"It's kind of hard to appreciate the differences [between Zmacs and Emacs) from reading a description. It's even hard to appreciate it from using Zmacs. Where the light dawns is when you've been using Zmacs for a while and go back to using plain old Emacs... (more…)

I got an Elisp idea today and even went as far as implementing a proof of concept for it: distributed computing with Emacs Lisp. As usual for me the idea takes advantage of Lisp features to make the task pretty simple, very specifically Elisp's implement... (more…)

Use a dedicated stack for bytecode, instead of using the C stack. Stack frames are managed explicitly and we stay in the same exec_byte_code activation throughout bytecode function calls and return... (more…)

Org-mode. Complex so you don't have to be. A versatile organisational system with immense capabilities. (more…)

Ledger is a command line accounting tool for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Transactions are stored in a simple text format, so your data is available wherever you... (more…)