miniblog.

"With Emacs, you can have a drag event without even changing your clothes." http://t.co/bN48F4zifk

package.el has been a massive success. I'm aware of 8 repositories so far: http://t.co/pB1JoKUWcw

I've set up my first project using Cask and flycheck-cask for checking my code, and it works wonderfully. Highly recommended.

Blogged: Editing Julia code (with Emacs!) http://t.co/coCUB8XTXU

"you could almost write a book on [colons in ranges] alone" floating-point ranges are hard:

Urgh, something has gone wrong when you seriously consider writing (cons my-regexp ''my-face) ;; yep, two quotes! http://t.co/Tovbkig1E8

Emacs' string model is quite different to anything else I've experienced. They're mutable ropes that can also store arbitrary attributes.

"In Pharo 4, the Inspector and Playground from the Glamorous Toolkit (a part of [Moose]) are now the default." Exciting!

I've seen * used in curse words, but I'm surprised the docstrings in Emacs write 'Un*x' (e.g. man and woman).

Elisp package of the day: eldoc-eval: https://github.com/thierryvolpiatto/eldoc-eval It shows eldoc on the modeline when you use M-: http://t.co/ueyTahxrtD

Dilemma: should the minibuffer (using eldoc or equivalent) show the function parameters or docstring? #emacs

Emacs is now on git! http://t.co/sKyXDs5PhW http://t.co/CWtNiDBm55

3 stages of code reading: understanding the flow, understanding the details, then assaulting the code until you're persuaded it's correct.

Comparing compilation strategy in GHC, Mlton and Julia:

I've seen several Go programmers cite garbage-collection as one of the things they like. Sounds like it is attracting C/C++ programmers.