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2018-10-15

• 01:51 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2018-10-14 Magit and C-u i . . . . 166.216.165.31 – s/One grip/One gripe/ Please fix and then delete this comment :)

2018-10-14

• 17:59 UTC (new) (history) 2018-10-14 Magit and C-u i . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Last time I mentioned that I use multiple backup copies of my .env file. One problem with that approach was they they cluttered my Git status (or the magit-status window). I could put the relevant pattern in my .gitignore file, but I didn’t want to bother other programmers in the team with peculiarities of my personal setup.

2018-10-06

• 06:24 UTC (new) (history) 2018-10-06 The version-control variable . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As many of us know, Emacs has a habit (annoying for most people, I guess) of making backup copies of files it saves. Happily, it doesn’t kick in in version-controlled files (and most of my files fall into this category nowadays). But there are situations when I actually do want the backup copies.

2018-09-30

• 06:59 UTC (new) (history) 2018-09-30 add-dir-local-variable - conclusion . . . . Marcin Borkowski – In the last two posts, I wrote about Emacs directory variables. Last week, the conclusion was that there is no easy way for add-dir-local-variable to use the dotted pair notation in the .dir-locals.el file. Well, I was wrong again.
• 06:57 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2018-09-23 add-dir-local-variable and dotted pairs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Thanks, this is really great!

2018-09-23

• 04:50 UTC (new) (history) 2018-09-23 add-dir-local-variable and dotted pairs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Last time I wrote about directory variables. I mentioned that the eval keyword apparently didn’t work with them. Well, I was very wrong, and my mistake was a popular one. Since it is easy to fall for it, I decided to warn here about the pitfall.
• 04:23 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2018-09-17 Emacs directory variables . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Thanks, this is really interesting, although seems a low-level hack.
• 04:19 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2018-08-13 A tip on git stash . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Wow, I had no idea! Thanks so much!!!

2018-09-17

• 08:18 UTC (new) (history) 2018-09-17 Emacs directory variables . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Many people know and use Emacs file variables. I think less people know about a similar concept of directory variables.

2018-09-10

• 07:56 UTC (new) (history) 2018-09-10 Persisting Emacs variables . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I coded a certain Elisp tool (for internal use at Wiadomości Matematyczne) and I needed to preserve the value of some variable between Emacs sessions. I asked how to do this on the Emacs mailing list, and I received a whole lot of very interesting and worthwhile responses.

2018-09-03

• 17:09 UTC (new) (history) 2018-09-03 Emacs obsolete commands . . . . Marcin Borkowski – In one of my previous posts I mentioned that the Info-edit command is obsolete. You might be wondering what that means exactly. (I was, for sure.) Well, here’s the story.

2018-08-27

• 19:34 UTC (new) (history) 2018-08-27 Whitespace in Emacs regexen . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wanted to search for a sequence of two words in a buffer. Normally I’d search for lorem<space>ipsum, but what if there is a newline between them? Or a non-breaking space? Or a tab?

2018-08-18

• 04:24 UTC (new) (history) 2018-08-18 Embedding files in Org-mode revisited . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I published a snippet of Elisp code to embed arbitrary files in Org-mode files using Base64 encoding. I was recently asked if it was possible to view this image.

2018-08-13

• 16:20 UTC (new) (history) 2018-08-13 A tip on git stash . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I don’t know about you, but I use git stash fairly often. (This might be just a bad habit, and committing might be a better idea, but I do find stashing useful, especially for minor changes I’d like to apply from time to time on different branches but never commit. Yes, console.log and friends, I’m looking at you, but also at turning on various “debug” variables.) After some time, git stash list begins to look like this

2018-08-06

• 19:59 UTC (new) (history) 2018-08-06 Editing past Git commits . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Everybody and their mother are now writing Git tutorials of various kinds, so I decided to jump on the bandwagon and do my own just like the thousands that already exist. Just kidding. My one will be different.

2018-07-29

• 12:45 UTC (new) (history) 2018-07-29 2018-07-29 The INSIDE EMACS variable . . . . Marcin Borkowski – While researching stuff connected with Eshell and shells in Emacs in general, I encountered an interesting bit of information. It doesn’t seem to be useful for me personally, since I seldom use M-x shell or M-x term, prefering Eshell instead, but maybe someone may find a use for it. When you run a script/command from one of those Emacs non-elisp shells, the environment variable INSIDE_EMACS is set to a nonempty value so that scripts can recognize that they run inside Emacs.

2018-07-23

• 03:58 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2008-10-13 Alkohol . . . . Marcin Borkowski – No, ale to ani trochę się ne wyklucza z tym, co napisałem (prawie dziesięć lat temu, ale chyba nadal mogę się pod tym podpisać). Nadal utrzymuję, że . . .
• 03:44 UTC (new) (history) 2018-07-23 Handlebars inline and block helpers . . . . Marcin Borkowski – In a project I’m involved in, we use a templating library called Handlebars.js. It is quite nice, and has a slightly less nice documentation. Since I’ve spent a considerable amount of time recently digging through the Internet to find some information on the so-called helpers, I thought I’ll share it here. Expect a series of (not necessarily consecutive) blog posts about Handlebars!

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