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Re: An Emacs Chat With Sacha Chua

Steve Purcell — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 02:27:37 -0000

I'm happy you found it helpful.

Re: An Emacs Chat With Sacha Chua

Steve Purcell — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:10:00 -0000

Haha, thanks, glad you enjoyed it. :-)

Re: Comment Boxes

Steve Purcell — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:54:16 -0000

For that case you can always use "C-78 ;" to insert a line of 78 semicolons. The rest is then pretty easy. Where the above function helps is filling in the right-hand edge of the box.

Re: A Reminder about MELPA

Steve Purcell — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 22:00:14 -0000

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Re: A Reminder about MELPA

Steve Purcell — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 18:28:05 -0000

Thanks Jon, also for the tip. :-)

I saw the post and wasn't too irked: it was a somewhat reasonable question, and I could have done more by now to mitigate the effects of my limited time on MELPA's review cycle. For instance, I've long promised to write a guide for maintainers, but I persist in doing the work (fun) instead of writing up how to do the work (not fun).

Recently I submitted a recipe update for Homebrew - a project that must be enormously more popular than MELPA - and it took many weeks to get accepted, through a couple of light-touch maintainers. So now I don't feel so bad about my service levels!

I think the issue in both cases is that there fundamentally aren't many people available with the time, experience and motivation to do this free work.

Re: Our Use of the Haskell and Elm Programming Languages

Steve Purcell — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:42:07 -0000

Thanks for asking. Much of the interesting stuff is behind the scenes, and I will write more about it if I get chance, but I'm hoping to put together a demo video from a user's perspective soon, because we don't have a good video yet - I'll post a link here once that's done!

Re: Our Use of the Haskell and Elm Programming Languages

Steve Purcell — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 19:50:33 -0000

Yeah, if you actively want to use lots of javascript, and are willing to risk your app's reliability on that, then Elm's likely not the right choice. Happy to hear ReasonML is working out for you!

Re: Our Use of the Haskell and Elm Programming Languages

Steve Purcell — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 21:26:00 -0000

I read Real World Haskell and a bunch of non-book resources. Nowadays I would recommend everyone start with the Haskell Book (haskellbook.com). One thing to be aware of is that you'll still feel like a beginner for a long time, but you can very quickly become net-productive in Haskell, so don't let a lack of understanding of concepts stop you from writing code: in any language, writing code is the best way to make progress (for me, at least). Best of luck!

Re: Steve Purcell

Steve Purcell — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 03:34:39 -0000

I'm so touched that you took the time to write this. Thanks, and best wishes for a happy 2018!

Re: On vim vs Emacs - sanity, inc.

Steve Purcell — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 02:16:36 -0000

Hi! No, sorry, I don't really have any documentation about my custom keybindings: you'd have to read the config itself to find this out, for the most part.

However, I have enabled a package called "guide-key" in my config, so many common prefix keys like "C-x" will display a menu showing which keys/commands are available next.

Re: Integrate iTerm2 in your Emacs setup

Steve Purcell — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 20:16:33 -0000

Couple of tips: `get-file-dir-or-home` can much more easily be defined as `(or default-directory "~")`. And you might need some use of the `shell-quote-argument` function or similar to make your code work with directories that contain spaces or quote marks in their names.

Re: Fill and unfill paragraphs with a single key

Steve Purcell — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 23:41:07 -0000

I think the thing is that `last-command` will end up having the marker property on it even if `last-command` is `execute-extended-command` and not the toggle command.

Re: Fill and unfill paragraphs with a single key

Steve Purcell — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 16:25:43 -0000

Note that Xah's version (see the commentary in the above) has a trick
for making this work with `M-x` too, involving setting a marker property
on `this-command` that can be checked the next time. This works even if
`this-command` isn't the actual command being run.

Re: Fill and unfill paragraphs with a single key

Steve Purcell — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:03:27 -0000

I rewrote my unfill package to use this code rather than the old code I'd borrowed from Xah's site. https://github.com/purcell/...

Re: Disable Mouse only inside Emacs · Endless Parentheses

Steve Purcell — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 23:09:31 -0000

Oh, wow, I just wrote and published a new package called disable-mouse without having seen this post. Lots of overlap, including the naming -- great minds think alike, I guess! Sorry for clobbering your namespace. :-)

https://github.com/purcell/...

Re: Manage processes with proced - Emacs Redux

Steve Purcell — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:46:49 -0000

I've asked on the corresponding bug report: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/...

Re: Manage processes with proced - Emacs Redux

Steve Purcell — Tue, 26 Apr 2016 05:44:15 -0000

I think it's gone into master, so 25.2, but I'll see if I can encourage someone to get it into 25.1.

Re: Manage processes with proced - Emacs Redux

Steve Purcell — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 18:21:49 -0000

We just merged a patch to Emacs master which makes proced work on OS X too. :-)

Re: Adjusting Text Size in Emacs

Steve Purcell — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:46:48 -0000

I also wrote "default-text-scale" to quickly scale all fonts up, not just those in the current buffer: https://github.com/purcell/...

Re: Size of Postgresql database on Ubuntu :: Jakub Chodounský :: The diary of a software developer

Steve Purcell — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 03:22:26 -0000

You can also see the size of the tables inside a specific database like this:


SELECT schemaname, tablename,
pg_size_pretty(size) AS size_pretty,
pg_size_pretty(total_size) AS total_size_pretty
FROM (SELECT *,
pg_relation_size(schemaname||'.'||tablename) AS size,
pg_total_relation_size(schemaname||'.'||tablename) AS total_size
FROM pg_tables) AS TABLES
ORDER BY total_size DESC;

This doesn't include indexes, which will often account for additional space.

Re: Do Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall look like leaders?

Steve Purcell — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 06:21:58 -0000

Space on the internet may well be essentially free, but this is still an utter waste of it.

Re: New in Package.el in Emacs 25.1: Better dependency management

Steve Purcell — Thu, 21 May 2015 07:54:27 -0000

Thanks for your work on this.

Re: Building MELPA packages locally - Emacs Redux

Steve Purcell — Sun, 10 May 2015 05:00:37 -0000

Also, if you want to create a new recipe, then once you've loaded "package-build.el", you can use "M-x package-build-create-recipe".

Re: Cause Célèbre – Gender Split behind Celebrity Charity Work

Steve Purcell — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 10:08:10 -0000

I run looktothestars.org, from which the raw data for this came, so thanks for the mention, and for the beautiful visualisation! We've looked at some of these stats ourselves, and it turns out gender is one of several factors statistically associated with biases towards certain causes. Another factor is a person's profession, as evidenced by the increased affinity for Conservation charities among celebrities from the field of science.

Re: Mithril

Steve Purcell — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 15:17:13 -0000

Thanks so much for taking the time to write this, Leo. I'm attempting to build a hybrid mobile app using mithril, and in this context animations are very important, particularly those between pages.