Xah Talk Show 2025-07-21 Ep685 Emacs Xah Fly Keys News, Function Keyword Parameter, and Rant

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• 04:02 Xah Fly Keys news, and demo in terminal
• 06:47 emacs lisp keyword parameters
• 09:42 emacs lisp xah-find-text-regex
• 14:44 emacs xah-dired-rename-space-to-underscore
• 15:25 emacs and xah-make-backup-and-save
• 15:42 wikesley scum copy my emacs lisp tutorial
• 17:01 am i a bot
• 21:01 glove 80 keyboard, ultimate hacking keyboard, svalboard
• 22:40 emacs encoding declaration
• 26:55 emacs lexical binding declaration
• 31:20 emacs demo of xah-find-text-regex
• 32:31 design your own keyboard. xah no-chord keyboard
• 39:46 my jacket, Nanjing Massacre
• 41:44 emacs god mode
• 44:07 one thousand articles on keyboard
• 50:23 persistent troll
• 54:27 Perl Priests, Tom Christiansen
• 57:21 perl sort, Schwartzian Transform
• 1:06:19 JavaScript sort sucked

• Xah Fly Keys news, and demo in terminal
• https://youtu.be/p9HuXV2HfH8?t=242

• emacs lisp keyword parameters
• https://youtu.be/p9HuXV2HfH8?t=407

• emacs lisp xah-find-text-regex
• https://youtu.be/p9HuXV2HfH8?t=582

• emacs xah-dired-rename-space-to-underscore
• https://youtu.be/p9HuXV2HfH8?t=884

• emacs and xah-make-backup-and-save
• https://youtu.be/p9HuXV2HfH8?t=925

• emacs lisp lexical binding
• https://youtu.be/p9HuXV2HfH8?t=1615

• Persistent troll, Perl Priests, Tom Christiansen. perl sort, Schwartzian Transform. JavaScript sort sucked
• https://youtu.be/p9HuXV2HfH8?t=3023

Xah Fly Keys news

• major updates on Xah Fly Keys
• which-key-mode is now on by default
• hl-line on by default.
• demo Xah Fly Keys in terminal.

• Emacs: Xah Fly Keys 📦
• Emacs Init: Which Key Mode
• Emacs Init: Highlight Current Line

function parameters

• modify xah-find-text-regex to use keyword parameters
• xah-find-replace-text-regex
• Elisp: Function Keyword Parameters (Named Parameters)

• Emacs: Xah Find Replace (xah-find.el) 📦

• Emacs: Backup Current File 📜

(xah-find-text-regex "hask.ll" "c:/Users/xah/web/xahlee_info/talk_show/" "\.html$" t t t)

(xah-find-text-regex "hask.ll" "c:/Users/xah/web/xahlee_info/talk_show/" "\.html$"
fixed-case-search-p t
printcontextlevel nil
recurse-p t
)

keyboard

• Xah Lee Keyboards ⌨
• Ergonomic Keyboard Layouts
• Xah No Chord Keyboard
• Do-It-Yourself Keyboards

sort

• Perl: Sort List, Matrix, Object
• Perl: Sort Matrix

• JavaScript in Depth
• JavaScript sort, is fragile, and most complex, convoluted
• JS: Array.prototype.sort
• JS: Array.prototype.toSorted

persistent hacker. skums in computing industry generation fads

• Tom Christiansen
• Schwartzian Transform
• Randal Schwartz

emacs first line convention

;; -*- coding: utf-8; lexical-binding: t; -*-

• Emacs: Declare Encoding for One File (Unicode, UTF-8)