emacs cheatsheet

2020-10-02

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~5 min read

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824 words

A course I’m taking strongly encourages the use of emacs, so I now have an opportunity to learn that along with vim! I suspect I will never…

emacs: remapping the meta key

2020-10-01

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~2 min read

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247 words

I recently started using Emacs on my mac and one of the things that was bothering me immediately was the Meta key. By default, meta is…

regex: untracked capture groups

2020-09-30

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~3 min read

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405 words

When I write regular expressions, I often find myself grouping logic between parenthesis. The issue is that these groups are remembered and…

regex: javascript global flag

2020-09-29

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~2 min read

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235 words

Recently I wrote about my regular expression prowess with figuring out a pattern to match on markdown links. When I went to implement it…

regex: grouping matches

2020-09-28

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~2 min read

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313 words

As regular expressions get longer and more complicated capture groups can be nice to organize the different pieces of a match. For example…

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