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There are, I suppose, a few Lisp programmers using Emacs who resist paredit but most of the rest of us have long since succumbed to its charms. It can be a bit difficult to get used to but once you … Continue reading →

One of Lisp’s features that seem like magic to those of us brought up with C-like languages is the ability to change the code of a running process, reload it, and continue running with the new code. The amazing thing … Continue reading →

Over at Bicycle For Your Mind, macosxguru reports that despite his good intentions to stop tweaking his configuration and absorb what he already had installed, he found that there were so many excellent new packages that he had to add … Continue reading →

Eric MacAdie has a contribution to this month’s Emacs Carnival that talks about his major mistake in learning and using Emacs. That “mistake”, he says, was not embracing Emacs completely when he was introduced to it. Instead, he learned only … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Chris Maiorana’a post suggesting that writers adopt a one-line-per-sentence workflow. You can read his post on the matter to see his arguments on why. At the time, I wrote that I used … Continue reading →