme is actually an XML that contains a list of CSS files. Google says that the "theme will dynamically change to match your time of day, including local sunrise and sunset times", so you have to enter your location. If you look in the XML, you'll notice a lot of references to the weather, so it's likely that the theme will change depending on weather, as well.
Because the theme is actually just a CSS file (and its dependencies), Google could let users build their own themes and maybe even host those themes to improve the performance.
{ Thank you, Allen Fuqua. }
85 comments:
Yes, looks nice, they have to compete with others fancy personalized homepages.ReplyDelete
My only concern is that the web page itself is getting bigger, as it gonna load slower.
I have run some tests and the requests needed to the server increased.
You can use the "classic" theme to revert to the old behavior.ReplyDelete
From Sydney Morning Herald:ReplyDelete
<< Google's new package of decorations, also known as "skins", are designed to make the home page feel even more homey, said Marissa Mayer, the company's vice president of search products and user experience.
"Google has become the doorway to the internet for a lot of people, so we want to make (the site) feel more like an online living room," Mayer said.
Reflecting its cautious approach, Google's first set of decorations consist of just six themes revolving mostly around landscapes. The settings include a Japanese tea garden, a beach, a city skyline and a bus stop. Google plans to introduce a few more themes each month and eventually may accept outside submissions, Mayer said. (...)
The designs also will contain hidden surprises known as "Easter eggs" that will open up with an opportune click at the right time of the day, Mayer said. >>
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 12:50 AM
This is a nice feature, hopefuly we can create our own CSS for this, the pict. in top is a litle to large (for me).ReplyDelete
Wow, I gotta hand it to them for finally giving the aesthetic some attention, and working on that "cold grey exterior" feeling that was mentioned in an entry a few weeks back.ReplyDelete
The teahouse theme is fantastic, just set it as my default.
The themes look bad, but the sunset-theme is at least an improvement over the previous theme.ReplyDelete
I'm happy that finally, Google learns that skinning is important.
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 2:41 AM
i like the new look, it's great. but the location of the sun doesn't work as i expect.ReplyDelete
there is a hint to complete the zip code, so i completed "bucharest, romania" but the sun location wasn't correct :D. they could give the user the possibility to complete the geographical coordinates, or at least the time zone (like EET, or UTC+2) if they don't provide weather forecast for the whole world.
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 2:43 AM
How do i find it?ReplyDelete
Is this feature rolled out for all or is Google phasing it out to users cos i still cant see the option to change the themeReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 3:13 AM
So we just have to wait....ReplyDelete
Hiya guys,ReplyDelete
It doesn't work on: http://www.google.co.uk/ig
but it works on: http://www.google.com/ig
'tis being phased in, methinks :ReplyDelete
it just appeared a few minutes ago for me
pretty :)
- imma
What do I think?ReplyDelete
I don't see the option to select it!
Neither do I see any options to do anything related to themes.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 4:32 AM
Nice little improvement, however the top themes feel too much like my.yahoo.com.ReplyDelete
Wow, I love these themes! They're only available on google.com/ig though. I also don't think the changing of the pictures works with postcodes and cities outside of the US, which is a bit of a shame. beautiful artwork though, and I'm sure they'll roll it out elsewhere before long. I was just thinking yesterday how sterile the personalised page looked!ReplyDelete
The one thing that annoys me about Google IG is that the feeds don't update often enough. If you take the BBC News feed for example and compare it to how it displays as a gadget, many news items are missed out, and the order is completely wrong. This is true for many feeds that update regularly, and with the BBC one, for example, the order is important with the top stories being at the top of the feed. Google IG messes this up.Replies
BBC is in England which is 5 hours ahead of the American Eastern Coast ( plus our landscapes are different)Delete
You're right Ian it does mix things up, I was testing out a feed of my own, I deleted some entries from it about a week ago and google still has them - so they must have cached it or something :S.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 4:48 AM
Great new feature, were can I dl this ?ReplyDelete
great feature, I just dont think they are "childish themes", artistic ones, maybe, not childish. The postcodes worked for me, in Brazil.ReplyDelete
Ok finally worked for me, it works only atReplyDelete
I use google.com/ig, and I can't seem to find this feature. Maybe something to do that I'm in Norway?ReplyDelete
From what I remember, I used the correct link to the personalized homepage in the post.ReplyDelete
Always remember this rule:
New features are only implemented in the US version of a service/product
After they're tested and they're reliable enough, the features will be added in the localized versions as well.
That's why, it's a good idea to select en-US in Picasa Web Albums or to select "English" when you go to download Google Desktop.
If you can't see the feature at google.com/ig, try this. Type:ReplyDelete
in the address bar and hit enter. You should see a box that lets you choose a theme. I hope it works this way.
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 6:57 AM
I'm sorry but, Ionut, your tip did not work for me. Instead, it just popped up a small empty blue box with one empty grey button that when clicked, closes the blue box. I'm guessing that empty grey button was a malformed "cancel" button. Apart from that, nothing else happens.ReplyDelete
Any alternate javascript? Pleasee?
Haha, thanks for your help.
They must be rolling it out.ReplyDelete
I don't have it yet.
I have used google home-page for a while, but just switched to Netvibes. I guess I will have to give Google another try.ReplyDelete
I'm impressed, those are pretty nice! Childish but sophisticated.ReplyDelete
Now if only I could clean up all that account and search clutter!
Interesting that my tabs are all one color. It would be nice to have a matching tabs color scheme.
nothing here, yet. 10.12 am, cali time.ReplyDelete
i can't play with it to.ReplyDelete
zuerich 18:24.
In order to use the feature you need to use www.google.com/ig AND set english as default language.ReplyDelete
nope, dosen't work for me.ReplyDelete
did all of that. it really seams that not every user got this future, nomather where he has his home.
Pretty strange. I could see the option to change the theme in all the accounts I've tried and I'm not in the US. It probably depends on the data center (not all of them have the new code) you hit and it will be available to everyone in a short while.ReplyDelete
I couldn't use this feature with my localized version(I'm from Poland), but once I changed the language to English, the "select theme" button appeared in the upper right corner and it works just fine.ReplyDelete
I guess typing "http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en" in the address bar might be the solution (I'm not sure tho :)
These are beautiful! I've been using the personalized homepage almost since it was first available, and I think this is the nicest addition yet. The only problem is I can't decide which one I like best. I think I'm on my third theme now, and it's the tea house theme because I think it's cute and my son will get a kick out of it. Having the ability to change the theme automatically would be a neat idea - every hour/day/week/month/etc., just have it select another one either at random or in a user-determined sequence.ReplyDelete
For the record, I'm in Canada, and inputting my postal code seems to have worked - I set it on the Sweet Dreams theme last night, which featured a moon, and this morning the sun was up on it. Of course, this is still on the .com domain.
I can't wait to see more themes as they become available.
I LOVE the themes!ReplyDelete
I have the city scape on because it just looks so nice.
Its currently night on mines... Example:
(the main site is not up btw, in development)
Has to be the coolest thing Google have done with IG.
Maybe later they will have a Themes category for people to share themes they have made.
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 2:18 PM
nice themes and most important for homepages... fast loading!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 3:26 PM
not available in Atl, GA yet... :(ReplyDelete
Very very nice. Liked it right away and used them too. Makes my google pages much more appealing. Homey even. I will look forward to seeing what is to come.ReplyDelete
Night and day scenes seem to be working with my English postcode now - very neat! It really does make the page far more homey and welcoming.ReplyDelete
I like this word:ReplyDelete
homey, also homy
adj. Informal.
Having a feeling of home; comfortable; cozy.
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 4:41 PM
From what I see, only the Bus Stop theme changes depending on the weather:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 20, 2007 at 8:09 PM
Try the time ones at 3:14am. This is (I presume) when it changes to something weird. 3:14, of course, is the first digits of pi, so this is why it is chosen (the sweet dreams theme has the greek letter pi in the sky made out of stars at 3:14).ReplyDelete
If you can't be bothered waiting to 3:14 am, you can do this to apply the css:
1. Get firefox with web developer toolbar
2. press Ctrl-Shift-E to open the css editor.
3. Open the correct css file. For example, the teahouse theme one is here: http://www.google.com/ig/skins/teahouse/teahouse_3.14am.css
3. Copy the CSS from the file and switch back to the Google homepage, then paste it in the Edit CSS panel under Embedded styles.
It shouldn't be too hard to make a greasemonkey extension to do this stuff. (But I don't know how to)
It appears that the CSS style sheets change ever 2 hours normally although noon and midnight are named accordingly.ReplyDelete
ie. For Noon in the Teahouse CSS
and for Midnight in the same:
Easter Eggs will be found by trial and error I am guessing.
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2007 at 5:57 AM
It seems that there is also inconsistency in the Google gadgets that is highlighted by this theme change. The Calendar gadget font size is now much smaller than the rest of the page. The Google Reader gadget title is not bold and does not follow the theme when font color changes.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 21, 2007 at 6:11 AM
Anonymous said...ReplyDelete
not available in Atl, GA yet... :(
I do not believe it has anything to do with geographical location??!!
(Can anyone throw some light on this??)
I believe, the 'upgrade' rollout is based on which sets of servers your particular account is related to.
I still have not seen the change implement on my Personalised Home Page.
Wait and watch, I guess.
The regional time based themes change at 2 hour intervals, there is a separate stylesheet for each interval.ReplyDelete
Accessing the Stylesheet
THEME - Should be replaced with a valid theme name. The regional time themes are; beach, cityscape, teahouse, sweetdreams and winterscape (Used "4pm" stylesheet for the example links).
TIME - Should be placed with one of the accepted time intervals, these are; "2am", "3.14am" (the Easter Egg), "4am", "6am", "8am", "10am", "noon", "2pm", "4pm", "6pm", "8pm", "10pm" and "midnight".
Background Image
Background Overlay Image
http://www.google.com/ig/images/skins/THEME/TIME/header_bg.gif (This image is usually .GIF because it is uses transparency to overlay the background image, however sometimes it is overlaid without using transparency. In these cases the file is called header_bg.jpg).
This is good - adds some life to the homepage.ReplyDelete
However when I first sign in to google - it does not show me the themed homepage. For that, every time I need to click on My Account and then to Persnolized Page.
Any clue why I cannot get the themed homepage at first go?
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2007 at 12:48 PM
to keep the personalized google homepage you need to make your home page address www.google.com/ig Hope that helpsReplyDelete
Um.. can't you just set your OS clock to 3:14am to see it?ReplyDelete
Still don't have this in New York! I've been using ig for a long time... where's my themes??ReplyDelete
Common here in UK we do want to have themes !!!!! So badly I'm even on US Googl e until then =)))))ReplyDelete
I like the "Bus Stop" theme. What is the CSS referencing to make the image change? Referencing the zip (I now) but it is the weather channel?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2007 at 11:06 PM
i think it's fantastic, i love the cityscape theme although i wish it interacted with the weather moreReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 7, 2007 at 7:57 AM
I love the new themes. Using the city scape. Thank you, thank you, thank you.ReplyDelete
i reeeeaaaally want to make my own css for it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 24, 2007 at 9:50 PM
i´m using the teahouse ... is so so so great!...ReplyDelete
lovely... so many differents things..
also i was trying the bus stop, n is pretty good for my weather ...
i love them!
- AnonymousApril 26, 2007 at 10:45 AM
I am using these themes for a long time but now I got a problem: everything was reset!!!!! And every time I try to setup everything as it was, when I choose the theme, everything is reset again.ReplyDelete
Is anyone having this problem as well?
Works in Australia =)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 14, 2007 at 10:25 PM
is it for Pakistan as well or only some of the themes go with this country.ReplyDelete
how the hell do u install this theme?? i carnt c anything 2 say install,and thew other themes wont work on my pc why??? oh why?????ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 14, 2007 at 7:07 AM
Nice concept. The existing cute and childish themes are a good demonstration, but Google needs to add themes with a professional appearance. Even extending the theme across it's products for the logged on user.ReplyDelete
iGoogle will not dislpay my themed page as a home page. It always reverts to the default Google and makes me sign in to iGoogle even though I have set my homepage to iGoogle (http://www.google.co.uk/ig?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&hl=en)ReplyDelete
Can anyone help?
- AnonymousOctober 17, 2007 at 5:35 PM
I like this feature, and I created a really usable homepage.Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any way to install it.I can always go look at it at the website, but no luck in keeping it.I also cannot find any answers to why, nor any instructions.How does one contact a real person at Google?ReplyDelete
These new homepage themes is a great idea, im stuck with my net reasearch 12 hours a day its refreshing to see such colorful and sweet images..like the teahouse....could it be even nicer if its animated???ReplyDelete
We need new themes to choose from, maybe holiday ones perhaps?ReplyDelete
I see there are new themes available but I can't get them to actually install. I've tried in Firefox and IE. Anybody solve this problem yet?ReplyDelete
I'm at a loss as to why people aren't able to use these themes. I've never had any problems since they debuted and I'm so pleased that there are new themes now (finally!). My current favorite is "Autumn" and I'm wondering if it'll change to "Winter" on 12/22!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 25, 2007 at 1:08 PM
I can't change the theme back to default as it appears the "select theme" button has been disabled. Anyone know how to change the theme to default?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 15, 2008 at 7:50 PM
I can't change my city. How does one do that? If I simply re-select my current theme I do not get a prompt to change the city. Please helpReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM
how do you change the background skins on google?????ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 28, 2009 at 3:23 AM
i like them they have some great pictures when i go on the internet (and i go on alot!!)ReplyDelete
i hope you all will enjoy them as much as me, i can't wait to see the haloween theme!:-)
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2009 at 5:03 AM
how can we get the themes??ReplyDelete
Google rocks!!!ReplyDelete
- LadySovereignMarch 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM
google is WAY better than bing....bing tries to hard....google actually gives u what u want...but too many google adsReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 15, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Google is AWESOME!!! It is soooooooooooooooooooo much better than bing, or ask, or you know those other lame search engines. Google is AWESOME!!!!!:)ReplyDelete
how can i change the theme of translate page of google?ReplyDelete
it`s white page,makes my eyes pain!
plz...help me!
- AnonymousMay 25, 2010 at 10:25 AM
i have no idear how to use this website and no i am not just stupid it is just really hard to understand can any one help me please!!!!!:-0ReplyDelete
it cant workReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 19, 2010 at 4:04 AM
I made a theme while logged in on my gmail account and my theme works good but when I log out my theme gets lost.ReplyDelete
hello everyone.....need sum help!!!ReplyDelete
my google theme seems to be working great it looks very appealing but i need an undo option.
i had the theme already selected but was telling a friend f mines of this feature so removed my current theme. now i want the same theme back but can't locae it....dont even remember itz name:-(
- AnonymousAugust 21, 2010 at 7:57 AM
Hey Guys,ReplyDelete
I dont get it, how do I customize MY google homepage into a design I want?
- AnonymousSeptember 19, 2011 at 4:06 PM
i been working on my homepage and i cant get to anything it froze up on me. i am so mad at this time.ReplyDelete
Nice themes! If you want a bigger selection to choose from visit http://www.chrome-theme.org to grab all kinds of hd google backgrounds!ReplyDelete
The BBC is located in England which is 5 hours ahead of the American Eastern Cost ( plus our landscapes are different )ReplyDelete

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- A purely functional editor core;
- Keybindings written as parsers of the input;
- Emacs, Vim and Cua (subset) emulations provided by default;
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- Get it from Hackage. Configure, compile and install Yi as you would do for any other Cabal package. See also above-mentioned (2.3 Platform Support).
- Setup configure fails with
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- As the Hackage descriptions say, yi-gtk and yi-vty are only for versions of older than Yi 0.3. You really should be running the latest development (GitHub) or stable (Hackage) versions of Yi, so don't try to install these two packages. Yi supports VTY and Gtk2hs directly in the yi package now.
- On Mac OS X if you get an error message similar to this:
yi: can't load .so/.DLL for: gthread-2.0 (dlopen(libgthread-2.0.dylib, 10): image not found)
- then your dynamic library search path variable is probably not set correctly. You can set it (in Bash) using:
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib
- (Adjust the specific path to your system. You can find the right location using locate libgthread)
- On Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) if you get the following error:
Loading package cairo-0.11.1 ... <command line>: can't load .so/.DLL for: pixman-1 (dlopen(/opt/local/lib/libpixman-1.dylib, 9): no suitable image found. Did find: /opt/local/lib/libpixman-1.dylib: mach-o, but wrong architecture) cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: yi-0.6.2.4 failed during the building phase. The exception was: ExitFailure 1
- then the problem is that GHC currently only supports linking against i386 libraries, and your ports are compiled for x86_64. To fix, recompile your ports with the +universal variant like so:
port install installed +universal
- Compilation fails with errors about template-haskell or data-accessor:
Add constraints about which release of those libraries to use.
$ cabal install yi --constraint="data-accessor < 0.2.1" --constraint="template-haskell < 2.4"
Default key bindings
CUA key bindings
File operations
|Open file.
|Save the current file.
|Quit the editor.
Cursor/selection movement
|Move cursor forward one character.
|Move cursor back one character.
|Move cursor down one line.
|Move cursor down one line.
|Extend selection forward one character.
|Extend selection back one character.
|Extend selection down one line.
|Extend selection up one line.
|Move cursor forward one word.
|Move cursor back one word.
|Move cursor to beginning of line.
|Move cursor to end of line.
|Move cursor to beginning of document.
|Move cursor to end of document.
Miscellaneous operations
|Incremental search.
|Cut the selected area and save it to the clipboard
|Copy the selected area to the clipboard
|Paste contents of clipboard at cursor.
|Undo last operation.
|Redo last operation.
Vim key bindings
Emacs key bindings
C = Control
M = Meta = Alt|Esc
|C-x C-f
|"Find" file i.e. open/create a file in buffer
|C-x C-s
|Save the file
|C-x C-w
|Write the text to an alternate name
|C-x i
|Insert file at cursor position
|C-x b
|Create/switch buffers
|C-x C-b
|Show buffer list
|C-x k
|Kill buffer
|Suspend Yi
|C-x C-c
|Close down Yi
Basic movement
|Forward char
|Backward char
|Previous line
|Next line
|Forward one word
|Backward one word
|Beginning of line
|End of line
|One page up
|Scroll down one page
|Beginning of text
|End of text
|Repeat the following command n times
|Repeat the following command 4 times
|Delete a char
|Delete word
|Delete word backwards
|Kill line
|Set beginning mark (for region marking for example)
|"Kill" (delete) the marked region region
|Copy the marked region
|"Yank" (paste) the copied/killed region/line
|Yank earlier text (cycle through kill buffer)
|C-x C-x
|Exchange cursor and mark
|Transpose two chars
|Transpose two words
|Make letters uppercase in word from cursor position to end
|Simply make first letter in word uppercase
|Opposite to M-u
|Quit the running/entered command
|C-x u
|Undo previous action
|Undo previous action
|Search forward
|Search backward
|Query replace
|Space or y
|Replace this occurrence
|Del or n
|Don't replace
|Replace all following occurrences
|ENTER or q
|Quit replace
|C-x 2
|Split window vertically
|C-x o
|Change to other window
|C-x 0
|Delete window
|C-x 1
|Close all windows except the one the cursors in
DIRectory EDitor (dired)
|C-x d
|Start up dired
|C (large C)
|Mark for erase
|Delete right away
|e or f
|Open file or directory
|Re-read directory structure from file
|Mark with *
|Move to next line
|Quit dired
|Rename file
|Remove mark
|Delete files marked with D
|Create directory
C, C++ and Java Modes
|Move to first (non-space) char in this line
|Attach this line to previous
|Formatize and indent comment
|Beginning of statement
|End of statement
|C-c C-c
|Comment out marked area
- How do I install Yi for development?
- Fork the repository on GitHub, then clone your version to your machine. Push to your repo on GitHub, and then make merge requests.
- What are some of the dependancies?
- There is a rather long list of dependencies for Yi, check the yi.cabal file for a list.
- If you are on Mac OS X and are using MacPorts, then these will not be included in the GHC in that distribution. Many of the dependancies are in MacPorts (for example: ghc, ghc-devel, alex, and gtk2hs). However, you may have some trouble building with Cabal-1.5.2, since it is a development version of Cabal. To work around these issues, you might have to add the line "Build-Type: Simple" to the .cabal files in the above required packages.
How to Configure Yi
You can find some example configs at https://github.com/yi-editor/yi/tree/master/example-configs
A good way to start is to copy yi.hs in your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/yi directory (create it if needed, usually ~/.config/yi), and hack as needed.
GError on startup
I get the error message "yi.exe: <<System.Glib.GError.GError>>" when I try to run yi.
Sometimes this is a result of yi not being able to find the contents of the art directory when trying to start in graphical mode (e.g. Gtk or Pango). Check that the install has be done correctly or use the VTY mode ($ yi -f vty).
For more detail on the error, modify main in Yi/Main.hs to catch GError:
Right finalCfg -> do catchGError (do when (debugMode finalCfg) $ initDebug ".yi.dbg" startEditor finalCfg state) (\(GError dom code msg) -> fail msg)
Note that more recent versions of Yi (e.g. from the GitHub repo) no longer simply display the anonymous GError but instead provide a more detailed error message (making the above code snippet unnecessary).
Get the repo here:
darcs get --partial http://code.haskell.org/yi/
Work on whatever you please, patches are always welcome. :)
Otherwise, see the complete list of open issues here: http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/issues/list
(Note you can start working on all issues in New/Accepted state, regardless of the owner of the issue. -- you can send an email to the list with your plan if unsure)
Post your questions and follow up on the mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel
Some other pending tasks are described below.
Write access policy
One does not need write access to the repository to contribute. Use "darcs send" to send your patches to the Yi development mailing list; someone else can apply them.
Write access can however be granted, with the following disclaimer:
- All people with write access can apply patches without prior approval. If one thinks a patch would be controversial, it might be a good idea to discuss it on the list though.
- Try to not break the build. (By Murphy's law, if you do so it will happen at the most annoying moment...) So, always try to build before pushing patches. Bypassing Darcs's test build to record a patch indicates you should further improve your patch.
- I can at any time rollback a patch for whatever reason. This however should not upset the author of the patch. Most contributions are welcome, so a patch revert normally would only mean that a detail or two need to be worked out. (eg. it breaks an important feature in some configuration, etc.)
Yi ideas
This section is meant to gather ideas people have for Yi.
- Evolution to an IDE:
- Show exact location of compilation errors: 80% of an haskell project
- Support for the ghci debugger & others: 10 % of an haskell project (Added bonus: greath for learning: trough the debugger, people learn the real execution flow of an haskell program. Better if this is done inside an editor)
- Integration of refactoring tools : 5 %
- Edition: only 5%
- An extension to GHCi to support documentation of symbols.
- This seems to be (reasonably) straightforward, as GHCi already has :info. It would mean hacking the type environment (what about values?) to add documentation information. The main problem would seem to be populating this --- maybe hack haddock to produce something from the library docs? I assume that using package GHC uses the parent RTS (package GHC seems to be the way to go, but more investigation is required --- don?)
- Views on data
- Rather than just editing a file, you would open a view onto the file, i.e. there is no longer a 1-1 correspondence between buffers and files. Why? Well, for aggregate buffers (i.e., editing multiple files in the one view), or for multiple views of a file (e.g. AST and source-level). There would be some primitive ops for editing a buffer (insertChar, delete, etc.), which would then call update functions on anything observing that file.
- Remote attach so I can work from home, but still use a remote machine
- Like Emacs's server?
- Haddock documentation
- (no brainer), maybe associate with .hi files for binaries.
- Maybe a class
YiShow, which all config items must be a member of? This is to emulate describe-variable
- Support for collaborative editing. This would be very good for #haskell work, and the text editor Gobby and its Obby protocol seem to provide a candidate way of doing things.
Borrowing from other editors
Take some ideas from emacs, some from vi, but don't stick them all together without a single core philosophy. Otherwise, you'll end up with an editor that looks like it was thrown together. Some people come from an emacs background, some from vi, some from elsewhere, and ALL of them will want yi to behave like their regular editor. The best way to do this is to have a single person make all the decisions on behaviour.
Coming from an Emacs background, I think a few things are essential, mainly the introspection capabilities of Emacs.
Emacs goodness
The following are things I like about Emacs, as an extensible environment, and miss in Yi:
- Really good online documentation
- Emacs can tell you a lot about a function or variable with a keypress--- the current value, where it is declared, and a hypertext formation string
- Hooks-Extensibility
- All (good) apps allow users to extend, through, e.g., hooks --- a list of functions that are run before/after some event (like saving a file)
- List of must-have features
- http://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2008/12/emacs-test.html
Emacs badness
So, why replace it?:
- ELisp
- Dynamically scoped, Dynamically typed, ugly, old. 'Nuff said
- What's a Parser?
- A lot of apps in emacs do stuff with text, usually text that is in some language. There is no standard parser (like, e.g. parsec), so a lot of it is ugly handwritten spaghetti. This also means that adding analysis tools isn't really done (or done nicely).
- ELisp again
- Haskell is a lot cleaner to write, especially because of the large number of libraries.
(See also WhyDoesElispSuck on the Emacs wiki.)
Emacs maybeness (?)
Some things that are sometimes bad, sometimes good:
- Everything is a buffer
- Makes some sense, but sometimes doesn't. It is nice to have uniform key bindings do the right thing (e.g., C-Space sets the mark, and the region can then be used, e.g. to delete a sequence of emails in Wl) Sometimes, however, you just want some sort of GUI widget.
- OTOH, having the minibuffer be a special kind of buffer is a good idea.
- Properties
- It is possible to associate arbitrary properties with symbols. This means you can annotate a symbol and then use that information at a later date
- good things
- modal key editing -> configuration system is powerful enough!
- light weight -> fast startup -> yi has this :)
- Interface to the runtime
- The scheduler, docs, etc.
- Introspection of e.g. what processes are running.
- There are already libraries in Haskell for processes, but they don't give Yi any extra information --- we really want a layer on top.
- Y I is the most recursive acronym. (Read it as combinators).
- 義, pronounced yi, means righteousness, one of the five virtues of confucianism.
- Yi is the symbol for a yobi - the largest binary prefix, meaning 2^80
External links
- Blog: http://yi-editor.blogspot.com/
- Haddock: http://projects.haskell.org/yi/doc/
- Repository: http://code.haskell.org/yi/
- Issues tracker: http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/issues
- Hackage page: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi


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WILSON: Yes.
GROSS: And the producer at all of that.
WILSON: The show runner of our show who is insanely brilliant, and all of us on "The Office" would follow him into battle because he such a great guy. Greg said, Dwight has an adolescent love of hierarchies, and to me that phrase sums it all up. It's kind of all you need to know. The other thing, so Dwight is a militant dweeb ass-kisser. Can you say ass-kisser on FRESH AIR? All right. Good. And then I love the fact that he's, we discover later on that he's a beet farmer and that makes total sense, 'cause you ever meet a farmer, they can't quite ever fit in, in society. They may try as hard as they want. They can play it cool, they can do whatever they want, they can't really fit into city life no matter how much they try. They're just more in tune with the dirt and the tides and the seasons and the wolves than, you know, human interaction.
GROSS: Well, you mentioned that, you know, Greg Daniels told you that he has this like almost childish love of hierarchy.
WILSON: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: And at the beginning of "The Office," Dwight is the most loyal lieutenant imaginable to Michael...
WILSON: Yes.
GROSS: ...the boss of this branch. But then he senses he can have that power, and it looks like Michael's going to leave and he can become the new Michael. And then, you know, all bets are off, like you want that power for yourself.
WILSON: Yes.
GROSS: And you just become like such the commander, as opposed to the lieutenant. Was that a change in character for you when that change happened to Dwight?
WILSON: No. It wasn't. I think that - and they're so canny, the writers on our show, because they're always creating textures for me to play, as Dwight. I mean this last season was Dwight's heartbreak, you know...
GROSS: Right. Yes, with Angela.
WILSON: ...with Angela, and that was a whole other side of Dwight that got to come out. You know, in season four, sides of Dwight that no one had ever seen before. And that was what you're referring to is a period of time when Dwight was potentially trying to rest control of the office from Michael, and I think it was a deadly combination. It wasn't in Dwight's nature to do that. He only did it when encouraged by his little Lady Macbeth, Angela. So when Angela, the head accountant, whispered those thoughts of power into his ear, you know, much like Macbeth, Dwight tried to rise to the challenge.
GROSS: They always blame the woman.
WILSON: But as Pam on the show said, you know, I have a vacuum cleaner that could also run this office pretty well.
GROSS: Well, I have to play a clip from "The Office." This is a classic scene. It's Take Your Daughter to Work Day, and you're like at the head of what's almost like a little classroom, like all the daughters are sitting in chairs, and you're in front, reading to them and playing your recorder or flute-a-phone.
WILSON: Recorder.
GROSS: Recorder.
WILSON: Yes. Part of my music nerd heritage.
GROSS: And Michael is at the door watching. So here's the scene.
WILSON: (as Dwight Schrute) That was "Greensleeves," a traditional English ballad about the beheaded Anne Boleyn. And now, a very special treat, a book my Grandmutter used to read me when I was a kid. This is a very special story. It's called "Struwwelpeter," by Heinrich Hoffman, from 1864. The great tall tailor always comes to little girls that suck their thumbs - are you listening, Sasha? Right? And 'ere they dream when he's about, he takes his great sharp scissors out, and then cuts their thumbs clean off.
STEVE CARELL: (as Michael Scott) Dwight. Dwight...
WILSON: (as Dwight Schrute) There's a photo...
CARELL: (as Michael Scott) What the hell are you reading to them?
WILSON: (as Dwight Schrute) These are cautionary tales for kids. My Grandmata used to read these...
CARELL: (as Michael Scott) Yeah, you know what? No, no. no. no. no. They, no. The kids don't want to hear some weirdo book that your Nazi war criminal grandmother gave you.
DELANEY RUTH FARRELL: (Sasha) What's a Nazi?
CARELL: (as Michael Scott) What's a Nazi?
WILSON: (as Dwight Schrute) Nazi was a fascist movement...
CARELL: (as Michael Scott) Don't.
WILSON: (as Dwight Schrute) ...from the 1930s...
CARELL: (as Michael Scott) Don't! Don't! Don't talk about Nazis in front of - you know what? They're going to have nightmares, so why don't you just shut it?
WILSON: (as Dwight Schrute) I was gonna teach the children how to make cornhusk dolls.
CARELL: (as Michael Scott) Why don't you just leave? OK?
(as Dwight Schrute) OK.
SPENCER DANIELS: (as Jake) Bye, Mr. Poop.
CARELL: (as Michael Scott) All right. There goes Mr. Poop. Now, who likes Dane Cook?
UNIDENTIFIED CHILD ACTORS: (As characters) I do, I do!
GROSS: That's such a great scene.
WILSON: Written by the great Mindy Kaling.
GROSS: Oh, who's also a member of the cast.
WILSON: Yes.
GROSS: And that was my guest Rainn Wilson in a scene from "The Office." Your character Dwight is always so intense and so inappropriate...
WILSON: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: ...as he was in his choice of readings. You know, you auditioned for the part of Michael, of the boss of "The Office," right...
WILSON: Yes.
GROSS: Before getting the part of Dwight. So what was your audition for the part of Michael like? This is the part that Steve Carrell plays.
WILSON: They keep wanting to put it on the DVD of my audition as Michael. I was terrible. It was awful. It was never meant to be. It was just one of those things that I just basically did my Ricky Gervais impersonation because I really didn't know what to do with the character.
GROSS: And Ricky Gervais played the boss in the original British version.
WILSON: In the English series. Yeah.
GROSS: Yeah.
WILSON: And I knew I was hungering for Dwight. And I knew Dwight was the one that was right in my wheelhouse. And I was like, oh, let me at this one. This one is - I've got to get this guy. And I remember there was some monologue I was doing about how I could drink my own urine.
WILSON: And I was like, aw, I want to say that. I want to say that line so bad. So my Dwight audition, needless to say, was a lot better than my Michael Scott audition.
GROSS: So what did you have to do as either?
WILSON: Oh. Well, it was a very arduous audition process. I was actually the very first person to audition for the show. Period. I had a good relationship with the casting director. And I came in and did my terrible Michael, and then I really hit a home run with Dwight. And then I kept calling - like, what's happening? What's happening? They're auditioning people. They're auditioning Michaels and Jims. And they're having a hard time finding Michaels and Jims.
And it was like three or four months later, finally they're like, OK, we're going to have callbacks. And the callback - normally when you audition for a television show, they have these - called network tests, where they bring the actors literally into like, a conference room at NBC, or wherever.
And they parade them in like show cattle, one after another. And they do their little - three little scenes in front of the executives who either glower at them or laugh hyper-hysterically. But Greg, you know, because Greg created the show "King of the Hill," which was very successful and in syndication. So as soon as someone's done that on television, they figure, well, this guy must know what he's doing.
And fortunately, in our case Greg, does know what he's doing. But he secured our location for a weekend, and he brought in all the actors that were called back; and he basically cycled us in and out like a giant revolving door. We had to be prepared to stay there all day long, and he mixed and matched us in various ways. And we improvised with each other, and we did written scenes.
And we'd get thrown new material, and then we'd have to go out and wait for a few hours. So it was this kind of wonderful process of kind of digging in and exploring the characters in order for us to - for them to arrive at their final casting decision. And then they brought their favorites to the network, and showed them the tape of what they had shot with them.
GROSS: Now, Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam - the receptionist on the show - was recently on our show.
WILSON: Horrible woman.
GROSS: Yeah. She was so dull. Ugh.
WILSON: Isn't she awful? Yeah.
GROSS: So I want to play you an excerpt of that interview, in which she talked about you.
WILSON: Uh-oh.
GROSS: So here's the excerpt of the interview with Jenna Fischer.
GROSS: Are there any scenes from "The Office" that were too funny to get through without laughing, and you had to keep reshooting them?
JENNA FISCHER: Oh, so many. So many. You know what happens is, I seem to every year get tickled by a new actor in a way where I just, I cannot do a scene with them. And the first year it was Rainn Wilson. You know, Pam and Dwight did not have a lot of interaction so anytime we did have a scene one-on-one, I just couldn't get through it. Rainn Wilson - he has this weird way that he stands, where he pushes his pelvis and his gut sort of out.
GROSS: So that's Jenna Fischer, talking about you on "The Office." So how did you start doing that as Dwight's way of standing? And he also - am I wrong in saying he's often standing a little too close to the person he's talking to?
WILSON: Yes. He's not so good at interpersonal boundaries.
GROSS: Right.
WILSON: And that includes standing that way. I don't know. You know, it's just like you do - that's just what we do as actors, I think, you know. My haircut for Dwight was very important. It was very important to me that I have the least flattering haircut possible to my head - which I designed specifically, thank you very much. And also the fact that he still wears a beeper, which is about eight years after beepers have been completely discontinued, because he probably has some number that someone might still have.
But all of these things put together, and then it kind of comes into your body. And I think your job as the actor is to let these impulses flow through you, and not stifle them. So if you have - you know, again, he has this love of hierarchies, and this love of power. Well, he's going to assert his power with his pelvis. You know?
WILSON: Maybe stand inappropriately close to someone. And it's kind of like an alpha male type of thing.
BIANCULLI: Rainn Wilson, speaking to Terry Gross in 2008. The finale of NBC's "The Office" airs next Thursday. Coming up, film critic David Edelstein reviews "The Great Gatsby." This is FRESH AIR.
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If you've come anywhere near a tech site in the last year or so, you've heard it all before. "iOS is getting stale compared to Android! It needs some new ideas!" Whether that's actually true is up for (heated) debate, but those with an open mind are usually willing to acknowledge that Apple and Google could afford to swap a few ideas when it comes to their mobile OSes.
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For those who aren't familiar with Google Now, it can be a little complex to explain due to its wide range of services. (Check out Ryan Paul's writeup about it last August here on Ars.) On one side, Google Now does Siri-like voice actions, but that's not the part we want Apple to take from Android. The part we want is Google Now's ability to provide notifications and other services based on a range of contextual information, such as your location, whether you're physically moving or not, your schedule, and so on."Google Now can display similar routing and traffic notifications for places that the user intends to go, by scanning the upcoming appointments in the user's calendar. When the user approaches a mass transit station, the software displays transportation schedules. It can also inform the user when they are close to points of interest—but living in the incredibly dull suburbs outside of LA, I have yet to see this feature in action," Paul wrote in his piece.
But Google Now can do other things too, like examine your past search history in order to find out which sports teams you follow regularly or whether you've looked up a flight recently. The service will then start offering you notifications with updates about this information. Or, as Ars Technical Director Jason Marlin pointed out, Google Now can remind you that visitors are in town based on forwarded itineraries in your e-mail, or alert you that a package is out for delivery—all without you having to set up those kinds of notifications.
There will certainly be users who don't like the idea of Apple automatically filtering through their e-mail or constantly reading their GPS location. But it should be something you can opt in and out of easily. And for those of us that are more comfortable with such a feature, wouldn't it be nice if Siri could perform these same (or similar) functions?
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There are some device settings we just plain use more than others on a daily basis. For me, it's the Wi-Fi on/off toggle on my iPhone, because my very Comcastic home Internet connection can't seem to stay up when I need it. For others, it might be the screen brightness control, the Do Not Disturb switch, or the Personal Hotspot toggle.Android users are able to access certain settings via their own version of the Notification Center, allowing them a quick and easy way to toggle these without having to jump all the way out of an app, into the Settings app, and back. As reviews editor Florence Ion said, "It's frustrating having to switch back to the settings to take care of the brightness if I'm in the middle of watching something on Hulu."
If you could pull down the Notification shade while inside of a third-party app, you could adjust the brightness (or turn off Wi-Fi, or turn on Do Not Disturb) without having to leave the app in the first place. At the very least, a feature like this would greatly reduce the number of taps required in order to get a task done, thereby simplifying the usability and making the iOS experience that much more enjoyable.
Autocorrect and spelling suggestionsIt's no secret that Apple's method of offering spelling suggestions and autocorrect can be a huge frustration for iOS users. You're just typing along with your thumbs when iOS decides something you've written—perhaps street names or just plain obscure words—isn't right. At this point, iOS begins to tell you what word it's going to autocorrect to if you don't tap on your original word to tell it "no." If you're like me, you tap on your original word over and over and over with your fat fingers, but iOS autocorrects to its own word anyway. Then you have to backspace over the entire thing and start over—usually battling with iOS yet again over the spelling of your original word. Wash, rinse, repeat.
And, of course, there is no directly user-editable word dictionary in iOS. You either have to enter your obscure words as text macros (which is not exactly the original intention of that feature), or simply hope the app in question eventually figures out the spelling you wanted after entering it a thousand times.
There has to be a more elegant way of doing this, right? Android users seem to have the better end of the stick when it comes to handling autocorrections and spelling. When typing out a weird word, the OS will offer alternate spellings as buttons above the keyboard. But more importantly, if it manages to autocorrect your word to something you didn't want, a single backspace will restore the original spelling. And, it will ask you if you want to add that word to your dictionary to boot. For the sake of all our sanity, Apple should adopt this kind of autocorrect behavior, stat!
The ability to set default apps
You know the drill: perhaps you prefer Chrome over mobile Safari on your iPhone, but every time you tap a link from e-mail it opens in Safari anyway. Or perhaps you like Google Maps or Waze, but anytime you try to get directions from another app, it forces you to use Apple's Maps app. There's no way to change which apps are used by the OS as defaults for these actions—you're held hostage with Apple's own apps as the default.Do iOS users know how to beat a dead horse on this topic? Yes. But that doesn't make this feature any less desirable, especially since our Android-using friends get to throw it in our faces all the time. When they launch a new browser, the OS asks them if they want to set it as the default—thanks to the fact that Android can recognize when you have multiple apps installed to perform similar functions. Alternately, they can change their default apps in their settings by going into an application manager to choose whether that app launches by default for certain functions.
"The nice thing is that with pictures, for instance, I can select which app to edit in without going into another app and looking it up in the gallery," Ion said. Indeed, while perhaps not every iOS user wants this feature, enough of us care about it to make it a worthwhile addition to iOS.
Home screen shortcuts to places within appsiOS allows users to set home screen icons that act as quick bookmarks to Web apps or other Web pages in Safari. This is pretty convenient, but you can't use that same functionality to set a shortcut to a "page" or functionality within native apps. Our Android friends can, though, giving them easy access to certain information without having to navigate there every time.
"I can set a shortcut in Google Maps Navigation as an icon on my homepage. For instance, if I'm lost in the car and need to get home, all I have to do is press the icon that I made and it launches the Navigation to my home address," Ion said. "I know that iOS has this for bookmarks and the like, but I like being able to do this with specific applications."
Indeed, there are numerous iOS apps I use on a regular basis that force me to navigate all the way through several screens before getting the information I want. If I could create a new home screen icon that links directly to a certain functionality within an app—third-party or otherwise—it would significantly cut down on taps. (And in the winter when it's 11°F outside, that means less time with my poor, uncovered flesh being exposed.)
This may be the least likely of all the suggestions here, but it's one that could be potentially useful to the greatest number of users. Just think: how many of you have at least one iOS home screen shortcut to a Web page? Exactly.