Xah Emacs Blog Archive 2016-09
page updated. More efficient than vim, or any emacs keybinding out there.
ELisp: Command to Search Web (updated)
Xah Emacs Tutorial Update
emacs tutorial. New version out. Major rewrite to tens of articles in past 2 months. In particular, the lisp tutorials at ELisp: Lisp Basics.
Recommend to a friend, Buy it. Thanks.
sending out update to previous buyers today.
ELisp: Syntax Color Comment in Major Mode
completely rewritten.
ELisp: How to Write Keyword Completion Command
much revised and expanded.
stop ido-mode suggestion when write-file (aka save as)
Put this in your Emacs Init File:
(require 'ido) ;; stop ido suggestion when doing a save-as (define-key (cdr ido-minor-mode-map-entry) [remap write-file] nil)
added to Emacs: Switch Buffer
got a cold
been sick in the past few days. Better now. What a pleasure it is to type code again.
i'll be rewriting several pages about how to write a major mode. at
Emacs Lisp How to Write Major Mode
several pages there needs a review badly, in particular the keyword completion how-to and comment coloring how-to.
I think i'll finish that first, before i sent out the tutorial updates.
sorry about the delay in tutorial update.
elisp lesson will also continue. If you are late in the game, see Xah Teaches Emacs Lisp.
Do, Do, Do the exercises. That's the only way to learn.
gnu emacs 25.1 released
announcement at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-09/msg00451.html
For linux, download from the link given above.
building emacs on linux is easy. see
You can get Microsoft Windows binary version at
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
or
https://sourceforge.net/projects/emacsbinw64/files/release/
new features
release notes https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/news/NEWS.25.1
Artur Malabarba's blogs about emacs 25 features: http://endlessparentheses.com/tags-expanded.html#emacs-25
Mickey Petersen's blog about what's new https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/whats-new-in-emacs-25-1
new index. A fun one. Pictures and logos stuff mostly.
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Practical Emacs Lisp, Shaping into Course Material
the navigation panel on the side has seen more cleaned up.
(you may need to refresh and clear cache by Ctrl+Shift+r. )
I'm shaping the elisp tutorial into a focused course material.
ELisp: Cut Copy Paste, kill-ring (minor update)
elisp symbols, property list
ELisp: Symbol (updated)
ELisp: Function Types: Lambda, Primitive, Special Form, Macro, Command (on its own page)
ELisp: Property List (new page)
ELisp: Symbol Property List (new page)
Emacs Init: Setup Font (minor update. added a screenshot.)
new command. xah-goto-matching-bracket
Emacs: Move Cursor to Bracket 🚀 (refresh page)
Emacs: Move Cursor to Bracket 🚀
updated. Those commands, are critically important. They are far more useful than buildin emacs ways to navigate lisp code.
Emacs: Navigate Lisp Code as Tree (on its own page)
Emacs Lisp How to Write Major Mode
new index page. Few minor updates to the pages, will be going thru them in coming days.
ELisp: Replace HTML Entities (code update. Now make a report of occurrence.)
ELisp: Unicode Escape Sequence (minor update)
ELisp: Hash Table (updated)
ELisp: Function Parameters (optional, rest) (added full examples)