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2020-05-03

• 07:08 UTC (new) (history) 2020-05-03 Help in read-string . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Last week I wrote about making Emacs ask for parameters for lp when printing from pdf-tools. The only thing missing was some kind of help for lp, which is far from intuitive. I figured that it would be best if I could somehow make read-string display some help string when some key was pressed, even in the midst of editing in the minibuffer. (Preferably, the key would be C-h, which is Emacs’ default for “help”.) And guess what? This is Emacs. Not only is such a feature possible, it is actually built-in!

2020-04-27

• 09:39 UTC (new) (history) 2020-04-27 Printing from pdf-tools . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I studied the command-line interface to CUPS. Of course, my goal from the beginning was to use Emacs, not the terminal. It turns out that setting the default printer using lpoptions is not enough for pdf-misc-print-document (bound to C-c C-p in pdf-tools) to work. This command tries first to locate one of three tools for command-line printing: gtklp, xpp and gpr. Frankly, I’ve never heard about any of them, and I just wanted to use lp. This is easy to accomplish – you just need to set the variable pdf-misc-print-programm (sic!) to "lp" and you’re good to go. However, what about my 2-up printing?

2020-04-18

• 12:06 UTC (new) (history) 2020-04-18 The main line of history of some branch . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago, it occurred to me that it would be cool to be able to see the history of some branch of my Git repository – say, develop – but filtered so that I could only see the commits done directly on develop (which do not happen very often) and merge commits indicating that some feature got merged into develop, but without the individual commits. This could then serve as a poor man’s changelog - a list of features committed to develop since e.g. last tagged version.

2020-04-12

• 07:32 UTC (new) (history) 2020-04-12 Easter 2020 . . . . Marcin Borkowski – According to the tradition of my blog, I wish everyone reading this Happy Easter. May the Christ Risen give you His graces every day, and I wish you deep faith in Him. Do not forget that He is stronger than economic crises and physical or mental illnesses. This is no surprise, since He is in fact stronger than something much more serious than that – He defeated all our sins combined. In other words, we have all the right reasons to sing with joy, even if there are also some reasons to cry. As usual, I am going to offer a decade of the Holy Rosary for all my readers. God bless you all!

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