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Killing Sentences

Recently I’ve had several occasions where I wanted to kill to the beginning of the current sentence. No problem, I thought, I’ll just write a quick bit of Elisp like (push-mark nil nil t) (backward-sentence) (kill-region) and bind it to … Continue reading

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Seriously?

Surely this is a joke. Either that or someone has way too much time on their hands. And what about the people signing it?

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SBCL 1.1.3

The fine folks at SBCL.org have released version 1.1.3 of their Common Lisp system. One of the contributed packages (SB-SPROF) failed a test on my MacBook Pro but worked fine on my iMac. It looks like a VM problem when … Continue reading

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Haldar On Editors

Vivek Haldar published a list of his most popular posts of 2012 and one that I particularly liked was My Setup. In that post, I found this quote about editors exactly right. Editors This is where the religious wars usually … Continue reading

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Moving Between Emacs Windows

As I mentioned in my winner-mode post, I recently configured Emacs to start with a frame-width of 162 columns. I’ve also added a call to split-window-right in my init.el to get the two columns of windows that I prefer. This … Continue reading

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CUA Selection Mode

Many Emacs users like CUA mode. That makes a certain amount of sense because then copy/cut/paste work in Emacs the same way it does in almost every other application. I, however, am in the camp of the traditionalists and prefer … Continue reading

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Doing the Right Thing

After a year in which we’ve seen Big Media ride roughshod over their customers and do everything they could to rein in, if not destroy, the Internet, I have a ray of sunshine for you. Hollywood and the rest of … Continue reading

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Winner Mode

In my Two From Phil post I mentioned that Phil had urged me to try winner-mode and that I was going to give it a try. For those who came in late, winner-mode captures the current window configuration and allows … Continue reading

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Symbols in Emacs Lisp

One of the hardest things for Lisp newcomers to understand is symbols. They look tantalizingly like variables from other languages and, indeed, they are often just that. But, as the new Lisper soon discovers, they are much more. Xah Lee … Continue reading

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C++

The funniest—or is it saddest—thing I’ve read about C++ in a long time.

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