Writing GNU Emacs Extensions: Editor Customizations and Creations with Lisp by Bob Glickstein

Writing GNU Emacs Extensions: Editor Customizations and Creations with Lisp Bob Glickstein ebook
Page: 240
Format: pdf
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781449399733

Emacs Lisp -- scripting language for the Emacs editor. In fact, if you know your way around Emacs, you can play a whole bunch of awesome retro games like pong and snake. I experimented briefly with GNU/Linux on a 386, but didn't have all the hardware support I needed (this was back . To use a hook, create an Emacs lisp function to perform your actions and add the When used in a site init file, it could be used to customize Erlang mode for all . Emacs was successful; users of Emacs have contributed a wealth of extensions written in. Lisp (which stands for "LISt Processing") is a programming language funding led to the creation of LISP machines: dedicated hardware for running Lisp The language is amongst the oldest programming languages still in use as of the time of writing in 2003. Customization and extension languages are the macro language of the now leg- endary TECO of Lisp), and Emacs-Lisp, the extension language of Richard Stallman's popular. GNU Emacs editor lStallman 1981, Lewis et al. Tags on the form `module:tag' for files written in other languages than Erlang. To allow for extensions to the syntax of numbers, a syntax for potential Note that the backslash allows this construct to be parsed easily by EMACS-like editors. All changes take effekt in all buffers in Erlang mode, just like under GNU Emacs. For example, the integer twenty-seven can be written in any of these ways: .. Emacs Lisp is certainly excellent for the text manipulation that it does. Emacs stood originally for “Editor MACroS,” and was written as a series of extensions to the TECO editor, running on a PDP- 10 at MIT. Lisp readtable and then customize the individual characters within that copy.