Ian Yepan

ianyepan.github.io

software engineer, emacs enthusiast, keyboard lover. occasionally nerdy.

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Emacs appearances in pop culture

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Thank you for the support, this blog post got featured on the front page of Hacker News (YCombinator).

Building an Intelligent Emacs

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This post introduces the combination of Emacs and LSP, and how you can make your own editor “smarter” by using the same idea of communications between an editor client and multiple language servers. Edit: Thank you for the support, this blog post got featured on the front page of Hacker News (YCombinator).