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2026-06-06

• 04:54 UTC (new) (history) 2026-06-06 Copying images in Emacs . . . . mbork – A few weeks ago I was on vacation. Of course I brought back quite a few pictures with me. When I got back, I sat to select some of them to make a gallery for my family and friends. I started with copying all pictures from two mobile phones and a camera to my laptop. Then I wanted to copy a few carefully chosen images to one directory. To my surprise, Emacs’ Image mode does not have a command to copy the currently viewed image to another directory.

2026-06-01

• 20:00 UTC (new) (history) 2026-06-01 My impressions with agentic coding . . . . mbork – For the past several months I’ve been experimenting with so-called “agentic coding”, that is, using LLMs to write software. I have to say that I’m quite impressed by the possibilities this opens – and at the same time, pretty annoyed by the limitations…

2026-05-25

• 19:25 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-25 Ignoring pdfs when auto-reverting files . . . . mbork – I quite like the global Auto Revert mode. It is especially useful when I something else than Emacs sometimes changes my files. (I bet some readers immediately thought about the now-fashionable agentic coding, but plain old git switch is enough!) It has one drawback, however. I hardly ever use TeX nowadays, but when I do, I use pdf-tools. Auto Revert mode doesn’t play nice with pdfs open in Emacs, often trying to revert them before TeX finishes writing to them, which results in ugly flickering.

2026-05-20

• 14:37 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2026-05-18 Marking today’s files in Dired . . . . 109.252.167.113 – The `dired-mark-if' `macro` also marks special lines (such as those specifying a directory path), so let's exclude such lines: (dired-mark-if (let . . .

2026-05-18

• 21:01 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-18 Marking today’s files in Dired . . . . mbork – As anyone reading my blog knows, I’m a big fan of Dired. One of its killer features is the set of marking commands, which allow marking files based on their extensions, names (regex-based), contents (also regex-based). There is also a “universal marking command”, dired-mark-sexp, which allows the user to provide an Elisp expression serving as a predicate and marks all files satisfying that predicate. What’s even more, you can use several symbols in that predicate, like size or name (head to the docs to learn more). What I found lacking is an easy (that is, not requiring me to type a convoluted expression each time) way to mark “recently modified” files.

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