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Announcing the Emacs User Survey 2020 Announcing the Emacs User Survey 2020 Link The first iteration of the Emacs User Survey is currently on track to open up Monday October 19th 2020. A huge thanks to everyone who gave feedback and suggestions, and particularly u/yyoncho who had put together a great list of questions on r/emacs. 1 Why For the community to understand itself better. 2 Where…
Continuous Integration of Emacs Packages with CircleCI Continuous Integration of Emacs Packages with CircleCI Link I was very inspired by Damien Cassou's great presentation during EmacsConf 2019 to write this post and I encourage you to check it out if you haven't already. In short, when writing packages for Emacs, it is best practice to run several quality tools on them, like syntax and…
ERT: Emacs Lisp Regression Testing ERT: Emacs Lisp Regression Testing Link This is the written version of a lightning talk I recently gave at the NYC Emacs Meetup , which is a great meetup that I cannot recommend enough. 1 Why The goal is simple: automatically make sure that a program is not broken by writing tests for it and running them automatically. Emacs lisp in particular is a good candidate…
Emacs & Websockets Emacs Websockets Link I work with websockets a lot and as painful as they can be sometimes, their versatility easily makes up for it. If you are not familiar, a websocket is basically a two way connection between a client and server . You would typically encounter one in a web chat applications, or any use case when you would want the server to send data to the browser without…
Some statistics about MELPA Some statistics about MELPA Link Full disclaimer first: I am not a statistician nor well versed in statistics. But I was recently very interested in knowing more about MELPA and how it was used. I did a bit of research, wrote a little data massaging script , compiled data here , and went on to gather a few basic statistics about MELPA. 1 First glance At the time of…
Quick Introduction to Emacs Hyperbole Quick Introduction to Emacs Hyperbole Link I have tried to include Hyperbole more and more into my workflow, and to match with the upcoming release of Hyperbole 7.0.8, I wanted to share a few tricks I like. This is far from covering all of Hyperbole's capabilities, but its the easiest ones to start with. The number one killer feature: 'implicit buttons', or…