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Dave Pearson
My personal blog which covers a handful of main topics and wanders through all sorts of subjects. Mostly you'll see me writing about coding and Python and a bit of Emacs and so on; but sometimes there will be more random thoughts and personal stuff.
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I've just released a little update to blogmore.el, adding blogmore-toggle-draft as a command. This came about in connection with the feature request that resulted in BlogMore v2.7.0 being released. While I don't personally use draft for my posts, I can see the utility of it and if someone were to happen to use...
Given I've been on a little bit of an Emacs Lisp side quest, it's been a couple or so days since I made a release of BlogMore. Today's release comes after a feature request about draft posts. While support for marking posts as drafts, and including or excluding them from a build, is something that's been in BlogMore...
Some time in the late 1990s, after I'd been using GNU Emacs for a few years1, I grabbed a copy of Writing GNU Emacs Extensions. While I'd obviously created and added to and tinkered with my ~/.emacs some, I'd never written any non-trivial code. I feel it was around 1998 or 1999 that I really started to get into...
This bit of Emacs Lisp absolutely comes from a more innocent time on the Internet. Looking at it, it seems I wrote the first version, at least as a proper package, back in 2001. It's very possible that I carried a non-package version of it around as part of dp-lib.el1 for some time before, so it might date from the...
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