drothlis

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by drothlis 14y ago
I've cloned a few GitHub projects and, I have to say, I am absolutely amazed when I look at the source files. Project after project without comments. I wish people would add a one-line comment to the top of every source file saying what i
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by drothlis 14y ago
Thanks for that link. 1987! Where's my structural-regexp-enabled awk!?
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by drothlis 14y ago
If you modify the default font, you also have to change the default "fontset", because merely changing the default font doesn't install it as the font for unicode characters. I use: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "Menlo" :he
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by drothlis 14y ago
And pushing improvements (like saner defaults, and documentation for some of the under-documented built-in packages) upstream to Emacs itself. For those reasonably comfortable with Emacs, I think you should build it from source, and get int
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by drothlis 14y ago
No idea sorry... the user who uploaded it to emacswiki didn't leave any contact details. And it's not part of the paredit source repo: http://mumble.net/~campbell/emacs/paredit/ :-(
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by drothlis 14y ago
According to http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa... (linked in one of the comments in the github discussion) it is for consistency with the commit message generated by 'git merge' and the like.
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by drothlis 14y ago
Intentionally, I think: This PDF file is optimized for screen viewing, but may easily be recompiled for printing. Please see the preamble of the LATEX source file for instructions. Shows a great attention to detail!
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by drothlis 14y ago
I don't know the design goals of premake but ninja is very very fast at deciding what to build (a no-op build of a large project that might take a traditional make system several seconds, is almost instantaneous with ninja, allegedly). For
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by drothlis 14y ago
The GNU manuals are extremely comprehensive... far too comprehensive to read as an introductory text. The Emacs manual's table of contents alone is over 6000 words[1]. I recommend my own guide http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html
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Why Emacs(david.rothlis.net)
2 points by drothlis 14y ago|0 comments
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by drothlis 14y ago
Some environments make it easier to browse the source than others. See for example the way you would figure out how to customize indentation in Emacs, by asking Emacs for the source code to the command that is run when you press TAB: http:
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by drothlis 15y ago
Not to mention that Prince XML has excellent support for CSS paged media (margins, page breaks, headers & footers, etc). Contrast with the printed output of any major browser -- they're all quite disappointing. It would be nice if tha
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by drothlis 15y ago
Thanks for the tip. Where did you get this installer from? I just installed emacs-23.4-bin-i386.zip from http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ on a Windows VM, and it's a plain zipfile you extract to C:\Program Files (and optionally r
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by drothlis 15y ago
Thanks. :-) http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/LearningEmacs
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How to learn Emacs(david.rothlis.net)
18 points by drothlis 15y ago|7 comments
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by drothlis 15y ago
Would there be space for a hands-on workshop for new users? What would such a workshop cover?
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by drothlis 15y ago
Thanks! After "pretend that if is a function" I do immediately proceed to explain evaluation semantics: "what does it mean by 'if is a special form'? It turns out that if isn’t a regular function." Of course, I am open to suggestions for be
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by drothlis 15y ago
I recently put this guide together: http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/howtolearn.html Its focus is on self-driven discovery by leveraging the Emacs built-in help and source code. Feedback welcome.
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by drothlis 15y ago
We have `diff -w` for this type of thing (and `git diff -w` etc). Sadly, we're still missing `git annotate -w`.
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by drothlis 15y ago
I don't know if this is what you mean, but I use version-control diff, log, and annotate ("blame") extensively for finding the commit that introduced a particular feature, in the hope that the commit message or the diff for the entire chang
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by drothlis 15y ago
git-gui (part of the core git distribution) provides similar mousey-clicky staging -- you can stage hunks or individual lines at a time.
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by drothlis 15y ago
Basically, yes. It does mean more work for you, for the benefit of the reviewers of the code. Arguably, it is more important to optimise for the readers of the change (many people, spread over time) than for the writer (one person, once). I
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by drothlis 15y ago
Google are planning on open sourcing a DSL for searching c++, apparently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVbDzTM21BQ
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by drothlis 15y ago
Except for the article's steps 3 & 4: 3. You enter some code and hit proceed 4. The app continues like nothing happened A short (<3min) video demoing the same: http://vimeo.com/27850933
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by drothlis 15y ago
"Bloat" = "Bigger than the framework I know"
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by drothlis 15y ago
I thought that the grand-parent comment referred to sentences such as this from the article: "Git can be used as a database for your application." If you intend to distribute your application, even though you're not copying the git source c
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by drothlis 15y ago
Have you seen Ward Cunningham's "federated wiki"? http://wardcunningham.github.com/
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by drothlis 15y ago
You didn't specify an operating system, but for OS X there's KeyRemap4MacBook[1]. Among a zillion other things, it has a setting for "Ubiquitous Vim Bindings" which enables vi-like bindings everywhere, except in terminals, emacs, and vi its
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by drothlis 15y ago
Yes. My original comment (the grandparent to your comment) attempted to explain why I prefer term-mode over shell-mode.
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by drothlis 15y ago
Edit: I meant term-mode (M-x term), not terminal-mode (M-x terminal-emulator). No idea why there are two different terminal emulators in Emacs, but 'M-x term' seems the better of the two, or at least the keybindings make more sense to me. T

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