Getting starting using emacs

I plan to post some of my elisp code from emacs customizations. I want them to be pretty and useful, so I wrote an elisp brush for the SyntaxHighlighter javascript library. There are only a few styles defined, but I think it adds to the code’s readability. I have included the comments, strings, tags and hashes of elisp in the styles. I have also set special coloring for a collection of the ‘def’ commands. A sample set is shown below. ;; Comment (defun declared-function-name (basic-function "string1") (another-function :tag value)) ;; Another comment (defcustom custom-var t) (defface face) (defvar variable ‘setting) (defmacro like/a/function) ;; Last Comment (defadvice printMsg (before ‘basic-function) (message "Marco!")) That example is a bit too colorful for my taste, but I am hopeful that the highlighting will add something to real world elisp examples. The implementation … Read More »

All blogs and websites need to start somewhere. Here is mine with this first post. I intend to use this space to write about tools (mostly software) and techniques that I find interesting. I am hopeful that this will serve as a place where I can not only share my knowledge, but improve upon it. I am especially interested in using this medium to improve my writing and technical explanations. In the near term, I expect to share some tools that I use regularly along with why and how I use them. By sharing my workflow/toolset, I can also receive critiques on how to improve. I have already found that to be useful at work where we do just that! Thanks for being here and please feel free to interact through email, IM, comments and critiques.