Author Archives: jcs

Emacs and Bignums

Posted on 2012-09-02 by jcs

Nic Ferrier has a great post on using bignums with Emacs Lisp. Elisp, of course, does not support bignums but Ferrier has a trick: use the Elisp interface to calc, which does support bignums, to make the necessary calculations. Ferrier … Continue reading →

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Five Lessons From Being Hacked

Posted on 2012-09-01 by jcs

Every since having Irreal suffer a malware exploit, I’ve been on the lookout for articles that will help me avoid another successful attack. I’ve already posted about several of these and today’s post is another. Since these posts have become … Continue reading →

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Arguments against call/cc

Posted on 2012-08-31 by jcs

Pascal Constanza has a post that points us to an article by Oleg Kiselyow that argues against the call/cc function. Regular readers know that I am an admirer of call/cc so I’m not sure I agree with the idea that … Continue reading →

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Some Common Lisp Tip Tweets

Posted on 2012-08-30 by jcs

Jean-Philippe Paradis over at HexstreamSoft has a very nice set of tweets on Common Lisp tips. For example, 【Meta+x】 slime-cheat-sheet opens a new frame with useful slime commands and their shortcuts. As Paradis remarks, this is virtually unknown—I sure didn’t … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to Emacs 24.2

Posted on 2012-08-29 by jcs

Just a quick note to announce that I just upgraded my Mac (OS X Lion) to Emacs 24.2 from source. The upgrade went without any problems so if you’re on a Mac, there’s no reason to wait. From the top … Continue reading →

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Impatient Mode

Posted on 2012-08-29 by jcs

You may have seen some of the posts about Chris Wellons’ Emacs HTTP Server, an HTTP server that operates from within Emacs. Now Brian Taylor has built on that to provide Impatient Mode, an Emacs package that renders an Emacs … Continue reading →

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The magic-mode-alist

Posted on 2012-08-28 by jcs

Most Emacs users know how to associate a file type with a major mode by using the auto-mode-alist variable to associate a file extension with a major mode. I recently learned of another way thanks to Xah Lee who posted … Continue reading →

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Readable S-Expressions

Posted on 2012-08-27 by jcs

Why do people keep doing this? They should stop. Now. Really. There is nothing wrong with parentheses. Lispers like them and deal with them without difficulty. There is nothing wrong with Lisp syntax. Lispers like it and deal with it … Continue reading →

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Emacs

Posted on 2012-08-26 by jcs

It’s everywhere!

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The Emacs Manual in Info

Posted on 2012-08-25 by jcs

This is definitely a note to myself. Doubtless everyone knows this but for some reason I can never seem to remember it so I am recording it in a post. If you’re an Emacs user and your initials are not … Continue reading →

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