Monthly Archives: December 2014

Anchored Transpose

Posted on 2014-12-15 by jcs

Thanks to Tim Stewart, I stumbled across the anchored-transpose package. You can think of it as a generalization of the other transpose functions such as transpose-chars, transpose-words, transpose-sexps, and the other less used transposition functions. Instead of transposing around the … Continue reading →

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Disappointment

Posted on 2014-12-14 by jcs

Richard Posner is a 7th Circuit Federal Judge. He’s always struck me as the ideal jurist. Informed not only on the law but in many other areas, especially economics. More than a Judge, he’s an intellectual and perhaps even a … Continue reading →

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Diacritical Mark in Emacs

Posted on 2014-12-13 by jcs

I recently ran across this old post from Emacs master Mickey. In it, Mickey explores ways to enter diacritical marks in Emacs. For example, if you want resume to be rendered (properly) as résumé you need to know how to … Continue reading →

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My Solution to the Changing Times Challenge

Posted on 2014-12-12 by jcs

Last week, I posted an EmacsGolf challenge on changing times to 24-hour notation. Most of the solutions were much like mine: they used query-replace-regexp with a complicated regular expression and an even more complex replacement expression. One trick that most … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday!

Posted on 2014-12-11 by jcs

Today in history: Ada Lovelace was born. Computer programmers rejoice! pic.twitter.com/NKpYBxZMjd — Digi-Key (@digikey) December 11, 2014

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Names

Posted on 2014-12-11 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about name spaces in Emacs Lisp and mentioned Artur Malabarba’s names package. In a nice example of serendipity, Malabarba has just published a post that explains what the names package is all about1. The basic idea is … Continue reading →

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Name Spaces in Emacs Lisp

Posted on 2014-12-10 by jcs

Whenever Emacs Hackers come together to discuss what the most urgently needed enhancements to Emacs are, some sort of module system is always mentioned. In terms of Common Lisp, the idea is to add a (Common Lisp) package system to … Continue reading →

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Debugging With yasnippet

Posted on 2014-12-09 by jcs

Bin Chen has an excellent post on adding debug statements into source code using yasnippet. Us old timers are used to adding printf statements into our code to create an audit trail of the execution. There are, of course, modern … Continue reading →

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Sacha Chats with Karl Voit

Posted on 2014-12-08 by jcs

Sacha Chua has a new Emacs Chat up. This time it’s with Karl Voit. It’s a really interesting chat. Voit is concerned with managing personal information and uses Org Mode and some custom scripts to do that. One set of … Continue reading →

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Emacs Documentation

Posted on 2014-12-07 by jcs

Eric Raymond (esr) is a hero of mine. He writes great software and has done yeoman work for Emacs, including the just completed conversion of the repository to Git. Recently, he proposed that Emacs abandon info in favor of a … Continue reading →

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