I’m not going to make the same mistake again as last time and try to provide an updated version in the old location… so, although there are only a few fixes, the current version has its own place on this page. Here’s the link to version 1.1.3: CR_ElectricEditing-1.1.3.zip

In this version, the checkbox that can switch on and off the whole plugin functionality should finally work correctly. A bug has also been fixed that occurred after an elect …

In a recent post, I announced a plugin that would bring a few features from nostalgic Emacs days to the modern world of Visual Studio 2003 and CodeRush. I received some feedback on that first version and now the Updated, Fixed and Obviously Much Better New Version™ is available. To start with, here’s the download link again, for the current version: CR_ElectricEditing-current.zip

If you need instructions to get the plugin installed, rev …

One thing I loved back in those days when I was using (X)Emacs as a development platform was the fantastic support for editing programming languages. Obviously, C and C++ were the programming languages everybody wanted to edit at the time, and Emacs had various editing modes for these languages. The culmination point was the arrival of CC Mode, but even before that the c mode and c++ mode for Emacs had features that were called “electric”. Years later, IDEs in the MS world have finally caught u …