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2018-10-22

• 11:48 UTC (new) (history) 2018-10-22 Running visual commands in Eshell . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It is a known thing that running commands that control the terminal like top in Eshell is problematic – Eshell plays well with commands that take stdin in and put stdout out, but any control codes are just displayed verbatim. Happily, there is a way around it.
• 11:47 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2018-10-14 Magit and C-u i . . . . Marcin Borkowski – delete comment per request (minor)
• 11:47 UTC (diff) (history) 2018-10-14 Magit and C-u i . . . . Marcin Borkowski – fix a typo (minor)

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

• 18:31 UTC (diff) (history) 2018-09-23 add-dir-local-variable and dotted pairs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – fix a typo (minor)
• 04:50 UTC (diff) (history) 2018-09-17 Emacs directory variables . . . . Marcin Borkowski – link to the follow-up (minor)
• 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.
• 04:21 UTC (diff) (history) 2018-08-13 A tip on git stash . . . . Marcin Borkowski – +comment about comment (minor)
• 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!!!

2018-09-10

• 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.

2018-08-06

• 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.

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