Who would’ve thought that Ruby’s block ‘end’ keyword was created to facilitate Emacs? Oh man!
When [Matz] was first starting out writing Ruby, he was coding the Emacs ruby-mode.el for it at the same time. He expressed some frustration with modes for other languages like Python and Pascal in which the editor could not look at [...]
Neil Van Dyke is a hacker, researcher, Emacs wiz, blogger, and producer of numerous of Scheme libraries. One of his packages, Quack is of particular interest to Emacs using Schemers.
Addendum: 8/1/8
New feature: compile mode can navigate from PLT setup-plt errors.
Addendum: 9/14/8
Revised the title and the stub so as not to insinuate that Neil is a [...]
Juan Garcia has a post on reducing elisp bugs using the byte-code compiler.
This article explains how to configure init rather than .emacs style configuration.
Here is a great article about using Elisp as a scripting language.
Artist mode lets you draw lines, squares, rectangles and poly-lines, ellipses, and circles with your mouse and/or keyboard. It is extremely useful when inserting text diagrams or figures in your source comments.
Seems that RMS is taking IDE design cues from Eclipse! (thanks Yoni)
Someone please point him at IntelliJ Idea.
Here is a tweak to configure auto-save to cooperate with your buffers in Emacs.
If you try to pin down Schemers to a particular stereotype, you will fail; they are just too diverse a bunch.
Take Shiro Kawai’s website. He’s got some great resources on that page. Dig in deeper and have a look at his paper Gluing Things Together - Scheme in the Real-time CG Content Production.
The short story [...]
Getting the control key “back into the right spot” on PC keyboards is a goal shared between Emacs and UNIX folks. The following are a collection of links on how to do so (this list is sure to grow):
GNU Emacs FAQ For Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP and 2000 (thanks Trey)
Sysinternals Ctrl2Cap (thanks kiwlm)
Addendum: 10/01/08
The Sysinternals solution is [...]