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How to install Jed on Arch Linux

Most Linux distros have Jed in their repos. You should install Jed whenever you set up a new Linux system. Many Linux utilities that launch a terminal based editor will default to Jed if they find it. If not they usually stick you with icky-nasty vi. The “approved” way rather sucks. Arch based distros like Manjaro provide pamac. Arch wants everyone to do everything by themselves. First you have to find the package you want … How to install Jed on Arch LinuxRead more

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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5

Sometimes trying to avoid creating a Debian package is more work than actually creating the package. Before I got deep into coding modifications of Diamond I wanted to get a GUI GDB front end. Yes, I can use Emacs GDB interface and have, but I quasi-suck at the command line. Yes, I would get better over time, but I had used Gede before and it works rather nice. Besides, I’m currently helping on the family … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 5Read more

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XJed Looks

Since nobody voiced an objection, I wanted to record this here where the pictures would survive. Chris wrote on the jed mailing list that he applied the CBrief patch to create a pretty good Brief clone under Linux, the xjed display didn’t look right. Personally, I have horrible memories of Brief, but, I must admit, it did have fans back in the day. Back in the DOS and OS/2 days I was more a fan … XJed LooksRead more

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JED – golang support

I didn’t create this language support file. I’m told it even has a few minor issues. It’s just that attachments have a way of disappearing in the archives, so I’m pasting it here. % An attempt to create a Golang mode for jed. % Mostly gratefully stolen from pymode. % Feel free to improve. % % Authors: bukin.dima@gmail.com % % Caveats: % many :) $1 = “golang”; !if (keymap_p ($1)) make_keymap ($1); definekey (“golang_insert_char_indent(‘}’)”, “}”, … JED – golang supportRead more