Functional[Justin]

In July 2011 I released an emacs lisp client for the Redis in-memory data structure store. You can install either from the Melpa package or just clone from Github. The...

Pic from ajc1 on FlikrIt's handy to be able to send emails from emacs, and this guide will show how to set up SMTP via an iCloud email account.Step 1. Install...

My response to the blog article An Emacs Programming ChallengeThe goal is to make the emacs lisp record below execute itself and produce XML. My lisp has gotten rusty so...

I've been busy on my emacs redis client eredis and it now supports the entire API. It still needs a bit more polish but it should be a workable Redis...

When programming in emacs lisp, there is an easy way to show progress feedback to the user when a task will take some time. Here's a block of code from...

picture by Donald MacLeodThis is a an example of programming emacs in emacs-lisp just to give an idea of what you can put together in an hour or two. I...

When I first moved from England to North America one of the things I found hard to get used to was getting paid every two weeks instead of monthly. This...

Chain Tool by Florian If you have some function, say some custom refactoring operation, you can call it from a dired buffer, and have it run on each marked file, using...

Today I've been playing around with emacs, and one of the things I've wanted to write is something to grab a web page, do some manipluations to it and dump...

I know there are all kinds of clever perforce modes, but I prefer to have a few common perforce actions that I write myself and can easily extend and customise...

My team use Perforce for version control, and I recently wrote an implementation of 'blame', also known as 'praise'. When editing a file that is in Perforce, I can run...

The BBC microcomputer had a button called COPY, which when you pressed it would copy the character on the line above the cursor. This was quite handy, and I recently...

Here's a bit of elisp code to find out...(defun is-century-year(year) (if (= (mod year 100) 0) t nil))(defun is-leap-year(year) "leap year is century years divisible by 400, not other century...