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Emacs 26, Threads, and Generators

One of the things that a lot of people are exited about in Emacs 26 is the introduction of basic threading. Another, less mentioned, feature is generators. The excellent Chris Wellons has a must-read post that talks about both of … Continue reading

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Emacs Lisp Bytecode

Very few Emacs users—no matter how advanced—ever need to worry about the specifics of the Elisp bytecode, or even, for that matter, that it exists. Still, as guys like Chris Wellons have shown, it can sometimes be useful to have … Continue reading

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Back to RSS

Lately, I’ve noticed a renewed interest in RSS. The reasons for that are not hard to understand. As yesterday’s post made clear, social media has become a toxic wasteland interested only in collecting the intimate details of our lives and … Continue reading

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Structures in Emacs Lisp

Chris Wellons over at Null Program has another great post. It considers how to define and use structures in Emacs Lisp. What I like most about the post is that it starts with the obvious solution of using a list … Continue reading

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Debugging Elfeed with DTrace

If you don’t follow Chris Wellons over at nullprogram.com, you really should. Wellons always has interesting posts, and often discusses fascinating technical details. He’s shown me how to do things that I didn’t know Emacs could do like rendering fractals. … Continue reading

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flet, cl-flet and Dynamic/Lexical Binding

This is a post for Elisp programmers who have some Common Lisp (CL) experience. One nice feature of CL is the flet macro that lets you temporarily bind a function lexically. Emacs Lisp also has a flet in the cl … Continue reading

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More Calc Recipes

Yesterday’s post on calc generated an interesting discussion in the comments. Frequent commentor Phil offers a particularly nice example of an easy way to add up a row or column of numbers. That’s something that while it doesn’t come up … Continue reading

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A DSL for Elfeed

As Irreal regulars know, I’m now reading my feeds with Elfeed. It put one more frequent task under Emacs and generally makes organizing and dealing with the feeds easier. Because of my Elfeed adoption, I’ve been paying more attention to … Continue reading

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Elfeed

Those of you who have been paying attention know that I’ve been threatening to complete my move to (almost) all-things-in-Emacs by switching to elfeed for my RSS feeds. It doesn’t really have a good iOS solution but it is easy … Continue reading

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Zamansky 29: Elfeed (1)

Mike Zamansky has another video in his Using Emacs series up. It is the first of two or three posts on Elfeed. For those who don’t know, Elfeed is an Emacs-based RSS reader written by Christopher Wellons. If you’re striving … Continue reading

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