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2017-10-02

  • 18:14 UTC (new) (history) 2017-10-02 Converting TeX sequences to Unicode characters . . . . Marcin Borkowski I quite often deal with LaTeX files using stuff like \'a or \"e, and I really prefer having those encoded in UTF-8. So the natural question arises: how to convert one into another? The problem is especially frustrating because Emacs can do this – either via C-x 8 prefix, or with the TeX input method. It is not trivial, however, to find out how it does these things, and to get hold of the data used to actually perform the conversion. (At least, I didn’t find a way to do it.) After a bit of searching, however, I came up with another solution. I’m hesitant to call it “clever”; it’s rather hackish, but hey, it works, so who cares.

2017-09-25

  • 04:30 UTC (new) (history) 2017-09-25 The Unconquered . . . . Marcin Borkowski As you probably have noticed, my blog has shifted towards being almost exclusively about technology in the past few years. This is not because I’m no longer interested in other subjects – it’s probably rather because it’s easier to write about technology. But I’d really like to change it a bit, and today I have a nice opportunity. It’s a rare thing when I write reviews of any kind here, but I’ll make an exception again.

2017-09-18

  • 04:47 UTC (new) (history) 2017-09-18 How to hide repeating entries from the Org agenda . . . . Marcin Borkowski For today, I only have a short tip I learned from the Org-mode mailing list recently. If you have a repeating task in your agenda, say every other day, and you show the agenda for, say, the next 15 days, it is quite annoying to see that task displayed for seven or eight days. You can now say (setq org-agenda-show-future-repeats nil) in your init file and see only one instance of this task. If you set it to 'next instead, you’ll see one more instance (which can be quite handy, I imagine). Cool!

2017-09-11

  • 09:40 UTC (new) (history) 2017-09-11 My email capturing workflow . . . . Marcin Borkowski I’m constantly fiddling with my email workflow. Those of you who are not professional procrastinators like me will probably never understand where the difficulty of answering a short email with a one-two sentence response may be a problem requiring a few days; those who are will probably nod their heads with the “been there, done that” gesture. And I guess many people will sympathize with me about the (sometimes quite important) emails lost forever down the “unread” list.

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