Edit with Emacs v1.8

Posted on Thu 19 August 2010 in geek • Tagged with chrome, chromium, development, elisp, emacs, extension, javascript

After a relatively quiet period a number of patches have flowed my way so I thought it was worth pushing out a new version. Perhaps the most "important" feature is the edit box flashing and fading from yellow after being updated (like It's All Text). It wasn't that hard to …


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Odyssey, in 60 seconds

Posted on Mon 16 August 2010 in general • Tagged with fest games, lrp, odyssey, rome, swords

We went to the new PD LRP fest game Odyssey this weekend. Although we didn't stay for Saturday evening as we had wedding planning to do we did get a good feel for the game. Instead of Maelstrom's Play-by-(e)mail game of Civ Odyssey is very much rooted in …


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Looping in LISP

Posted on Tue 10 August 2010 in geek • Tagged with code, elisp, emacs, examples, lisp

Loops are a fairly important part of any programming language and fairly fundamental to a language that is purported to be all about manipulating lists. However it's not something I use that often in my .emacs code so I thought it might be useful to discuss the various options with …


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General Melchett was right

Posted on Mon 09 August 2010 in general • Tagged with oxford, stag

My first impressions of Oxford where that it's even less car friendly than Cambridge. I was visiting for James' stag and had elected to stay at the Oxford Social Club. Having booked it through a third party site I was under the impression there was parking. As it turned out …


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Edit with Emacs v1.7

Posted on Thu 29 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with chrome, chromium, emacs

It's been a while so I released a new version of Edit with Emacs for Google Chrome(ium). To be honest most of the changes are to edit-server.el. The most major change is moving all the frame configuration options into a single edit-server-new-frame-alist which might cause confusion if people …


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