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.

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.

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.

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?

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.