Emacs Protip: other-window commands

In order to get better at emacs I’m focusing on a few keyboard shortcuts at a time in order to really grok it and start using them effectively.

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Fire Emblem: Coping With Loss

The battle was drawing to a close. My heroes had dispatched of the Mad King Gangrel a few turns previous, and were now finishing off the last of the desperate loyalists. And then, on the second to last turn I made the mistake of putting Olivia, the talented young Dancer who had only just joined my forces, within range of an enemy warrior. Disaster.

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Something Cool (Pt. 2)

In an earlier post I wrote about a way to implement cons, car and cdr (also known as pair, first, and second) using only function definitions and if statements in javascript. That was pretty mindblowing for me, but it turns out there is an a way to do without even using branching logic.

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Maintainer blues

I’ve been maintaining emacs-eclim for a couple of years now. I like it, since that means I can push my commits to the repo with minimal fuss. And for a long period of time, that was all that mattered, since there weren’t a lot of other users around.

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