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2018-03-26

• 18:56 UTC (new) 2018-03-26 Human-readable filesizes . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few days ago I needed to display a filesize (in one of the next blog posts I’ll show why I needed this!). The easiest way is to just display the integer – size in bytes – but of course this is not very human-friendly. The “right” way should use whichever units fit the number.

2018-03-18

• 05:01 UTC (new) 2018-03-18 My Org-mode hydra . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I mentioned a lot of times that I am a big fan of Org-mode clocking feature. Even if I clock some things only for myself, I find it useful to learn how much time I actually need for some task. This is often surprising – for example, I think most people are completely unaware of how much you can accomplish by spending five to ten minutes every day on something (notice the “every day” part!). Of course, I want my clocking to be as smooth as possible.
• 04:59 UTC (diff) Comments on 2018-03-10 A tip on yanking . . . . Marcin Borkowski – That's interesting. I don't use helm, but a quick search shows that Ivy has something similar. I'll try it out!

2018-03-10

• 21:46 UTC (new) Comments on 2018-03-10 A tip on yanking . . . . deusmax – Helm has built-in support for browsing the kill-ring when helm-mode is enabled. Even better, bind M-y to helm-show-kill-ring, see . . .
• 05:14 UTC (new) 2018-03-10 A tip on yanking . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I have a few longer posts in the works, but for today I want to share a simple trick. We Emacs users all know and love the kill ring, and many of us know about M-y (yank-pop) and even C-u ... C-y (i.e., a numeric argment to yank). For those who don’t know: C-u 1 C-y is equivalent to plain C-y, but C-u 2 C-y (or just C-2 C-y) inserts the previous killed text (much like C-y M-y), and also marks it as the current one. With higher arguments, it inserts earlier kills.

2018-03-03

• 07:18 UTC (new) 2018-03-03 pdf-annot-print-annotation-functions and Windows newlines . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wrote about how I use Andreas Politz’s excellent pdf-tools to work with annotated pdfs. I still think this is great, but there was one thing that annoyed me a lot. Multiline annotations made on Windows (I guess) displayed with ^M in place of newlines. That is unfortunate, and I sometimes manually changed them to ^J (i.e., newlines). It dawned upon me, however, that being a programmer, I should be able to do something better about it.
• 07:15 UTC (diff) Comments on 2018-02-12 append-next-kill . . . . Marcin Borkowski – @Kurvivor: how about a good old {{{C-g}}}?
• 07:14 UTC (diff) Comments on 2018-02-12 append-next-kill . . . . Marcin Borkowski – @MathiasDahl: good point. It is so natural for me (since I use it so often) that I didn't even think about it.

2018-02-27

• 08:08 UTC (diff) Comments on 2018-02-12 append-next-kill . . . . Kurvivor – Is there command that does the opposite? As in, keep next kill separate from previous on kill-ring? I often want that as i am editing, when i want . . .

2018-02-25

• 07:13 UTC (new) 2018-02-25 Simple way of assigning formulas to fields and columns in Org tables . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today I’m going to share a simple trick concerning Org-mode spreadsheet tables. I knew that I could press C-u C-c = in an Org-mode table cell to install a formula in that cell (or C-c = to install a column formula). However, there is a simpler way: you can just type := followed by the formula and press TAB, RET or C-c C-c. (Without a colon, it installs a column formula.) Very handy! (And it was in the manual all along… Once more I learned that at least skimming through the manual from time to time is a good idea!)

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