Diary of an Emacs tragic

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  • There will be Emacs Chocolate at the #Emacs Meetup Melbourne

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    I decided to make something special for the inaugural Australian emacs meetup. If you want some, come to the Melbourne emacs meetup. Sofia’s Camberwell. 857 Burke Road Camberwell 3124 Victoria, Australia Friday April 26, 2013 6:00 PM

  • Launching cygwin emacs from native win32 programs

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    My business’s accounting program, which I’ll call Canopus, has issues. One of which is that it assumes wordpad.exe will be in c:\windows. As far as I know, Microsoft moved wordpad.exe’s default location away from c:\windows about 20 years ago. Canopus live in hope that it will be there so installing Canopus always requires one to…

  • Project Euler No. 2 in Emacs elisp

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    My second Project Euler solution. Project Euler No. 2 This was a little tougher to solve than No. 1. I decided to use recursion to solve it, and as I haven’t had to write anything that used recursion since I was at Uni, it took me a while go remember how to do it. Also,…

  • Install perl modules automatically using lib::xi

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    So you’ve downloaded a really cool perl script but it has 200 module dependencies? You could just install them one by one with cpanm or, you could use lib::xi. It automatically installs modules your perl script uses. # to install missing libaries automatically $ perl -Mlib::xi script.pl

  • OAuth 2.0 in emacs – Part 4

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    Finally managed to authenticate against WordPress.com using the oauth2 library. Here is my sample code which returns an access token. (let ((code (oauth2-request-authorization “https://public-api.wordpress.com/oauth2/authorize?blog=jasonblewis.wordpress.com” “2194” “” “” “https://emacstragic.net”) )) (oauth2-request-access “https://public-api.wordpress.com/oauth2/token” “2194” “” code “https://emacstragic.net” ) ) WordPress at least seems to be fussy about what you use as the Redirect URI. It needs to…

  • Project Euler No. 1 in Emacs elisp

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    My first Project Euler solution, and my first emacs elisp program. Multiples of 3 and 5. If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23. Find the sum of all the multiples of 3…

  • emacs elisp first attempts

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    For a long time I have wanted to learn elisp in emacs. I tried the various tutorials but I get bored of them too quickly. Too many words not enough action for me. I was reminded of Project Euler by Daniel Silverstone so I thought I’d have a crack at one of the problems. No.…

  • OAuth 2.0 in emacs – Part 3

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    I’m still stuck with WordPress and OAuth 2.0. I sent a support email to them but they have not followed up yet. I did find the problem described on Stack Overflow with no solution yet either. I thought I might try and get OAuth 2.0 working with a different service. Twitter does not appear to…

  • OAuth 2.0 in emacs – Part 2

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    Back the basics. Reading through the docs again I decided try and and authorise using this url first. https://public-api.wordpress.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=2194&redirect_uri=https://emacstragic.net&response_type=code This takes me to a wordpress.com page to ask me to authorise. So, then it started to make sense to me. (oauth2-request-authorization “https://public-api.wordpress.com/oauth2/authorize” “2194” “” “” “https://emacstragic.net”) That above function launches your browser on the wordpress…

  • OAuth 2.0 in emacs – Part 1

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    I want to write something in emacs to let me edit WordPress posts directly. There is of course the blogger-mode in emacs, but I’ve never managed to make that work. Then I noticed that JetPack in WordPress has a JSON interface. Supposedly it will let me do stuff to my blog via a REST interface.…