Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2019-11-19 03:59 UTC up to 2019-12-19 03:59 UTC

2019-12-16

21:56 UTC (new) (history) 2019-12-16 rot13 and other Caesar ciphers in Emacs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few days ago I saw a friend’s message on the Internet. The message looked like a bunch of random characters. Of course, I suspected a simple substitution cipher. What do I do?

2019-12-07

10:06 UTC (new) (history) 2019-12-07 Dollar-quoted strings in Bash . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As we all know, bash is a terrible but ubiquitous thing. Nowadays I usually avoid writing bash scripts as much as I can – but sometimes I really need to do something bash-y, for instance in the command line. One thing I encountered some time ago is putting newlines into bash strings, e.g. in parameters. My use case was that I wanted to make a Git commit from command line with a multiline commit message.

2019-12-01

22:00 UTC (new) (history) 2019-12-01 A simple trick with selecting rows created today . . . . Marcin Borkowski – For today, I only have a short but useful (at least for me) trick. When I test some new feature involving saving something to the database (PostgreSQL in my case), I often want to see what was actually written into the database. For that purpose, the best query is a short one.
21:58 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2019-11-04 Starting Emacs with custom configuration directory . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Wow, thanks! I'll definitely look into this!

2019-11-25

20:41 UTC (new) (history) 2019-11-25 Using inotifywait to generate files on the fly . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Sometimes I want to edit some file which is then transformed to some kind of “target” format, suitable for watching. It might be a LaTeX file, a Markdown file converted to HTML, or a HTML file converted to PDF (as it was the case for me some time ago).

2019-11-20

17:56 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2019-11-11 Diffing buffer fragments . . . . Mat tPrice – Interestingly, at least on my system, if `select-enable-primary` is set to t, this command will fail when used as described because `kill-ring-save` . . .