Xah Emacs Blog Archive 2020-05
ELisp: Replace HTML Entities
again, major code update
Best Keyboards for Emacs
updated
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-26 lisp keyboards, arrow key history, emacs dash problem, open source problem
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-25 emacs, reaction on try out speedbar and treemacs
Emacs: List All Hooks
updated
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-21 emacs lisp, write command to highlight text
next online meetup, emacs sf
Thursday, September 3, 2020. 1PM, San Francisco time https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/272722964
had a great meetup yesterday, saw Jeff, ag, John Wiegley, Sean, and several ohers. learned a few thing.
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-20 Emacs Lisp. Write Command to Clean Up YouTube Description
infamous
KickbanXahLeeFromEmacsChannel.htm
cleaned up the HTML.
MELPA URL http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/ dead
updated in
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-18 Emacs, Manage Project with Projectile
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-17 Emacs Lisp Coding, Display Formfeed as Line
- Emacs: Cycle Hyphen Lowline Space 🚀
- ELisp: Replace HTML Entities
- emacs and vi: Science of Command Efficiency
minor updates and repost
Emacs: View Image File
updated
Emacs Init: Mouse Config
updated
updated.
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-15, emacs/elisp tutorial, modify youtube linkify accept timestamp
online emacs meetup, hosted by our great Jeff T
Thursday, August 20, 2020 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM San Francisco time
https://www.meetup.com/Emacs-SF/events/272601148
Go there and sign up and Reserve. 20 people is the limit. Also mark your calendar.
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-12, intro to emacs 27 features turned huge rant
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-10, emacs, braille, python vs ruby vs perl vs emacs lisp
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-07, emacs lisp youtube-linkify, why shell in emacs, sigil war
Xah Talk Show 2020-08-04, emacs lisp coding, open buffer or link in chrome
GNU Emacs Logo
emacs logo on trackball
The Sigils WAR, Language Design and Coding Convention (2016)
thanks to dxlr8r
Xah Talk Show 2020-07-18 gergo keyboard review and keyboard geeking
Emacs: HTML, Make Citation Link
code update. Now link open in new tab.
ELisp: URL to HTML Link + Date
code update. Now link open in new tab.
Xah Talk Show 2020-07-15, emacs lisp command xah-html-remove-list
xah fly keys MELPA file not found fixed
old version of xah fly keys before the key engine change on 2020-04-27 is now linked from xah fly keys home page at Emacs: Xah Fly Keys
it's no longer on github, cuz it's causing file not found install problems.
thanks to @sarthak
LISP Logo
new photo
LISP Logo new photos
you can buy lisp logo stickers. see bottom, refresh: LISP Logo
Emacs: Xah Fly Keys
Fixed Space 3 from
delete-other-windows
to
delete-window.
Note, 3 is delete-other-windows.
the lisp logo stickers are gone.
LISP Logo
send me your address, i'll mail it to you.
I have about 4 of them.
My request: you send back a photo of your laptop or device with the sticker on.
For usa resident, i sent free.
For outside of usa, donation of $5 paypal would be good. paypal to Xah@XahLee.org
First come first serve.
I'll mail out in about a week.
Emacs: Usability Problems of Letter-Case Changing Commands
code update. Now also do non-Latin, such as Greek
γ
to
Γ
Emacs: Regular Expression
minor update
Emacs: Quote Lines 🚀
code update
Emacs: Unicode Tutorial
updated
ELisp: Chinese Char To Reference Link
code update
Xah Talk Show 2020-06-16 emacs lisp and html coding. etymology and mythology
New.
xah emacs lisp live coding 2020-06-10. join lines in a text block
ELisp: Call Shell Command
added how to call PowerShell.
Emacs: Insert Random UUID 🚀
major rewrite and code update.
Xah Fly Keys Testimonial
new page
what keyboard did emacs use in 1970s when emacs was TECO? Emacs Meta Key History
new version of emacs tutorial is out. Buy it! Not gonna send update to previous buyers, because last one is just a month ago.
Emacs: Jump to Previous Position
Major update.
by the way, a better way is to split buffer, do stuff, then move cursor back to the other pane, then unsplit.
Emacs: Init File Tutorial
updated basic init file.
put it in your Emacs Init File, and life will be good.
Emacs Init: Setup Font
added howto about setting up a font for Chinese characters and emoji.
reader macro and sigil
&option is just the syntax for rest parameters.
(:key1 val1 :key2 val2 ...) are syntax for key value pairs.
@ and $ are just part of name that i use. syntax coloring of them is due to these starting symbol, in Emacs: Xah Elisp Mode (xah-elisp-mode.el)
The technical name for special symbol like
ampersan &
in
&option
[see ELisp: Function Parameters (optional, rest)]
and colon
:
in
(make-hash-table :test 'equal)
[see ELisp: Hash Table],
are called reader macro characters.
Emacs lisp manual does not have a page explaining
lisp reader macro.
Elisp does not support user defined reader macro, but has a page about
what reader do, on “Read and Print”
Read and Print (ELISP Manual)
Clojure does not support user defined reader macro neither,
but clojure doc does talked about it and has a ton of it, see
Clojure Sigils (Magic Characters)
About my use of @ and $, blood has been shed over that.
Misc Technical Essays and Non-Technical Essays on Emacs Lisp
some reorganization of index page at Emacs Misc Index
in particular, created two navigation topic groups, one is Misc Technical Essays on Emacs Lisp see bottom of ELisp: Symbol vs String and the other is Non-Technical Essays on Emacs Lisp, see bottom of Which Chapters of Elisp Manual to Read?
There is quite a lot more to do about the reorganization of misc essays i've written in past 16 years. Will do in coming days.
Xah Talk Show 2020-05-23. Which programing language is worth learning? The Future of Lisp
Why emacs lisp haven't become a general purpose language?
on its own page.
Emacs: Xah JS Mode (JavaScript)
code minor update.
Xah Talk Show 2020-05-08 Japanese Keyboards, TRON, M-System, Thumb-Shift, Leopold, Topre