Category Archives: General

Here’s a pretty hard challenge—at least I found it challenging. Given this Lorem Ipsum Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero … Continue reading →

I’ve commented many times on Xah Lee’s Emacs and Emacs Lisp tutorials. I’ve learned a lot from them and the Elisp tutorials helped me transfer my Common Lisp and Scheme knowledge to Emacs. The tutorials are on the Web and … Continue reading →

Vivkek Haldar appears to be the go to guy for Emacs quotes. Magnar Sveen’s excellent What the Emacs.d!? begins and end with a Haldar quote. Now Haldar brings us a quote from Kieran Healy on the enduring excellence of Emacs. … Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned before that Emacs configuration is a black hole that can easily swallow any spare cycles that wander into its event horizon. Part of that for me is reading how other people do it. Over at MetaSandwich, Selah has … Continue reading →

Most Irreal readers have probably already seen Mickey’s post on Evaluating Lisp Forms in Regular Expressions, but he mentions one trick that is too good to miss so I’m going to repeat it. Not too long ago I was trying … Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting VimGolf challenge that nicely demonstrates the power of CUA selection mode. Given the word frequency chart align here the 56271872 of 33950064 and 29944184 to 25956096 in 17420636 I 11764797 that 11073318 was 10078245 his 8799755 he … Continue reading →

Here’s a simple ViGolf challenge that has a simple solution in Emacs. Given (a) (abc) (abcd) (123456) turn it into ___ _____ ______ ________ That is, replace everything in the sexpr with an underscore. This is really easy with Emacs … Continue reading →