«...RMS visit of our capital has been discussed on this list before, and I'm sure those of you who want to attent the public lecture next week, have already registered etc. The reason for my writing, however, is not to remind people of this, but to bring to your attention the rather unique opportunity to participate in a half-day workshop given by the man himself on our favorite text editor.
Read more »Mozilla Labs experiments with Git. What about Emacs Hackers?
"Mozilla Labs, Mozilla's research and development section, has announced that, based on the popularity of the Git distributed version control system, it is now offering an experimental fork for all Mozilla Labs projects and experiments on project hosting service GitHub...." — See also: «...Moving t
Read more »Emacs Starter Kit a Success
«Next person to watch the Emacs Starter Kit on Github gets to be #1024: http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit It could be you!»
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Scratch buffers for Emacs
"...Ordinarily, you’d use *scratch*, but it’s useful to have your scratch buffer use mode for the language you want to write code in, and *scratch* doesn’t fulfill this unless you’re hacking on emacs-lisp. To this end, I created scratch-el, a bit of code for doing just this..."
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The best way to switch to GNU Systems: Navigating Your Projects in Emacs
"...The first thing I tried was a method called find-file-in-project. It was originally implemented by Phil Hagelberg as part of his “Another Ruby on Rails Mode” (arorem) and then also ported over to the current Rinari Is Not a Rails IDE. Basically, it indexes all the files in a “project” and then provides a nice interactive completing read to switch between them..."
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Gwene: RSS/Atom feed to News
"...thanks to Gmane’s creator,Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, i’m nearing the RSS nirvana: he’s created a new service, Gwene, which works like Gmane, but for RSS feeds instead of mailing lists. The interface is damn simple: you just enter the URL of the feed you wanna read, give it a name, and its contents is available over NNTP and updated every thirty minutes.
Read more »Results from the State of Haskell, 2010 Survey
"One week ago, I sent out a survey where I asked Haskell developers a few quick questions about their background and Haskell usage..."
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Setup your environment to develop Erlang programs on GNU Systems
"Erlang is great platform, however, if you want to develop Erlang programs, the best development environment is probably Emacs at this point..."
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Emacs Auto-complete Mode
« I’ve just discovered a new add-on for Emacs called auto-complete-mode. After watching the video I was skeptical: I thought “this is going to get annoying really fast". However, after giving it a quick try, it is pretty cool... »
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Sydney Meetup July 2010
"Announcing the July meetup for Sydney aka rorosyd. Tuesday July 13, at the Trinity Bar – 505 Crown St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010..."
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Emacs Identica-mode microblogging client v1.0 release
"I’m very happy to announce the release 1.0 of the Emacs identica-mode microblogging client. Its been a while since the last release, and its been for a good reason! The main improvements are: ..."
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Making emacs insert a user provided HTML tag pair
A small but useful HTML function for emacs text editor. An elisp function that, when invoked with a key combination, asks the user for the root of an HTML pair (such as 'em' or 'strong' or 'blockquote'), and then wraps the selected text or the word the cursor (point) is on in the code.
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GNU Emacs 23.2 released
GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing. In addition to a large number of bugfixes, 23.2 includes several new packages, such as the CEDET suite of development tools and a new mode for editing Javascript.
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guile and emacs and elisp, oh my!
«Emacs would be faster, more powerful, and have the ability to access all of Guile's facilities -- the Scheme language, other languages implemented for Guile (Javascript, Lua, ...), a proper ffi, dynamically loadable libraries, a module system, the numeric tower (rationals, bignums, etc), Guile's existing libraries, delimited continuations (!), fast bytevector access, native threads, etc.» &mdas
Read more »Emacs & the birth of the GPL
Emacs is not so much a text editor, more a way of life - an "extensible, customizable self-documenting real time display editor" with thousands of ready made extensions that take you way beyond its original remit as a text editor
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