Tag Archives: Emacs-lisp

Inserting Quotation Marks In Emacs Org Mode

Posted on 2011-10-03 by jcs

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 →

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Xah’s Challenge (Part 2)

Posted on 2011-07-21 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about Xah Lee’s programming challenge and gave a solution similar to Lee’s own. Today I will give another, possibly simpler, solution. We start with some constants and a couple of helper functions: (defconst brackets ‘((?( . ?)) … Continue reading →

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Xah’s Challenge

Posted on 2011-07-20 by jcs

A couple of days ago Xah Lee posed a programming challenge. The problem was to write a miniparser in your favorite language to detect mismatched bracketing characters in a set of text files. The set of brackets to be checked … Continue reading →

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