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Who do you think God really favors in the web?

25th August 2008

Steven Brust is a big tease.

His most recent Vlad Taltos novel is full of tease for two reasons:

  • He jumps back in the timeline so that we hear nothing of Lady Teldra.
  • The acknowledgements of the novel mention the use of some "emacs macros" with no hint of what they are, or why he uses them.

It was a fun read though, and didn't make me as hungry as the previous volume did. (Mmmmmm pies food.)

I always liked him as an author, and he rocks for publishing Dzur around the time I was telling local people "Too many people seem to write novels in which nobody really eats. Forget all that action, dialog, and exposition. Lets have a bunch of folk sit down and eat an exceptionally well described meal."

(Many things that people do are never described in books. We all know why. Still on the same subject I love the scene in Terry Pratchetts Pyramids where Teppic puts his outfit on. "And slowly falls over". Nice)

ObFilm: Blade

Tags: authors:brust, authors:pratchett, books, emacs. | 1 comment.

 

Alcohol's illegal this month

31st May 2008

Busy times, despite being on holiday.

Mostly this has been doing "business" work, and fiddling with self-promotion. But despite this I managed to find time to write some extremely useful new Lisp:

Anyway very little time over the coming week will be spent online. All being well. Still enjoying playing with my (loaned) Nokia 770 - maybe I'll get another one of my own eventually.

ObQuote: 30 Days Of Night

Tags: emacs, holiday, random. | No comments

 

so you might get lucky, and you might not

7th April 2008
Emacs

One thing I do a lot is select a region of text, then have it replaced with the output of a command.

The most common job is sorting a number of lines, such as "use XX:YY;" lines in perl scripts.

Finally having gotten annoyed enough about how clunky shell-command-on-region was I wrote my own lisp function:

Only after that did I discover M-x sort-lines. D'oh. Still I guess my solution is more general, and less difficult to use. (I find the use of the Emacs prefix troublesome to type; since you have to do it in advance - I almost always forget.)

I also learnt of M-x list-matching-lines yesterday. Thats a new discovery which really rocks. (I can use "^sub " to find a list of subroutines, etc.)

NEW-queue

This could be improved, and fleshed out a lot if there were any interest.

But its neat as-is:

#!/bin/sh
#
#  Dump packages in the NEW queue.
#
#  This could be improved, perhaps:
#
#  --show-names --show-dates, etc.  Or just show all info in a table.
#
wget --quiet -O-  http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html | \
 perl -ne 'print $1 . "\n" if ( $_ =~ /^<td valign="top" class="sid">([^<]+)<\/td>$/ )'

I thought there was something similar in the devscripts package, or contained within debian-goodies but apparently not.

ObQuote:Battle Royale

Tags: debian, emacs, new-queue. | 2 comments.