>Programming resources for Emacs Lisp, Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure: pastebin.com/nyTQp7qi
>Troubleshooting If there seems to be a bug (or complicated issue), anons may ask you to compose an MWE (minimum working example). To create an MWE, try the following: 1) start emacs with "emacs -q". This disables your init. 2) try to reproduce your issue with as few settings changed and packages (manually) loaded as possible. These steps ensure that other anons can replicate your problem if it's something more involved. Sometimes you even find the cause yourself this way, too!
Hello, I've posted it in the last thread. An user answered me but I didn't have the chance to answer. I'm not starting a war or want to talk about open vs closed sourced software.
I want to use Emacs and I've been watching some videos of RMS talking about free software. While I agree with a lot things he's talking about, I'm feeling conflicted about using Emacs for writing proprietary software. RMS wrote most of GNU Emacs, and since he considers closed source software unethical, wouldn't it extend for the use of Emacs? Or something has nothing to do with other? It feels like that RMS views on software are not the ones that GNU and FSF follows, is that right?
Jack King
I'll take the emacs pill only if there is syntax highlighting, good rust anf typescript support.
Nathaniel Gonzalez
I have good news for you
I think FSF's official stance is 'make your workflow as free as possible'. ideally all software would be free, but using free tools to create proprietary software is still better than using proprietary tools. it's free after all
Aaron Jenkins
I dunno about what RMS thinks but hear me out. Emacs is under GNU GPL 3,0 or later. I admit I haven't read this license, but BLENDER THE 3D EDITOR of all things is under the same license as said here github.com/blender/blender, and it's used freely for proprietary projects with no backfire afaik a fucking lot. So in your place I wouldn't care about making proprietary software with Emacs.
Ian Garcia
Scheme!
Benjamin Wood
>I have good news for you So which one do i install that has sane defaults and um pardon me "evil mode" with vim keybindings. Ive also heard conflicting reports on it being fast. It definitely is faster than vscode but how much faster is it.
Owen Watson
> So which one do i install GNU Emacs > "evil mode" Yeah just install it from ELPA > fast Emacs is single threaded and everything that blocks the UI kills it. Especially when it happens on key presses. Autocomplete is often an offender. On Linux it's OK for me, on Windows, unusable depending on the backend.
Chase Morales
however im runnin guile and wrote a wrong macro. it's returning # instead of a multiplied result of an altered expression (define-syntax switch-add-to-multiply (lambda (syntax-forms) (when (eq? (car (syntax->datum syntax-forms)) '+) #'(append! '(*) (cdr (syntax->datum syntax-forms)))))) (switch-add-to-multiply (+ 1 2 3 4))
what im doin wrong... i dont wanna match, match is convoluted af
Easton Reed
the syntax mentioned on the article linked by first user is very specific to racket. normal scheme syntax-rules doesn't work like that
Austin Reyes
here it is in standard syntax-rules: (define-syntax switch-add-to-multiply (syntax-rules (+) ((_ (+ e0 ...)) (* e0 ...)) ((_ (e0 ...)) (e0 ...))))
seriously? well, fuck that, i'll stick with define-macro.
Joshua Richardson
it's a choice between power and safety really. you never have to worry about escaping anything when using syntax-rules, but it doesn't allow any compile-time evaluation, just text replacement like a C macro. define-macro is more powerful but also more dangerous
Matthew Roberts
i get it user... the manual mentions hygiene a lot. my stuff doesn't need it - it's just messing with the order of elements in a passed form. but thanks. really.
Carson Perry
here's the ugly single-argument lisp version, done quickly and easily for comparison (define-macro (switch-add-to-multiply forms) (if (and (list? forms) (eq? (car forms) '+)) (append '() '(*) (cdr forms)) forms)) (switch-add-to-multiply (+ 2 4 6)) ;; 48 (switch-add-to-multiply (- 33 3)) ;; 30 (switch-add-to-multiply "no switching") ;; "no switching"
Colton Brown
my friend keeps trying to kill me on something called "4koder" or some shit like that, i briefly checked it out and it looks like abandonware exclusively shilled by some eceleb, has anyone ever heard of this?
