Tag: Programming

• Perl regex builder in emacs
  • Read the wiki and there are 2 options
  • Best is this
  • Roughly confirmed that is the best and newest
  • Set up an el-get for it tonight
  • Played around for while can’t get el-get to load it
  • I can’t even load it myself
    • Probably my fault
  • Posted ticket on github page here

You may not be totally sure why, but you will immediately feel like you ought to install the following two packages for Emacs:

[indent-guide] show vertical lines to guide indentation

[highlight-stages] highlight staged (quasi-quoted) expressions

In Problems installing (M)ELPA packages Sebastien wrote:

While using `package.el’ fulfills a long-awaited dream for easily adding and upgrading Emacs libraries, I now feel upgrading packages is much more complex than what I anticipated.
At least two of the packages I use daily (Org and Helm) require to be installed from inside a fresh Emacs session (emacs -Q), where nothing has been loaded.

I had wondered but never found out why one must follow this approach when installing org from scratch. Good to know!

elpakit

Let’s you build repositories and archives of repositories.

Via reddit.

Testing Emacs Packages: surprisingly non-awful is a nice example of one approach to testing Emacs Lisp.