Xah Talk Show 2024-02-27 Ep540 Emacs Lisp Coding, Hand Pain, Dark Theme Fad, Solarize Disease

• Timestamp
• 1:23 Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury
• 2:50 HTML section tag
• 4:55 xah emacs packages
• 7:06 emacs damages hand
• 9:10 advantage of nested syntax
• 12:59 start coding elisp
• 15:31 writing enhances thinking
• 23:29 dark theme fad
• 35:45 start eshell when emacs starts
• 37:23 Solarized, grey on white
• 54:52 infinite loop in emacs
• 58:22 command to validate html
• 1:01:57 Rob Pike, Douglas Crockford
• 1:03:13 apple is best design
• 1:03:35 night light (night shift)

• write a emacs lisp command to break html headers into sections

• e.g. Famous Programers with Repetitive Strain Injury

(defun xah-html-add-section-to-h2 ()
  "Add section tags to h2.
the position of first opening h2, is pushed to mark.
Version: 2024-02-28"
  (interactive)
  (let (xfirstH2)
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (search-forward "<h2>" nil t)
    (setq xfirstH2 (match-beginning 0))
    (replace-match "<section>\n\n<h2>" t t)
    (push-mark xfirstH2 t)
    (goto-char xfirstH2)
    (while (search-forward "<h2>" nil t) (replace-match "</section>\n\n<section>\n\n<h2>" t t))
    (progn
      (goto-char xfirstH2)
      (when (re-search-forward "<div class=\"topicXL\">\\|<div class=\"rltd\">\\|</main>\\|</body>")
        (replace-match
         (concat "</section>\n\n" (match-string 0))
         t t)))
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (while (re-search-forward "<section>\n*</section>" nil t)
      (replace-match ""))))

random chat

• Protesilaos Stavrou on color theme https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes

• PowerShell: Toggle Dark Theme
• Emacs: Xah HTML Mode
• dark theme fad
• dark theme vs night light (filter blue color)
• Web Design: Grey Text on White Background. Solarize Color Disease
• solarize fad
• syntax coloring, fad?
• My Experience of GNU Emacs vs XEmacs (2007)
• Rob Pike
• Douglas Crockford
• html validation