Awesome #Emacs package of the day: emr. A refactoring tool for elisp. http://t.co/dDXXD9jA8X
miniblog.
In the Plan 9 document I linked, they talk about the social benefits of programmers working on the same system. What's today's equivalent?
Fascinating description of Plan 9 design: http://t.co/Qa0jkiT1ND many interesting design choices including its sharing and backups.
I've added triple-quoted string support to julia-mode.el! https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/9152 It was a really fun deep dive in syntactic fontification.
Emacs' make-syntax-table does not give you an *empty* syntax table (" is treated as a string delimiter). Argh. Their reprs are unreadable.
That nice feeling when you throw away your local hacks because upstream has accepted your patches.
Good tech 'makes simple stuff easy and hard stuff possible'. The hard stuff still requires thought, sadly. No silver bullet.
I have a new-found respect for major mode authors. Writing a syntax-propertize-function is hard.
I've already organised my .emacs.d by mode:I have python-customisations.el, lisp-customisations.el etc. Do I gain anything with use-package?
Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts http://t.co/jOaWU18nTj Great, down-to-earth talk on language design and tradeoffs (Java focus)
#Emacs command of the day: `C-x C-x' (exchange-point-and-mark) will reactivate a region if you've deactivated it.
Docstrings have landed in Julia trunk and will be in 0.4! https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8791 The use of markdown is particularly nice.
The Python approach for namespaces is more to avoid name clashes than to make everything private. I miss it in elisp.
Refactoring some old CSS. I think my frontend skills are improving, because I can get the same result with less CSS now.
I'm testing some new ag.el features against the Emacs git repo (anything else searches too quickly). Fun fact: 49,160 defun forms in Emacs!
Emacs has *multiple* browser implementations. shr.el (Simple HTML Render) and eww.el (Emacs Web Wowser). That's what I call full featured!
I still have doubts about proposals to hide parens in lisp, but I like the idea for HTML: http://t.co/9G9KcHzZ82
The principle that you're embarrassed of code you wrote more than 6 months ago is entirely applicable to blogging too.
I think the GPLv2 is a great way to build a community through pushing people to contribute back. I've seen few GPLv3 successes so far.
Interesting discussion of a 'minimal viable editor' for Python: http://t.co/snTbgTzIy6
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