xahlee

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by xahlee 10y ago
I did not submit this article. This article got submitted i believe because this morning i tweeted my new keyboard blog on twitter, and my keyboard blog mentioned this 6 years old rant. And somebody submitted that here. For over a decade 19
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by xahlee 10y ago
The articles you are citing are from comp.lang.lisp newsgroup. I'm a regular there roughly from 1999 to 2010. I didn't buy a domain to put a rant. I had a website since 1995, had domain since 2000, and my website had several thous
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by xahlee 10y ago
that keyboard rant is written 6 years ago. Back then many programers will praise Das all over, but not aware that many keyboard in gamer community are cheaper even with better quality. Das was primarly marketing to programers, but recently
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by xahlee 10y ago
it is correct to write programer with single m. Check any major dictionary. I use Truly Ergonomic Keyboard.
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by xahlee 11y ago
hi, you might give it a try. Many who used emacs for 10 to 20 years wrote to say they absolutely love it and switched. You can see them in the testimonials section. Matthew Fidler introduced a theme system, so you can change any key you don
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by xahlee 11y ago
thanks for the post! by the way, there's earlier hackernews discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=695893
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by xahlee 11y ago
emacs lisp cannot load one line of a file. It's whole or nothing.
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by xahlee 11y ago
con shouldn't be used, especially today. see this Guy Steele article: Guy Steele on Parallel Programing: Get rid of cons! http://xahlee.info/comp/Guy_Steele_parallel_computing.html “Get rid of cons!” is the exact
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by xahlee 11y ago
which way to use let is just a personal taste. When i begin in elisp, i ALWAYS stick with this form of using local var: (let (x y z) (setq ...) (setq ...) (setq ...) ... ) This makes it easier to read all lo
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by xahlee 11y ago
hi PuercoPop, that code is meant to be run as a script (emacs --script filename), so i used setq is possibly more proper. But, this is just post-fact defense, as lots my pages began as quick blogs. As you know, CL has controversial status i
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by xahlee 11y ago
what a malicious lie. I have written some 10 packages, at least hundred thousand lines of emacs lisp since 2005, all public in github or on my website. http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/xah_emacs_modes.html the only borrowed
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by xahlee 13y ago
how is it not possible to run emacs with azerty keyboard? is there something preventing you from starting emacs? or some key efficiency issue??
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by xahlee 13y ago
here's what i think. in both ijkl and hjkl, you have one finger doing 2 keys. In vi, it's pointing finger doing hj, moving side ways. In ijkl, it's middle finger doing up down. So i think ijkl is slightly better. I remember s
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by xahlee 16y ago
awesome. gosh that page is ranked 5! I still think google is best and trustworthy, but i also felt the problem of content farm in recent years as others. I run my site and find it troublesome that many spammy sites contact me to buy links.