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:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.