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Python and emacs (6): (exuberant) tags and Python

2009.09.15 Tue 10:39 P GMT-07
Welcome to 80's style code navigation! Ctags is a program the analyzes code and creates an index (called a TAG file). Unlike a compiler that knows what's going on, the index makes best guesses (using advanced technology such as regexes). The basic
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Python and emacs: Articles

2009.08.28 Fri 10:13 P GMT-07
In an attempt to be more proficient at emacs, I've written some articles discussing my adventures. There seems to be confusing sources of information floating around on the intertubes regarding this subject. The most authoritative seems to be the P

[ANN] pycoverage.el

2009.08.27 Thu 11:55 P GMT-07
I thought it might be nice to have code coverage support for Python in emacs. So I started hacking pycoverage.el tonight. The beginnings of the project is on github. This is just a few hours of hacking, and is in a really nascent state. Right now

Python and emacs (5): pdb and emacs

2009.08.13 Thu 4:27 P GMT-07
pdb is an interactive debugger (much like gdb). Though I've heard that many prominent programmers only use print to debug, sometimes pdb is useful. (Besides that I'm coming to the realization that most production code shouldn't have print statement
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Python and emacs (4): Whitespace, tabs, tab-width, visualizing...

2009.04.09 Thu 11:41 A GMT-07
Whitespace! The bane of all aspiring python programmers! After their first day of python programming, it never seems to bother them. Until they get the dreaded file that uses tabs instead of more useful spaced indentations. (I've heard 6 is the n
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Python and emacs (3): (Balancing) parentheses and others

2009.03.10 Tue 12:54 P GMT-07
One nice feature of emacs is show-paren-mode. (Naming it show-paren-mode rather than paren-show-mode makes it somewhat less discoverable but I digress). This nice little feature allows one to make sure parens (or brackets or curly brackets) are in
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Python and emacs (2): Color themes

2009.03.09 Mon 10:18 A GMT-07
(Not really python specific) Emacs.reddit recently had two posts dealing with emacs color themes. Coincidentally, I had just installed color-theme last Friday and was playing around with it. I was getting sick of black on white. Sadly, I really di
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Python and emacs (1): Keyboard macros

2009.01.13 Tue 1:19 P GMT-07
I'll admit I'm mediocre at emacs. Which is kind of silly because other than a few years of eclipse use it's been my main editor for some 11 years. In an effort to help me start using features I don't normally use, I'm going to go over Jonathon's fe
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Ask Matt: Java, PHP or Python for beginning web development?

2008.03.06 Thu 4:33 P GMT-07
I recently received the email below. At the risk of starting a flame war, I'm posting my response here. Hi Matthew, Sorry to bug you, but I was reading your blog and was hoping you could help me with some advice. I am new to programming and can't q
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