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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Emacs Poll On Deleting And The Active Region
Virtually all GUI environments will delete a highlighted region when the 【Backspace】/【Delete】 key is pressed or when a character is inserted into the region. Emacs does not currently do that except in a few minor modes such as CUA mode. … Continue reading
R7RS WG1 Update
Via Grant Rettke over at Wisdom and Wonder I found these slides from a talk at LispNYC by John Cowan on September 13. As readers from my old blog will recall, R7RS will be split into a “small Scheme” and … Continue reading
VimGolf In Emacs
I recently saw a reference to Tim Visher’s VimGolf in Emacs videos on one of my feeds. It looked interesting so I hopped over to take a look. VimGolf is a site that poses editing challenges that are supposed to … Continue reading
Using Emacs To Convert Notes For Deft
Yesterday I wrote about Vivek Haldar’s Deft patch that allowed him to integrate his previous notes into Deft. Recall that Deft uses the first line of a note as its subject and names the file for a note deft-XXX whereas … Continue reading
Deft Filenames
I’ve written a couple of times about Deft, which I described as a lightweight alternative to Org Mode. I’m still not using it for the reasons that I gave in those posts but lots of people are. One of those … Continue reading
Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Revisited
The other day, I wrote about Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Org Mode and I wrote a little bit of elisp to insert \ldquo{}\rdquo in the buffer and then place the point between the two quote commands. I remarked at … Continue reading
Steve Jobs
I awoke this morning to the sad new that Steve Jobs had died. Of course, I was shocked but as Charlie Stross points out, I shouldn’t have been Once his illness became public knowledge his level of activity, already frenetic, … Continue reading
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Xah Lee has an interesting post that taught me something I already knew. The problem that Lee deals with is how to write an Emacs command (that is, a function callable by, say, 【Meta+x】 and the function name) that is … Continue reading
A Cool Common Lisp Tip
I wrote the other day about Zach Beane’s new Common Lisp Tips blog. Yesterday, he had a really nifty tip that solves a common problem. We’ve all had situations where we want to output something like Processed 1 file. or … Continue reading
Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Org Mode
As I was writing yesterday’s post I started to enter \rdquo{} to get an opening double quotation mark for what seemed like the millionth time. I suddenly realized that this was really stupid and a waste of time so I … Continue reading