Tag Archives: Elisp

Three weeks ago, I wrote about Geoffrey Lessel’s video on writing an Emacs package to obtain a list of Pull Requests from a GitHub repository, present a chooser list, and then display the chosen PR in the default browser. That … Continue reading →

Geoffrey Lessel is an Elisp n00b. Really a n00b. He’s not sure what the car and cdr of a list are and he doesn’t understand backquotes. But he’s not afraid to dig in and discover things as he goes along. … Continue reading →

From time to time I find a reference to a New York Times article in my feed. I had to register with the NYT to be able to read them and one side effect of that registration is that every … Continue reading →

Mike Zamansky has another video up in his Using Emacs Series. The video is about his trying to use eshell more and building an eshell switcher so that he can easily switch among his active eshell instances. I really like … Continue reading →

Last month, I published a post on Finding The Intersection of Two Lists. The impetus for the post was an Emacs Stack Exchange question asking if there was a better way to find the intersection of two lists than looping … Continue reading →

I recently saw an Emacs Stack Exchange Question on how to find the intersection of two lists. The questioner asked if there was a better way than the obvious solution of looping over both lists looking for matches, a \(O(mn)\) … Continue reading →

Chris Wellons has another great post over at Null Program. This post discusses how he uses makefiles to build his Emacs packages. If you’re like most Elisp programmers, you probably write only small bits of Elisp to add to your … Continue reading →

Musa Al-hassy has a very nice Elisp reference sheet. It doesn’t cover the Elisp run-time system so such as general Lisp constructs as used by Emacs. His table of contents gives a good idea of what’s covered: Functions Variables Block … Continue reading →

I don’t have anything else interesting to say today so let’s take a look at Mike Zamansky’s post on the Advent of Code 2017 Day 1 problem. Zamansky has a nice discussion of solving this with Python and the steps … Continue reading →