p3r7/awesome-elisp: 🏵️ A curated list of Emacs Lisp development resources
One of those “awesome list” lists, of all things Emacs Lisp.
Debugging Elisp Part 1: Earn your independence · Endless Parentheses
Straightfoward guide to debugging Emacs lisp.
Towards a Cleaner Emacs Build – Random Thoughts
Blog post about the cleaning up of lots of warnings in the compilation of Elisp code in Emacs itself.
Emacs users are like Igor
An amusing description of your average Emacs user.
EmacsConf - Main Page
The Emacs conference. The 2019 conference is online.
Projectile ignoring .projectile files : emacs
Helpful comment on configuring projectile so that it finds a project under strict control. I want to be fully in control of what appears to be a project, and this is what I needed.
Ultra-minimalist presentation minor-mode for Emacs org-mode.
Nice simple presentation mode for Emacs and Org.
emacs-piper
Package for using Emacs in a more shell-like way, but while doing it in a very Emacs-like way. Contains interactive tools for pipeline manipulation, as well as a scripting language, of sorts
Emacs Lisp Animations
Potentially useful and fun introduction to programming in Emacs Lisp, that actually gives results people might enjoy.
A Makefile for Emacs Packages « null program
Good blog post that talks about effective use of Makefiles when building and managing Emacs Lisp code.
Exploring Emacs chart Library
Despite using it since the mid 1990s, I'd never noticed that Emacs had acquired a pretty good charting library. This blog post is a pretty good introduction to it.
A Personal Emacs Package Repo | Irreal
That time someone blogged about my Emacs config.
Bringing GNU Emacs to Native Code
Paper that describes how native compilation of Emacs Lisp code can be done. Potentially appearing in Emacs 28, I believe.
My simple note-taking system for Emacs (without Org)
Interesting article on one person's approach to taking and keeping notes in Emacs without faffing about with org-mode
Reinstalling Emacs Packages | Emacs Redux
Handy little hint for how to fully reload a package in Emacs.
xr: A new weapon for your regex arsenal – Emacs Notes
This looks seriously handy: take a regular expression, throw it at this tool, and get an rx expression out of the other side!
Evolution of Emacs Lisp | Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
While Emacs proponents largely agree that it is the world’s greatest text editor, it is almost as much a Lisp machine disguised as an editor. Indeed, one of its chief appeals is that it is programmable via its own programming language. Emacs Lisp is a Lisp in the classic tradition. In this article, we present the history of this language over its more than 30 years of evolution. Its core has remained remarkably stable since its inception in 1985, in large part to preserve compatibility with the many third-party packages providing a multitude of extensions. Still, Emacs Lisp has evolved and continues to do so.
Important aspects of Emacs Lisp have been shaped by concrete requirements of the editor it supports as well as implementation constraints. These requirements led to the choice of a Lisp dialect as Emacs’s language in the first place, specifically its simplicity and dynamic nature: Loading additional Emacs packages or changing the ones in place occurs frequently, and having to restart the editor in order to re-compile or re-link the code would be unacceptable. Fulfilling this requirement in a more static language would have been difficult at best.
One of Lisp’s chief characteristics is its malleability through its uniform syntax and the use of macros. This has allowed the language to evolve much more rapidly and substantively than the evolution of its core would suggest, by letting Emacs packages provide new surface syntax alongside new functions. In particular, Emacs Lisp can be customized to look much like Common Lisp, and additional packages provide multiple-dispatch object systems, legible regular expressions, programmable pattern-matching constructs, generalized variables, and more. Still, the core has also evolved, albeit slowly. Most notably, it acquired support for lexical scoping.
The timeline of Emacs Lisp development is closely tied to the projects and people who have shaped it over the years: We document Emacs Lisp history through its predecessors, Mocklisp and MacLisp, its early development up to the “Emacs schism” and the fork of Lucid Emacs, the development of XEmacs, and the subsequent rennaissance of Emacs development.
Elisp in replacement string
Something I've never really paid attention to, and it's actually quite a powerful feature: when doing search/repalce in Emacs you can replace with Elisp code (as in, Elisp code can provide the replacement).