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How about pushing for browsers to allow for the same functionality browser wide? And, yes, I am still bitter about firefox killing vimperator.

I miss vimperator :(

The main reason i am not moving to something more trendy are kbd macros and the fact that emacs is designed to be equal parts runtime and editor. I think that for most purposes ema…

Good to know about ed! Since noone else has mentioned this, emacs' keyboard macros seem much easier to me especially since more than the basic editing stuff off awk/ed/sed i can le…

Typeclasses and parametric types are there to leverage the typesystem. It's hard to see how you can benefit from these abstractions if all you have is ducktyping.

I almost regretted asking since google answered my question in seconds, but the destructor thing would never have occured to me.

I wonder what the state of tail call optimization is in mainstream c++ compilers these days.

I don't think the author claims they found something groundbreakingly new. In fact just the references contain all the points Liam makes. Patches-vector seems to be different to ot…

I assumed that `Int` was the sequence index of the Edit, not the line number. The line position, which is not necessarily the line number, it might be contextual, is encoded in `a`…

Great article! thank you. Shame you do printfs though, it looks like you guys have done some pretty awesome work with putting GDB on steroids: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wi…

I see your point about the larger fonts but I have used the sunburn theme for a while in my editor (not anymore thought in favor of slightly customized naquadah[1] ) and I feel qui…

You are right I should have clarify that. thank you