Land of Lisp: Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! is a book about lisp programming. If you are into programming for fun, artificial intelligence, role playing games, or an emacs user, you should take a look at this book. I've got some info on this book as well as a few others for the...
I have a small laptop that I carry to the coffee shop for writing. It is a bit shaky in the hardware department, very small, and has no functioning wireless. The hard drive is encrypted. These attributes together make it the perfect laptop to carry around between, say, the gym, the coffee...
After a little messing around with interesting emacs goodies, we might as well get right on to the good stuff.
emacs uses a concept called "modes." You'll learn about that if you use emacs. For now, what you need to know is that there are "major modes" and "minor modes" and we're only...
The kill ring is the emacs clip board. I admit that I hardly ever use it in the ways for which it is designed, but I probably should. As you "kill" text (i.e., delete) it gets tacked onto the kill ring, from which you can "yank" it later (yes, this is some sort of religious reference possibly...
I use word processors like OpenOffice Word as others use page layout software: Only when I want certain control over the final product, want it fast, and don't demand too much of the product. For regularly produced formatted text I use some version of LaTex, but most of the...
In HTML mode, and/or in related functions available in the internet, it appears that one can do the following:
Insert a pair of HTML codes that one would then fill in with stuff.
If point is in (or at the end of) a word, have the word wrapped in a specific HTML code pair.
If a region of text...