Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2017-09-20 18:16 UTC up to 2017-12-19 18:16 UTC

2017-12-18

22:38 UTC (new) Comments on 2017-12-18 hierarchy.el . . . . Phil – Not entirely under the radar... https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2017-10/msg00676.html
16:38 UTC (new) 2017-12-18 hierarchy.el . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few months ago, Damien Cassou announced his hierarchy.el library. It looks like it went a bit under the radar in the Emacs community – I haven’t heard about it much since. That’s a pity, since it looks quite interesting.

2017-12-11

21:14 UTC (new) 2017-12-11 Funny places in fill.el . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago, I read parts of fill.el. This turned out to be rather a rewarding experience, in a rather warped sense. Let me quote a few highlights from that file.

2017-12-04

09:59 UTC (new) 2017-12-04 Embedding files in Org-mode . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few days ago, there was a question on the help-gnu-emacs mailing list about a way to embed an image in a text file. Of course, the OP was instantly pointed to Org-mode. However, this does not quite do what he wanted: while you can have attachments/links to images in Org, you then need two files instead of one. This being Emacs and Org-mode, there exists an (at least partial) solution.

2017-11-27

16:40 UTC (new) 2017-11-27 Org-mode radio targets . . . . Marcin Borkowski – One of the interesting features of Org-mode is hyperlinks. For some documents, having many internal links makes a lot of sense. One of these types is mathematical papers: you often want to refer to “Theorem 2.1” or “Definition 3” or “equation (5)”. LaTeX has that pretty much solved (even core LaTeX, and then there are packages to help, like cleveref). Org-mode does not improve a lot on that, but it’s usually enough anyway. But it’s not the topic of my post today.

2017-11-19

12:30 UTC (new) 2017-11-19 How to trip up yourself using Git . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Everyone and their mother seem to be using Git these days. And I have to admit that it is really a clever piece of code. However, sometimes it may not work like you want it to do. Let me share a personal story.

2017-11-15

2017-11-12

13:07 UTC (new) 2017-11-12 My email workflow – an addendum . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wrote about my email capturing workflow. After I’ve written that text, I noticed that my command does not work well when launched in message mode (as opposed to the headers view mode). I tried to debug this problem, but to no avail. Until yesterday.

2017-11-06

18:01 UTC (new) 2017-11-06 Keyboard macros and asynchronicity . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wanted to send a bunch of emails from mu4e. I had all the data in a csv file, so I figured out that I’ll just record a keyboard macro of myself sending the email and press f4 a few times. Well, it didn’t work.

2017-10-30

18:59 UTC (new) 2017-10-30 Pdf-tools and follow mode . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today I discovered an extremely cool feature of pdf-tools. Assume that you have a pdf file with annotations (that is, those funny yellow sticky-note-like thingies which show some text when hovered or clicked). Assume that they are done by the editor of a journal you work for, and you have to modify the source LaTeX file accordingly. (This is a rather specialized use, but I think the feature may have more applications.) My previous workflow involved using a mouse (actually, a touchpad, but I hate both with a passion). But there’s a much better way.

2017-10-23

19:26 UTC (new) 2017-10-23 Styles in TikZ . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Many TeX users learned to love the great TikZ package. I used to be a great fan of Metapost (even back in the good ol’ days of DOS), but when a friend told me about TikZ, I checked it out and instantly fell in love. No more external compilation, no more strange syntax, no more problems with labels etc. Yes, MP has its advantages, like the declarative way of solving linear equations or the Hobby algorithm for finding the nicest curve fitting to a set of points. And yes, with \write18 or LuaTeX (or just plain old makefiles), you don’t have to run a separate program to compile your MP diagrams. But I made my switch, and most of the time I’m really glad I did. There are a few things, however, which are a bit uncool with TikZ. One of them is that I find it notoriously difficult to define commands to draw repetitive things in my diagrams.

2017-10-16

16:19 UTC (new) 2017-10-16 emacs-reveal . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago, I learned from the Org-mode mailing list about a very interesting extension to the well-known org-reveal package. The emacs-reveal allows to embed audio files in reveal.js presentations. I find this quite fascinating, especially that I actually did prepare quite a few educational presentations.

2017-10-08

06:19 UTC (new) 2017-10-08 Me an minimalism in 2017 . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It’s been very interesting for me to read my post from previous year about Life, productivity, and faith. After almost a year my situation has changed a bit (although I’d prefer it to change more, in a sense), so I thought I’d like to share some of my views.

2017-10-02

18:14 UTC (new) 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) 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.