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Remarks on EmacsGolf Challenge 1

Posted on 2013-02-15 by jcs

Apparently I was a bit sloppy with my wording because everyone missed the fact that there was a second part to this challenge. Every line that started with an “open figure” was supposed to be deleted. That was just a … Continue reading →

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Emacs Batch Text Processing

Posted on 2013-02-14 by jcs

Xah Lee has a page up on batch text processing with Emacs. The page is a recapitulation of several tips that Lee has published before. These tips were very helpful to me when I was trying to learn the Elisp … Continue reading →

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Replace Emacs?

Posted on 2013-02-13 by jcs

Lord I get tired of reading this sort of thing. The tl;dr is that: N00bs don’t like Emacs because it’s not like Notepad and thus has a steep learning curve. Most Lispers use Emacs. Because of 1. and 2. n00bs … Continue reading →

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More Multiple-Cursors Functionality

Posted on 2013-02-12 by jcs

On his Emacs Rocks twitter feed, Magnor Sveen announced some useful additions to his multiple-cursors package. If you active regions with multiple-cursors you can now perform the following operations on them Reverse the lines in the regions Sort the regions … Continue reading →

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VimGolf In Emacs: A Numbered List

Posted on 2013-02-11 by jcs

The conventional wisdom is that Vim is much more efficient—at least in keystrokes—than Emacs. In working the various VimGolf challenges and reading (or watching) other peoples’ solutions I’ve found that that’s often true but not always. A non-trivial part of … Continue reading →

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Some Common Lisp Resources

Posted on 2013-02-10 by jcs

Here’s a collection of some useful Common Lisp resources that I’ve come across recently. Getting started with Common Lisp A useful introduction to the basics of using Common Lisp for the n00b. 9 of the Best Free Lisp Books A … Continue reading →

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A First Emacs Challenge

Posted on 2013-02-09 by jcs

Xah Lee has contributed a challenge that serves as an excellent example of one of the types of problems I think we should concentrate on if we start an EmacsGolf site. I like this problem because it is a real … Continue reading →

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An Emacs Minor Mode Tutorial

Posted on 2013-02-08 by jcs

Over at the Google G+ Emacs Community, Agu Monkey has a pointer to an excellent tutorial on writing Emacs minor modes by Christopher Wellons. Most of us probably have no interest in writing a full-fledged minor mode (although Wellons’ tutorial … Continue reading →

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Stross on Ebooks

Posted on 2013-02-07 by jcs

Charlie Stross has a very interesting post on the history of ebooks. Stross, of course, is a well known Science Fiction author who earns his living writing books so he’s very familiar with the publishing industry and its history. The … Continue reading →

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Emacs Challenge?

Posted on 2013-02-05 by jcs

Some of the most popular posts here at Irreal are those in which I attempt bring the power of Emacs to bear on VimGolf problems. I like those posts too because I always learn some new tricks both by working … Continue reading →

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