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... but emacs itself is implemented in C: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/tree/master/src (and I don't think anyone would call the LISP parts of it fast in any meaningful usage of the term - just loading some semi-heavy config can…

comment by jcelerier · 2021-04-26 · in Java for Everything (2014)

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/... 1997 is actually later than I would've thought.

comment by hprotagonist · 2021-04-08 · in Hooking keyboard input to play Snake in Notepad.exe (2020)

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2... says, "This is a bug-fix release with no new features." But I don't understand what the bugs were.

comment by kragen · 2021-03-25 · in Emacs 27.2

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GNU Emacs Jokes

story by mpsq · 2021-03-23 · 0 comments

…Spacemacs user, perhaps give Doom Emacs a try. [1] https://github.com/alex-hhh/emacs-sql-indent [2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.2... [3] https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs/issues/3787 [4]…

comment by natrys · 2021-03-05 · in Zola: A fast static site generator in a single binary

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Changes in Emacs 17 (1999)

story by susam · 2020-12-14 · 0 comments

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Emacs Buffer.c Source Code

story by jasim · 2020-09-26 · 0 comments

…source code is also worth reading. It's not simple, but it's simple enough to be understandable: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/7b3e94b6648ed00c6... I like emacs source code because it handles "every possible real-world case…

comment by sillysaurusx · 2020-09-24 · in Compiling a Lisp: Reader

The C code in GNU Emacs does a bit more than implementing a 'Lisp interpreter'. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/tree/master/src Quite a bit of the actual GNU Emacs application is using libraries written in C. See for example the font…

comment by lispm · 2020-06-30 · in Greatest Java apps

…is me feeding the human part of the conversation featured in the Facebook blog post into doctor.el. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/...

comment by oefrha · 2020-05-07 · in Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Emacs 27.1 to improve performance with long lines

story by clircle · 2019-07-14 · 0 comments

…year? Emacs has had that since last century[0], I think. How do you people live like this? :-) [0]: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.1...

comment by AlexCoventry · 2019-05-13 · in Debugging in Vim

…added no later than 1992. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rm... [2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/rot13...

comment by nickdrozd · 2018-10-21 · in Evolution of Emacs Lisp [pdf]

…checking any enclosing socpes. A random line of lisp: (setcdr current (list :args (cdr current))) https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/wid-e... could mean anything depending on the enclosing scopes. Pretty sure…

comment by heinrichhartman · 2018-10-13 · in The Problem with Lisp

…and Elisp - not only the VM is coded in C, but there are other parts written in C. See for example: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/frame.... Then Elisp is the extension language for writing extensions (like minor or…

comment by lispm · 2018-07-21 · in Emacs and TLS

…section of proposed backronyms, along with a bunch of other 20-30 year-old jokey bits from usenet: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/JOKES EMACS may stand for "Editing MACroS," but some friends of mine suggested some…

comment by jzl · 2018-06-15 · in What do Unix command names stand for?

In addition to the sentinel/in-band replies, they also put properties on that symbol: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/81b5131e11fa96d32... ( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sy... )

comment by kwoff · 2018-06-01 · in Emacs 26 Brings Generators and Threads

Yes, the dirstate. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/de76a167dc09dc6...

comment by quotemstr · 2018-05-02 · in Python startup time: milliseconds matter

Emacs likes pointer reversal tricks! https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/cc8ae51e6f62f86d0... (Unrelated, but an amusing coincidence.)

comment by sillysaurus3 · 2018-03-02 · in Let's make the Emacs GC safe and iterative

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Fixed some UI issues. Pull Request #6 – emacs-mirror/emacs

story by mpweiher · 2018-01-13 · 0 comments

…replacing it in this case. https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/mkstemp... https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/65eee8392ff95f58f...

comment by swhipple · 2017-07-17 · in Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust

…network. The local socket opened is used only for configuration between emacs and emacsclient see: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lib-src/em...

comment by hexa00 · 2017-07-03 · in Theia – One IDE for Desktop and Cloud

…oftware/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Sp... ), some of the more complex features require backtracking: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/0648edf3e05e224ee... That's an area where continuations really shine, because the…

comment by sillysaurus3 · 2017-07-02 · in What’s in a Continuation (2016)

…documentation, but it turns out that directly reading its code is not so bad in this case: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/progm... In particular, you need to set the `python-shell-interpreter` variable to "ipython"…

comment by cjauvin · 2017-05-10 · in Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE

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Xdg.el

story by slumos · 2017-05-02 · 0 comments

…when on MacOSX emojis were colored, what was not the case on Linux, so it was disabled on MacOSX. https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/emacs-25.1/etc/NE...

comment by fleg · 2017-05-02 · in Homebrew 1.2.0

It is supported on OS X as well: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/unexma... (And Windows: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/unexw3... , https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/w32hea...…

comment by to3m · 2016-12-01 · in The Emacs dumper dispute

…Emacs must hate MacOS, even though many Emacs contributors and plugins authors are using it: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/emacs-25.1/etc/NE...

comment by bad_user · 2016-11-28 · in Stallman’s Law

…[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel [2] http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Implicit_patent_grant [3] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/emacs-25.1/etc/NE...

comment by bad_user · 2016-11-24 · in MacOS 10.12 Open Source Components

…means that (in time, it's not very usable as-is) we will get the in-buffer, full web browser. [1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/pulse/monthly

comment by klibertp · 2016-11-22 · in How Eve unifies your entire programming stack

…font until it is supported on + free platforms. */ + if (sym_traits & kCTFontTraitColorGlyphs) https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/9344612d3cd1643...

comment by burke · 2016-11-22 · in Bye Bye Emojis: Emacs Hates MacOS

This is the commit in question: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/c29071587c64efb... for those interested.

comment by ekr · 2016-10-30 · in Buttery Smooth Emacs

Full changelog: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/emacs-25.1/etc/NE...

comment by cm3 · 2016-09-17 · in Emacs 25.1 released

…with the lisp code, defining macros like EQ and DEFUN. It's kind of fun to read (for me, anyway). https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/buffer...

comment by rpdillon · 2016-03-14 · in Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?

…Edit: Holy Cow! The new version in emacs is much more involved: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/src/fileio... "For technical reasons, this function can return correct but non-intuitive results for the roo

comment by jhallenworld · 2016-01-05 · in Please do not delete this commented-out version

…that. Official Git repo: https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=emacs Unofficial github mirror repo: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs

comment by josteink · 2015-08-21 · in GCC is moving to git

…rather than in a separate Excel or LibreOffice spreadsheet. [1] http://orgmode.org/manual/ [2] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/ido.e... [3] http://orgmode.org/manual/The-spreadsheet.html

comment by subsection1h · 2015-07-30 · in Ask HN: What are your note-taking techniques?

…of small tools, DSLs, CS theory: state machines / regular expressions, Thompson algorithm ... https://github.com/mirrors/emacs - Both a program and a VM for a programming language, hooks, before/after/around advices, modes, asynchronous…

comment by stiff · 2014-01-03 · in Teaching Software Architecture with GitHub

…keep fearing the parens! Emacs is still being actively developed, v24.4 is in feature freeze: https://github.com/mirrors/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS (that's 1200+ lines of changelog for 24.4) How many pieces of software can you name that…

comment by FatalBaboon · 2013-12-26 · in Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors

…meant RMS stopped coding ages ago then you are wrong. He still contributes quite a lot to Emacs ( https://github.com/mirrors/emacs/commits/master ) I am pretty sure I can dig up other projects he is still coding in. but RMS hasn't stopped…

comment by gnufied · 2013-07-24 · in Famous Emacs Users (that are not famous for using Emacs)