Category Archives: General

Is Emacs an IDE?

Posted on 2013-02-20 by jcs

Is Emacs an IDE? Here’s one answer. Here’s another: who knows, who cares? You might as well ask if Emacs is a fingdop. Emacs is what it is regardless of whether or not we call it an IDE (or fingdop, … Continue reading →

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EmacsGolf Challenge 2

Posted on 2013-02-19 by jcs

Xah Lee sent me another suggestion for an EmacsGolf challenge. While in a whimsical mood, Lee decided to write some Elisp to convert Latin text to Fraktur (Gothic font). That’s an interesting Elisp challenge in its own right but Lee … Continue reading →

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Password Horror

Posted on 2013-02-17 by jcs

This isn’t the usual post about some nincompoop making yet another foolish security mistake. It’s about a guy who does (almost) everything right and almost loses it all. Over at the White Hat Security Blog, Jeremiah Grossman tells a chilling … Continue reading →

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Elisp

Posted on 2013-02-16 by jcs

No wonder it’s so hard to learn.

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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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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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