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Coloring Camel Case

Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has a cute post that addresses the abomination known as camel case. I use the term camel case to cover actual camel case as well as any of its illegitimate siblings such as studly caps. As I’ve … Continue reading

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Massmapper

Martin Edström has announced a new package: massmapper. The idea is to make it easy to—for example—copy all the Ctrl– bindings to Super-. That’s a real pain if you try to do it piecemeal by hand but massmapper makes it … Continue reading

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Regexp Replacers

Sandra Snan over at Idiomdrottning has posted a link to some very idiosyncratic functions that seem at first to be useless or even silly but may, on second thought, actually be useful for some applications. The idea is that they’re … Continue reading

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Eat: A Preliminary Report

I’m running a little experiment. Even though I recently realized that I hardly ever use a terminal emulator, I was intrigued by this shoutout to the eat terminal emulator package. Except for the usual ankle biters, who don’t appear to … Continue reading

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The History of Vi, Vim, and Other Vi Clones

Those of you who have been around Irreal for a while know that I never enlisted in the Vi/Emacs wars. Indeed, I have decades of experience with both and hold each in the highest regard. For a long time now, … Continue reading

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Converting UltiSnips to Yasnippet

I just ran across this reddit post about Ultyas, a utility to convert UltiSnips to YASnippet format. I was about to move on but UltiSnips stirred a distant memory so I searched Irreal and found a couple of posts that … Continue reading

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A Blast From The Past: Making Gnupg Work With Emacs

I was a little bored today so I thought, “I know, I’ll upgrade all the programs I’ve installed with homebrew.” There were 58 of them that were out of date so it was probably time. I fired off brew upgade … Continue reading

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Zamansky: Learning Elisp #13

Mike Zamansky has published the latest video in his emoji project. It’s a short video but, for me, the most useful so far. That’s because it’s about something I didn’t understand very well: overlays. In the last video, Zamansky showed … Continue reading

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Running Unix v6

There are lots of people who enjoy the opportunity to experience what it was like to work on early Unix systems. That’s been possible for a long time. Indeed, there’s a cottage industry of experimenters who have built PDP emulators, … Continue reading

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The ed Video

After yesterday’s post on Thompson’s famous hack, I watched the video of Thompson’s talk at this year’s Southern California Linux Expo that Cox mentioned. That was pretty interesting as another example of Thompson’s curiosity and genius but the point for … Continue reading

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