Today, I was going through my draft files on this blog and many of them where .html files exported from Blogger (where I previously hosted this blog). And I wanted to change them to markdown files with .md extension. I could obviously use my script to change extension of multiple files, but I thought, there should be a way to do this within emacs.

So I took a deep dive into Emacs documentation and the end result was this function:

Change file extension in Elisp

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(defun my/change-file-extension ()
    (interactive)
    (let* ((new-extension (read-from-minibuffer "Type the new extension including the dot (.): "))
           (new-file-name (concat (file-name-sans-extension buffer-file-name) new-extension))
           (filename (buffer-file-name)))
      (rename-file filename new-file-name t)
      (rename-buffer (concat (file-name-sans-extension (buffer-name)) new-extension))
      (set-visited-file-name new-file-name)
      (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
      (message (concat "File renamed to " new-file-name))))

The above function will ask the user for the new extension, and then rename the file, buffer and also set the visited file name to the filename with new extension.

And on my Spacemacs, I added this key-binding to that function. “o” is reserved for user defined functions in Spacemacs.

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(spacemacs/set-leader-keys "ofrx" 'my/change-file-extension)

If you know a better way of doing this, please feel free to add a comment. Any other suggestions welcome as well.

References

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Text-from-Minibuffer.html
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/File-Name-Components.html

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I recently came across an interesting problem/game called Game Of Life. A visual version of this is available here. Also, here is a beginners introduction to Game Of Life, or simply Life, written by Alex Bellos at Guardian.

It is a cellular automation problem created by John Horton Conway, a British mathematician in 1970, not a game you play to win or lose. This problem has a few rules that we need to follow.

Rules

1. A cell in the grid can be dead or alive.
2. A live cell with less than 2 live neighbours will die.
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5. A dead cell with exactly 3 neighbours will become alive.

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sudo /usr/local/bin/pip install airflow[s3, hive, python]