Gustaf Waldemarson (Emacs and Elisp)

Updated Format Specifier Highlighting in Emacs

Gustaf Waldemarson — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 10:09:42 GMT

What feels like ages ago now, I wrote a short post about improving the syntax highlighting of format specifiers for printf style functions (actually, all strings). While it has worked great for a long time, it is about time to give it a bit of a face-lift and at the same time make it even more general.

The first item on the agenda however, is to make the original regexp, manageable. When we finished things up, we were left with the following:

Personal ELPA Archive

Gustaf Waldemarson — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 13:32:13 GMT

There's been a few times over the years when I wanted to install an Emacs package that was not available on any of the common package distributers, such as GNU ELPA or MELPA. Most recently I wanted to install llvm-mode, but that package have recently been removed due to the size of the llvm repository. Previously, I would have just ended up not using the package at all or possibly adding the package to my own configuration repository if I really wanted to use it. This time however, I decided to try to figure out what it would take to setup your own Emacs package distribution server, and as it turns out, with a pre-existing webserver, there's only a few file conventions that need to be fulfilled on the host and client sides to do just that.

Clang Format

Gustaf Waldemarson — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:32:13 GMT

I often write code in C or C++ and frequently use clang-format to automatically format the code I'm writing. Although, occasionally I get into a situation where I should use a different coding style while I'm in a particular subdirectory.

Set Variable in Hook

Gustaf Waldemarson — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 10:42:36 GMT

I've just recently started to use helm-dash for most of my documentation look-ups. I did however find it a bit awkward to configure. For it to work its magic, each major-mode should set helm-dash-docsets to a list of strings with the docsets it should activate. The most straightforward way that I found to do this was this was with a small lambda in the major-mode hook.

Printf Format Highlighting

Gustaf Waldemarson — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 08:24:55 GMT

Most of my work is done in either C or C++, so I frequently use the printf family of functions to write a wide variety of stuff to the display. Naturally, I'd like the format specifiers to stand out from the rest of the characters in the strings, so for the longest time I used this piece of elisp code to achieve that:

Emacs, Elisp and Org Mode

Gustaf Waldemarson — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 20:00:46 GMT

I have a confession to make.

I'm sort of an Emacs fanatic.

Well, perhaps fanatic is a strong word but it does reflect the manner in which I try to integrate my whole workflow into and around it. And so far, I rarely ever have to leave the leave Emacs or the terminal. Best of all, I almost never have move my hand those dreadful decimeters to the right to use the mouse.