"Or, how I spent my Christmas vacation. Here are texinfo and info versions of Project Gutenberg's Complete Works of Shakespeare, suitable for use in emacs or with the texinfo program..." -- via texinfo edition of the complete works of Shakespeare
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A Single Command to Get Started on Functional Programming
"Functional Programming is old. Ancient. Like right after FORTRAN. But it’s the future. Trust me, I’m named after the dude who knew about Jesus 700 years early. Seriously, it’s not going to take 700 years for FP to go mainstream. Some would argue that it already is. Python, Ruby, and others have adopted a number of FP features.
Read more »Listening to Last.fm in Emacs
"During the backup process before I had upgraded my notebook to Fedora 10, I decided not to copy back my Music folder to the fresh installation, but start using Last.fm whenever I’d like to listen to music. The question came quite straight—so how to play Last.fm streams in Emacs?
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Rinari: a top-notch Ruby and Rails development environment for GNU/Linux
"...Rinari is an Emacs minor mode that is aimed towards making Emacs into a top-notch Ruby and Rails development environment. For the latest version see..."
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modes
"Emacs has special modes for many different types of files; a mode might colorize the file in some useful way, or add some functions or keybindings to easily manipulate them. Each buffer has one specific mode called the major mode. In addition, each buffer can have multiple minor modes, which enhance the major mode in some way.
Read more »A day with RMS
"Today RMS visited Bangalore again. This is for the first time I am seeing him. I am bit tired after today's programs. So, I will try to provide a brief summary of the program. I hope you know what RMS will be talking about, so I am not going to those details :) ..."
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UI Prototyping with Emacs
"Today, though, I'd like to talk about and propose a different approach to User Interface Prototyping: Emacs Artist Mode. Artist mode is a minor Emacs mode that turns an emacs buffer into a canvas you can draw all sorts of geometrical shapes on [...] Let me know how you are using artist mode in your projects..."
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Ruby mode is now bundled with Emacs !
"Richard has okayed adding Ruby-mode to CVS, and I've done so. I made a few changes with respect to Phil Hagelberg's version at github: ..."
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Cheap tricks in Emacs: Buffers
"One nice feature of Emacs, that is as old as Emacs itself, are buffers. Most Emacs users like them because you can have multiple buffers open at once and work on many things at once. And for the record, I'm actually a big fan of the Emacs buffer menu..."
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.emacs
"Many programs have start-up settings, which they read from a configuration file or from some database. Emacs is no exception: when it starts, it reads a file called ".emacs" from your home directory. However, the big difference is that .emacs does not consists of simple "key=value"-pairs. Instead, your .emacs is an Emacs-Lisp (elisp) program itself.
Read more »Yasnippet for C style comments
"Are you using yasnippet right? No? Well, in a nutshell is an awesome template system for Emacs, I really recommend it. The template language is very easy to learn and there are templates for a lot of programming languages..."
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binding keys
"In quite some of the blog entries - past and especially, future - we define key bindings. These are discussed in details in the Emacs documentation; but what about the very useful little subset we need here for defining keybindings? ..."
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Text::EmacsColor
"I have always been unhappy reading source code on the Internet and on slides. The colors are never quite right. It seems like every Perl to HTML converter in existence gets it wrong (my blog is no exception).
Read more »Emacs Starter Kit, created November 18, 2008
"This should provide a saner set of defaults than you get normally with Emacs. It’s intended for beginners, but it should provide a reasonable working environment for anyone using Emacs..."
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Emacs 23: Release update
"Hi fellas, Here's a short update on the Emacs 23 release process. We are getting pretty close, and currently there are two main things to do before starting the pretest: adding ruby-mode to the CVS repository, and making rmail-mbox/pmail ready for use..."
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