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Russian and Ukrainian localization files for DrScheme
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Here is a link to a post on plt-dev about Russian and Ukrainian localization files for DrScheme. They live here: russian-string-constants.ss and ukrainian-string-constants.ss.
ParEdit for Editing Lispy Languages
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
ParEdit (paredit.el) is a minor mode for performing structured editing of S-expression data. The typical example of this would be Lisp or Scheme source code. ParEdit helps keep parentheses balanced and adds many keys for moving S-expressions and moving around in S-expressions. That quote from EmacsWiki really undersells Paredit, though. Paredit makes it virtually impossible [...]
A Review of Scheme Modes in Emacs
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Here is a nice review of Scheme modes for Emacs.
Adding Unicode Fonts to Windows
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Today I set up pretty-mode.el and found that the laptop had all of the Unicode fonts but the desktop did not. I ended up installing Arial Unicode MS as suggested by unicode.org, and that installed all of the missing fonts. If you have Microsoft Office 2000 and newer versions, you can get the Arial Unicode [...]
Elastic tabstops
Saturday, October 3, 2009
The argument: Code an in editor should be dynamically formatted using something like intelligent table-based layouts. Seems like an OK idea. Read about it here.
Using Syntax Highlighting to Flag Mutation
Monday, September 21, 2009
As Robby describes here, in a recent build of DrScheme he added mutation flagging to the syntax-highlighting.
r6rs-library-mode: Emacs support for R6RS Scheme
Monday, August 31, 2009
Ed is working Emacs support as he explains here and here.
EiffelVision finally goes native for OS X
Thursday, July 30, 2009
EiffelVision seems to have finally gone native for OS X.
A Brief Review of PragProg’s Becoming Productive in Xcode Screencasts
Monday, July 27, 2009
I just finished watching the first 2 episodes of this screencast series. It has a pleasant tone and a lot of helpful information in it. You might imagine it as sitting down with another developer already familiar with Xcode and having him show you the very best features and highlights of the IDE. The author [...]