Tag Archives: Emacs

The Map Library

Recently I’ve written about Wilfred Hughes’ ht library for dealing with hash tables and Nic Ferrier’s kv library for dealing with alists and plists. Nicolas Petton commented that there is also the map library, which is built into Emacs as … Continue reading

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The kv Library

The other day I wrote about Wilfred Hughes’ hash table library. In the comments, Noonian Atall remarked that Nic Ferrier also has a key/value library (kv) that’s worth taking a looking at. Whereas Hughes’ ht library is primarily concerned with … Continue reading

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Elisp Hash Table Library

If you like the simplicity and regularity that libraries such as s for strings and dash for lists provide, you should take a look at Wilfred Hughes’ ht library for working with hash tables. Hash tables are, of course, built-in … Continue reading

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Marking a Word

Today I learned something new. Or, rather, I got hit in the head with a cluebat. Peter Hwang asked how he could mark the word at point. Manuel Uberti answered that he usually uses Ctrl+Meta+SPC, which I always think of … Continue reading

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Ivy Initial Input String

If you’re an Ivy user—and you should be—you’ve probably noticed that sometimes the Ivy prompt will have an initial “^” so that the search will be anchored at the beginning of line. This happens depending on the command that called … Continue reading

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Setting Up a Lisp Development Environment

For a language as old as Lisp, there are a surprising number of queries asking how to set up a Lisp environment. If you’re a Lisper, your answer to this is probably Emacs/Slime/Quicklisp and one of the Lisp systems such … Continue reading

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Emacs Lisp Development Tools

I just stumbled across a video of John Wiegley’s talk at the 2013 Emacs Lisp Development Conference on Elisp development tools. Wiegley covers some of the tools he uses in his own development. Many of those tools will be familiar … Continue reading

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An Elisp Introduction

A couple of years ago, I wrote about Aaron Bieber’s talk to the Boston Vim Meetup on why and how he moved from Vim to Emacs. It was a great talk and worth watching if you haven’t already (especially if … Continue reading

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A Little Red Meat for Emacsers

I don’t have anything interesting to say today so here’s a little red meat for Irreal’s Emacs lovers: Functional programmers who #Lisp need #Emacs and #ParEdit.Non-functional programmers want them.Dysfunctional programmers dislike them. :) — amen zwa ကျော်ဇွာ (@AmenZwa) August 17, … Continue reading

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A Personal Emacs Package Repo

As longtime Irreal readers know, I don’t worry about my init.el very much. Rather than organize my configuration into separate, function-specific files like my more organized colleagues, I just throw everything into a single init.el. I keep thinking I should … Continue reading

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