You can probably tell the sort of on-line company I keep from the deluge of noise on the social networks regarding Google’s decision to shut down Reader. However we shouldn’t be that surprised. In fact some companies that source content from Reader have anticipated the need to collect content themselves. I of course will have …
Apologies for the extended delay in getting out a new release of Edit with Emacs. Real life has been doing a good job keeping me busy that spare hacking time is in short supply. A number of people have submitted pull requests and I’ve also done a bit of clean-up on the code. The JavaScript …
It’s time for another examination of Emacs LISP and a selection of ways to solve the same problem. In this case it’s the behaviour of the etags-select package. This handy function will present a selection table when it finds multiple definitions of the same tag. This is handy if your global TAGs file contains reference …
I’ve been running Emacs 24 direct from the version control tree (technically a git mirror, bzr still confuses me) for some time now. As many people have mentioned ELPA is one of the big features that helps de-clutter an Emacs users ~/.emacs.d directory. I thought it might be a useful exercise to discuss which packages …
I haven’t really had much time for hacking at home unless programming my daughters wetware counts. However a few enterprising users have been sending me in some pull requests that fix a few minor bugs that slipped through the extensive pre-release testing I did for v1.10 so I thought it was worth pushing out a …
I’ve finally buckled and now have a Windows laptop. It was mainly forced on me by the need to have some sort of access to the intranet during the large number of meetings I’m now involved in at work. I have to say the experience has been enlightening, especially seeing all the hacky stuff that …
When you do so much of your work in one text editor the efficiency of switching between buffers becomes more important. For a long time I’ve had two bindings “C-x b” and “C-x C-b” which in days of yore I had bound to bs-show and a hacked up list-buffers that opened another window. These are …
What with becoming a parent and getting promoted I suddenly find myself needing to become a lot more organised. Although I’ve been using org-mode for a bit I need to get a lot more organised with it. Previously I had two sets of org notes. My personal set where sitting on my server which I …
I received a bunch of feedback and patches from my last announcement but I think all the outstanding bugs are now squashed. The edit-server.el has seen some love to make it more idiomatically correct for elisp. The main change is new code to handle editable DIV tags beloved of such sites as Google+ (which you …
I’ve been doing a bunch of house-keeping on Edit with Emacs recently in preparation for a new release. I can only apologise to those people who have submitted patches and merge requests for my tardiness. I’m afraid Real Life tm has been taking precedence. As regular readers of the non-emacs sections of my blog will …