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Swimming in code: recent hacks

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Recently I've been on a hacking high, touching a lot of code, and in touch with a lot of cool programmers. In retrospect I'm surprised at the variety of stuff I've been doing, so I thought I'd write a short list.

Full-screen support for Cocoa Emacs on OS X

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Prolific Japanese hacker Daisuke Murase (a.k.a. typester) has recently patched Cocoa Emacs to add a full-screen display mode. Here's how to add this must-have feature into your own local Emacs tree while you wait for it to get integrated into the official Emacs sources.

Open "txmt:" URLs from Rails backtraces using Emacs on OS X

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When Rails prints a backtrace in HTML, it's helpfully rendered as a "txmt:" link so that users can click open the corresponding location in TextMate on OS X. If you're an Emacs user, here's how to make those URLs open in Emacs instead.

On vim vs emacs

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I often hear the proponents of vim and emacs discussing which is better, usually pitting emacs' extensibility against vi's archaic yet arguably effective and tendon-friendly scheme of editing modes.

But why choose?

Part-way to an emacs git-svn mode

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Interacting with git from within emacs is a pleasure, thanks to the official git-mode and Christian Neukirchen's fantastic gitsum mode. Here are some convenient bindings for running git-svn from emacs.

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