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2019-02-24

• 07:17 UTC (new) (history) 2019-02-24 Transferring strings to a phone via QR codes . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Sometimes I need to transfer some text (a link, a short note or something else) from my computer to my phone. A usual way is to send it via some cloud-based service – but I don’t really like it, since there is no such thing as cloud – only other people’s computers. While I am not rigorously opposed to such an idea, I do not like putting my personal stuff on somebody else’s machine without any good reason. Another way is to email the thing – but I do not have an email client configured on my phone, and I really want it to stay that way. (I consider email to be a crucial part of my privacy/security. Having it on my phone puts me at significant risk – phones like to be stolen or lost, for instance.) A few days ago, an idea of using QR codes came to my mind.

2019-02-21

• 07:01 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2019-02-17 Inserting the current file name at point . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Thanks, that is nice! Are you aware that after saying {{{!}}} in Dired you can use {{{?}}} and {{{*}}} in the command?

2019-02-17

• 07:08 UTC (new) (history) 2019-02-17 Inserting the current file name at point . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It is not uncommon to issue some command to Emacs and find oneself in the minibuffer with the need to insert the name of the current file. A typical example would be firing M-! (shell-command) and realizing that we need to gice the name of the currently visited file as the argument to some command.
• 07:02 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2019-02-10 Making recover-this-file messages more prominent . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Hi, and thanks! I corrected your formatting. Notice that your approach is going to show all the recover messages in {{{*Messages*}}} every time . . .

2019-02-10

• 11:26 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2019-02-04 A simple template mechanism in Elisp . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Wow, thanks to both of you! I didn't know about either. {{{s-format}}} looks really nice, and its from Magnar Sveen, so it's good quality (and more . . .
• 08:21 UTC (new) (history) 2019-02-10 Making recover-this-file messages more prominent . . . . Marcin Borkowski – When I start my Emacs, I visit all my agenda files automatically (of course, I set up the org-agenda-files variable first). This has an annoying side effect.

2019-02-04

• 04:46 UTC (new) (history) 2019-02-04 A simple template mechanism in Elisp . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A long time ago I asked on the Emacs mailing list about a templating mechanism for Emacs Lisp. Of course, there is format. However, I don’t like it as a template engine, since the entries are identified by their order and not names. Then, there is YASnippet and skeleton.el, but they are (probably) better suited for interactive use. (At least Yasnippet can be used programmatically, but it seemed to be too complicated for my needs anyway back then.) Some people suggested other solutions, none of which really appealed to me. So, I set out to write my own.

2019-01-28

• 18:30 UTC (new) (history) 2019-01-28 A simple tip with killing and yanking code . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I often kill (cut) some code and then yank (paste) it somewhere else. Often the level of indentation is wrong in the new place (for instance, something is put from a higher level into a then-branch of a conditional).

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