Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2019-11-30 11:00 UTC up to 2019-12-30 11:00 UTC

2019-12-24

14:14 UTC (new) 2019-12-24 Christmas 2019 . . . . Marcin Borkowski – So, it’s Christmas Eve again! Thanks be to God for His mercy and coming to us as the Child! This year, I have special reasons to be thankful, since my family got through a difficult time of serious illness of one of us. I am sure every one of my readers has something to thank for – don’t hesitate to kneel before God the Almighty, his Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and thank! As usual, my Christmas present to all my readers is a decade of Rosary for you.

2019-12-23

15:01 UTC (new) 2019-12-23 Counting sentences in emails . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wrote about sentence counting in Emacs buffers (or regions). I promised a sequel, and here it is. The real reason to count sentences is that I wanted to be able to automatically put a signature in my email referring to one of the http://sentenc.es/ webpages. It turns out, however, that counting sentences in email messages is much more difficult than it seems.

2019-12-16

21:56 UTC (new) 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) 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) 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) Comments on 2019-11-04 Starting Emacs with custom configuration directory . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Wow, thanks! I'll definitely look into this!

2019-11-30

20:24 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-11-04 Starting Emacs with custom configuration directory . . . . alphapapa – Hi Marcin, With a bit of scripting, it's easy to set the user-emacs-directory at runtime, before any packages are loaded, which avoids having to . . .