Terminally Undead

[This post, aimed at text editing aficionados especially in the Emacs and Vim camps, advocates using Emacs Evil in a configuration that replaces Evil Insert state with vanilla Emacs to gain the best of both Emacs and Vim editing styles.

Mindstream is a new Emacs extension for any kind of writing, including programming.

This post was written for Day 8 of the Racket Advent Calendar.

[In tribute to Bram Moolenaar, 1961 – 3 August 2023, creator of Vim.

A number of years ago, at my first job out of college, I was working for a company that found itself in the swell of the then-nascent cloud computing wave.

So, you’ve written a Racket library and now you’d like to make it widely available.

Note: I originally developed this as a programming exercise as part of a tutorial for the Qi programming language in the Racket language ecosystem.

[This is about Symex.el, the Emacs extension for structural editing with Lisp.

A quick movement out of the corner of your eye, but it’s gone as you turn to look.

When we say something like 5 + 3, we aren’t usually surprised to learn that we are speaking of 8.