davep
davep
Dave Pearson
My personal blog which covers a handful of main topics and wanders through all sorts of subjects. Mostly you'll see me writing about coding and Python and a bit of Emacs and so on; but sometimes there will be more random thoughts and personal stuff.
Latest Posts
Back when I first really got into writing Emacs Lisp code, one of the first things I got very used to and really fell in love with was being able to eval-last-sexp (C-x C-e) the code I was writing, either to test it right there in the...
A wee bit over 5 years back I wrote a tiny package to quickly insert PHONY target markers into a Makefile. While it's far from my most-used package, it's one that gets a call on occasion, so it's one I still carry around in my Emacs...
Following on from yesterday's release, I've bumped blogmore.el to v2.5. The main change to the package is the thing I mentioned yesterday about the toggle of the draft status. The draft toggle yesterday was pretty simple, with it working...
I've just published v2.8.0 of BlogMore to PyPI. This is a small update which addresses a bug that Andy reported. The fix was simple enough, and is another little interesting thing to keep in mind given that BlogMore is an ongoing Copilot...
I've just released a little update to blogmore.el, adding blogmore-toggle-draft as a command. This came about in connection with the feature request that resulted in BlogMore v2.7.0 being released. While I don't personally use draft for...
Given I've been on a little bit of an Emacs Lisp side quest, it's been a couple or so days since I made a release of BlogMore. Today's release comes after a feature request about draft posts. While support for marking posts as drafts,...
Some time in the late 1990s, after I'd been using GNU Emacs for a few years1, I grabbed a copy of Writing GNU Emacs Extensions. While I'd obviously created and added to and tinkered with my ~/.emacs some, I'd never written any...
This bit of Emacs Lisp absolutely comes from a more innocent time on the Internet. Looking at it, it seems I wrote the first version, at least as a proper package, back in 2001. It's very possible that I carried a non-package version of...