Rails Authentication Plugins

Jul 30th, 2011 • Permalink

Considering which authentication plugin to use for rails? I have some recommendations.

Learn Emacs: Use Defadvice to Modify Functions

Jun 22nd, 2011 • Permalink

I use defadvice to change the behavior of zap-to-char. In it’s original form, zap-to-char deletes all characters up to and including the matching character. I prefer it to behave more like zap-up-to-but-not-including-char. It’s more intuitive to me.

;; make zap-to-char act like zap-up-to-char (defadvice zap-to-char (after my-zap-to-char-advice (arg char) activate) "Kill up to the ARG'th occurence of CHAR, and leave CHAR. The CHAR is replaced and the point is put before CHAR." (insert char) (forward-char -1))

Learn Emacs: Delete-file-and-buffer

Jun 21st, 2011 • Permalink

From my ~/.emacs.d

(defun delete-file-and-buffer () "Deletes the current file and buffer, assumes file exists" (interactive) (delete-file buffer-file-name) (kill-buffer (buffer-name)))