Emacs Related Essays

This page are some misc essays elated to emacs and lisp.

Emacs Problems

Text Editing Related

• Emergency vi (5 min tutorial on vi)

Text Editing and code formatting related topics.

• Extend Selection By Semantic Unit (describes a syntax-coloring that's grammar aware)
• A Simple Lisp Code Formatter (describes the need for a lisp code reformatter)
• Tabs vs Spaces in Source Code (opinion on Tabs vs Space in source code formatting)
• The Harm of hard-wrapping Lines (opinion on hard-wrapped lines)

Keyboarding

Keyboarding related.

• How To Avoid The Emacs Pinky Problem
• Why You Should Not Swap Caps Lock With Control
• Review of Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard, Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
• The Confusion of Emacs's Keystroke Representation (“C-q C-j”, “\n”, “^J”, “RET”.)
• Emacs, Dvorak, C-x

• How To Create Your Own Keybinding In Mac OS X
• How To Create Your Own Keybinding In Microsoft Windows

Lisp

Language Criticism

• Fundamental Problems of Lisp
• The Concepts and Confusions of Prefix, Infix, Postfix and Fully Nested Notations
• Lisp's List Problem
• Why Lisp Do Not Have A Generic Copy-List Function
• A Ruby Illustration of Lisp Problems
• The Jargon “Lisp1” vs “Lisp2” (why should we avoid these jargons)

Logo

• Artworks: The Emacs Logo, LISP Logo, Qi Language Logo.
• The Lambda Logo Tour (artwork gallery; commentary)
• Lisp Needs A Logo (illustrated essay)

Misc

• The Operative Efficiency of Emacs's Deleting Text to kill-ring (thoughts on deleting text without pushing to kill-ring)
• Text Processing: Emacs Lisp vs Perl (How Perl's Lies Damaged the Computing Community)

• Why Learn Lisp When There Are Perl And Python (one tech advantage of lisp)
• Lispers and Wikipedia (lispers should use Wikipedia more)
• A Typing Game in Emacs

Xah Lee

• Xah Lee's Emacs Customization File
• My Experience of Emacs vs XEmacs
• My First Encounter And Impression Of Lisp
• What Is Your Favorite Lisp
• Emacs Irc Channel Ban On Xah Lee

Difference between Emacs's “(setenv PATH ...)” and “(setq exec-path ...)”