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The Heisenberg Release Uncertainty Principle
Steve Purcell formulates a fundamental law of software engineering Heisenberg's Release Uncertainty Principle says you can accurately know what the software will do, or when you'll get it, but not both. — Steve Purcell (@sanityinc) October 13, 2015
Emacs, OS X, and PATHS
As I mentioned the other day, I encountered a difficulty in building the documentation for the latest version of SBCL. That’s because I recently updated OS X to El Capitan, which has a new feature. It’s impossible for anyone (even … Continue reading
Pages in Emacs
Eric James Michael Ritz over at One More Game-Dev and Programming Blog has a nice post on how and why to use pages in Emacs. Pages in Emacs are text separated by form feeds (0xC)1. As Ritz explains, it’s easy … Continue reading
Emacs Autoloads
Over at lunarsite, Sebastian Wiesner has a very nice post that explains the ins and outs of autoloads in Emacs lisp. Mostly, autoloads take care of themselves but sometimes users do need to interact with them. Here’s an example that … Continue reading
Another Take on Emacs Configuration
I’ve mentioned before that Emacs configuration is a black hole that can easily swallow any spare cycles that wander into its event horizon. Part of that for me is reading how other people do it. Over at MetaSandwich, Selah has … Continue reading
More isearch Goodness
In A Nice Emacs Trick, I wrote about how you can enter query-replace or query-replace-regexp directly from isearch and use the isearch search string as the FROM parameter to query-replace or query-replace-regexp. It turns out that there’s a lot more … Continue reading
Lispdoc
The other day I wrote about discovering Steve Purcell’s emacs.d repository on GitHub. Today, I want to talk about another wonderful thing I discovered there: Lispdoc. Bill Moorier’s Lispdoc is a documentation search engine for Common Lisp that searches The … Continue reading
Zap Up To A Character
I was browsing Magnar Sveen’s excellent What the .emacs.d!? blog and came across a post on elisp-slime-nav-mode, a mode that brings a bit of Slime-like navigation to Elisp. It’s not part of the Emacs distribution and Sveen didn’t say where … Continue reading