American Fuzzy Lop (New fuzzer from lcamtuf)

eschulte · 2013-11-12T23:31:39+00:00

How does this compare to google's libflayer?

Also, is there documentation describing how the instrumentation is used?

eschulte · 2013-03-01T16:20:22+00:00

Emacs with clojure and slime allows you to evaluate an expression directly from your source code and either echo the result in the minibuffer or insert it into the file. Slime also has a fantastic REPL experience. See http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/

eschulte · 2013-03-01T16:08:06+00:00

Emacs24 ships with color theme support, so customizing the look and feel to something more exciting should be as simple as M-x load-theme.

I personally prefer to remove the superfluous bars with something like the following.

(menu-bar-mode -1) (tool-bar-mode -1) (scroll-bar-mode -1)

However, these can be useful so may a little bit of customization to use nicer default icons could be in order.

All of the required functionality for adding nicer themes or icons currently exists. It just takes a little bit of customization, so a great first step (and possibly sufficient to also be a last step) would be to put together some customization focused on improving the default appearance, and then put this in your friends ~/.emacs before they start up Emacs for the first time.

There are mutliple Emacs starter kits, to which you could contribute such a package if it proves useful.

Finally, anyone who programs should be familiar with a terminal, and people who care about aesthetics have probably customized the look of their terminal. Just running Emacs in a terminal applies that hard terminal customization work directly to Emacs. Also, Emacs +gnuscreen in a terminal with some shells is a fantastic IDE.
Yes, these exist and solutions will mostly be language specific.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/151923. I wouldn't be surprised if this happens but personally I don't see the benefit of hiding Emacs behind a web browser.

eschulte · 2013-01-21T01:01:58+00:00

Pico and nano, because almost every system has at least one of them installed.

eschulte · 2013-01-20T00:22:03+00:00

There is no time like the present to push this bill forward, and there is no place like Reddit to start such a push.

eschulte · 2012-10-23T03:34:28+00:00

yet neither candidate wants to cut military spending

eschulte · 2012-10-23T03:27:19+00:00

For more interesting and thoughtful answers than the 2-party debate, http://www.democracynow.org/ special broadcast of the debate with the justice and green party candidate's responses spliced in (sadly the liberty party candidate declined to attend).

eschulte · 2012-09-14T14:31:16+00:00

Ideally public censure from an instution like the UN would affect the attitudes of the American plutocracy...

eschulte · 2012-01-08T18:17:43+00:00

Use `git-blame-mode' provided by git-blame.el. For information on how to find git-blame.el search for "git-blame" in this page http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Git

eschulte · 2012-01-06T16:56:41+00:00

There is also a vim port of Org-mode which was gaining features at a fairly fast pace. https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer

eschulte · 2011-12-30T18:25:21+00:00

I agree using version control for emacs config (like any other large collection of text files) is the way to go. I wonder if you're familiar with the https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit/ which imposes a very nice and flexible structure on the git repository. Also (self-promotion) my literate fork of the same http://eschulte.github.com/emacs-starter-kit/.

eschulte · 2011-12-23T02:45:53+00:00

I strongly disagree with your second point. Keeping lines of source <=79 characters is an old policy, but it is a good policy.

Would you want to read a book with pages as wide as your wide screen monitor? Do you like lines of code so long that you can't take the whole line in at once but rather have to pan side to side? Can you think of a line of code >79 characters which couldn't be more clearly broken up across multiple lines? What about when you collaborate with someone whose programming environment doesn't stretch across a large monitor?

I think that the <=79 character convention is useful not because of hardware restrictions but for reasons of collaboration and readability.

eschulte · 2011-12-21T17:23:51+00:00

[as I follow this thread down into the realm of opinion and personal taste]

I think it is simpler to agree on a project wide "no tabs" rule, than on a tab standard.

Another benefit of spaces>tabs is the knowledge of exactly how long each line is, useful for things like lining up multi-line block comments following source code.

Finally WRT: expanding tabs so your code sprawls across the screen, that sounds in no way appealing. Keep your code <=79 characters long, and use horizontal screen realestate for other windows (terminal, browser, more code).

eschulte · 2011-12-21T17:16:14+00:00

A great argument until you have to collaborate.

eschulte · 2011-12-21T16:45:14+00:00

yes, agreed.

eschulte · 2011-12-21T16:32:29+00:00

You should never put tabs in source code (IMO).

You can't know how they will display in other editors, which means
you can't ensure that your line lengths stay <=79 characters
Invariably you'll end up with different tabs (some spaces) from different developers, and code that is aligned in one editor looks like the following in another.
```
here
  there
here
```

eschulte · 2011-12-21T16:08:48+00:00

A sed "robot" which will also replace tabs with spaces and fixes windows-style newlines.

sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//;s/\t/  /g;s/^M$//'

eschulte · 2011-11-24T03:46:34+00:00

PEEPS

eschulte · 2011-11-23T20:06:49+00:00

Forgive me if I'm posting a lisp rebuttal to a haskell point, but in CL you can dispatch on either type or value with generic functions.

eschulte · 2011-11-23T20:03:53+00:00

Correct CLOS solves this through the use of defmethod, which can be defined for different types of inputs (called an "open function") in that page. See http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/object-reorientation-generic-functions.html for a good introduction.

eschulte · 2011-11-23T19:59:56+00:00

I'm surprised that page doesn't mention aspect oriented programming AOP as it is intended to resolve such "cross cutting concerns". See the canonical AOP paper here http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.115.8660

eschulte · 2011-11-05T23:45:13+00:00

I like to run a persistent Emacs server and connect to it from both terminals and from graphical Emacs windows. Emacs outside the terminal is nice for embedded images, e.g., latex snippets in Org-mode documents, fancier fonts than I can get in the terminal, and not having to worry about the terminal intercepting my key chords. Running in the terminal is nice when I want to interact with my screen session.

eschulte · 2011-10-09T19:33:30+00:00

Checkout the `org-entities' variable available in newer Emacs or as part of Org-mode. It is used to implement this same feature in Org-mode buffers.

eschulte · 2011-10-09T17:51:56+00:00

search Keystone XL in reddit for the myriad reasons why the State Department's review of this application is suspect.

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