Erik Colson

• About: Financial use of Perl, Emacs and Objective-C

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• Commented on Automatic variable highlighting in vim
  weird that it didn't work for you... I'm on GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.19) of 2014-03-18 Also, highlight has a lot of more stuff than auto-highlight-symbol. So you might want to debug that, or at least file a bug...
• Commented on Automatic variable highlighting in vim
  which (indeed) is available in Emacs for some time now ;) install package 'highlight' add this to your .emacs file (require 'highlight) (setq hlt-auto-faces-flag 1) (setq highlight-symbol-idle-delay 1) (add-hook 'cperl-mode-hook 'highlight-symbol-mode)...
• Commented on Perl::QA Hackathon in Lyon - Day 1
  Hi, Would you mind adding a link to the dist.ini that Ricardo cleaned up ?...
• Commented on Better late than never - Perl School is awesome!
  Sounds amazing stuff. Are these recorded and distributed ?...
• Posted Sometimes a good talk is enough to motivate to Erik Colson

  I've been reading a lot about Perl 5, 6, 7, 2013 etc. I felt, well, like if Perl is going bad... Then I watched this talk today:

  The Perl Renaissance

  Congrats to @pjf for this amazing talk! Wow…

• Commented on Perl 7
  Why not leave the '20' out of '2013' and make it Perl 13 etc ?...
• Posted About the 'Mastering Advanced Git' video series of McCullough and Berglund to Erik Colson

  This review is the conclusion of 2 rewrites. Today I'm still uncertain
  

  Definitely, the video series is a course. And it does hook up onto the
  "Mastering Git" video series from the same authors. Content is rich,
  very rich. Most of d…

• Commented on How Perl Documentation Could Look Like
  hi you mentioned generating a PDF (or other ebook format). I've looked @ the site but didn't find a link to such a doc. Is this something planned ? -- erik...
• Posted Perl at Fosdem 2012 to Erik Colson

  Hi,

  Next Sunday (5 february), Fosdem 2012 is hosting our Perl booth and Perl devroom. We welcome a bunch of impressive speakers. The schedule is published here.

  If you are coming to Fosdem but did not select talks fro…

• Posted FOSDEM 2012 - Brussels to Erik Colson

  Hello,

  Fosdem 2012 will take place on 4 and 5 February.
  You'll find our call for speakers here: Fosdem 2012 call for speakers

  Hope to meet you there !

  --
  erik

• Posted Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 - Thank you all to Erik Colson

  So we had the Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 last Saturday.

  I wish to thank all participants for the conviviality of the event. We had a bunch of interesting interactive talks, which where well prepared by the speakers.

  Including the gurus who shared their knowledge, the audience was p…

• Commented on Belgian Perl Workshop 2011
  Well this is really odd ! It works for me on Safari and Firefox 3.6.19. Anyone can confirm or explain this ?...
• Commented on Belgian Perl Workshop 2011
  Yes we know... No excuse for us...
• Commented on Belgian Perl Workshop 2011
  please tell me which link you used. I tested both links I mentioned without getting 404......
• Posted Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 to Erik Colson

  Hello fellow perl programmers!

  Please note that the Belgian Perl Workshop 2011 will take place at "The Hub" in Brussels (http://brussels.the-hub.net/public/) on Saturday 15 October.

  We are quite late on schedule. So please register …

• Commented on review: O'Reilly video "McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git"
  Mike, I didn't mention this in the review, but the 'students' in the video also have a SVN background....
• Posted review: O'Reilly video "McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git" to Erik Colson

  This is the first O'Reilly video I downloaded. Technically this course noise nor bad images. O'Reilly did a great job at mixing the video with full-screen laptop screen and the room.

  By downloading the course you'll get mor…

• Posted Finance::QuoteDB 0.15 released to Erik Colson

  Please note that I have released Finance::QuoteDB 0.15 to CPAN.

  Finance::QuoteDB is meant as a fullblown database application for
  maintaining stock data. It allows anyone to easily create and update a
  stock database. The information is gathered by using Finance::Quote
  and…

• Posted Emacs frames are no more evil ! to Erik Colson

  I'm an Emacs user for years now. I never used frames because "frames are evil".
  

  Framemove is easy to install. Get it from the emacswiki site and add following lines in .emacs :

  (require 'framemove)
  (framemove-default-keybindings)

  …

• Commented on DateTime and Excel difference
  wow, didn't know that... my immediate reaction : why the hell copy a bug while they could as well put the correction in the import and export procedures ?...
• Posted DateTime and Excel difference to Erik Colson

  Seems that DateTime module thinks 29.2.1900 didn't exist while Excel 2008 does. Which one is correct ? Well DateTime is OpenSource while Excel is payware. Think payware would be correct ? nope, DateTime is !

  So the correct DateTime object for dates starting 1.3.1900 when using values from …

• Posted Carbon Emacs and Samba shares to Erik Colson

  Lastly I tried to access files on a Samba share (running on a Debian machine) from Carbon Emacs running on Snow Leopard. The files where in a git-repo, so vc-git tried to do his stuff. This made Carbon Emacs hang while creating .#file.pm linked files. flymake had the same issue.…

• Posted Template Toolkit and Emacs to Erik Colson

  I am messing around with Template::Toolkit. Found the Emacs mode for template toolkit written by Dave Cross : https://github.com/davorg/tt-mode

  Put the file tt-mode.el somewhere in your Emacs path and add these lines to your .emacs config file:

  ;; tt-mode
  (lo…

• Posted New blog to Erik Colson

  Hello,

  Once in a while I have something to tell about Perl and me. I used my very own server for years and sometimes I even used use.perl. Since the shutdown of the blogging interface at use.perl it seems that most bloggers moved to blogs.perl.

  So this is my turn to move ;)

Comment Threads

• Steven Haryanto commented on Automatic variable highlighting in vim

  Tried highlight.el but it didn't work for me (I'm on Debian Stable 7.5, Emacs 23.4.1).

  What works is:

  (load "~/.emacs.d/auto-highlight-symbol")
  (add-hook 'cperl-mode-hook 'auto-highlight-symbol-mode)
  (setq ahs-idle-interval 0.35)

  The .el files are at https://github.com/emacsmirror/auto-highlight-symbol

• Dmitry Karasik commented on Automatic variable highlighting in vim

  nice

• Steven Haryanto commented on Automatic variable highlighting in vim

  I'm still using auto-highlight-symbol-mode (instead of highlight). And am wondering if I can get Emacs to switch between highlighting %hash and all $hash{foo}, or just highlighting a specific $hash{foo}.

• naveedm9 commented on Automatic variable highlighting in vim

  Robin, Ultimatto, confuseAcat fixes the sigil negotiation and does it with much less and simpler code: https://blogs.perl.org/users/confuseacat/2014/05/automatic-variable-highlighting-in-vim-the-easy-way.html

• Tim Bunce commented on Automatic variable highlighting in vim

  Damian Conway has implemented a typically awesome plugin for automatic variable highlighting (and more):

  https://github.com/thoughtstream/Damian-Conway-s-Vim-Setup/blob/master/plugin/trackperlvars.vim