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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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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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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The power of Tramp

Posted on Thu 29 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, remote-editing, tramp

The project I've been working on at work the last few weeks has involved bringing up a brand new embedded system. As part of that I've been tweaking a lot of start-up scripts and configuration files on the new system.

For part of that task I've installed GNU Zile which …


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Emacs Daemon and Handling Projects

Posted on Mon 05 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, ide, projects

All my machines have been running persistent Emacs daemons for some time now. Every time I edit a web-page text area or a tweak a configuration file the Emacs client whizzes me to the file with efficient enthusiasm.

However I'm still running individual sessions for each "project" I work on …


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