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2021-02-27

• 09:44 UTC (new) (history) 2021-02-27 Visible bell in Emacs . . . . mbork – Emacs has this habit of beeping when something goes wrong (or when the user presses C-g). Frankly, this is quite useful, since it is an instant feedback, but there are times when I don’t want that behavior.

2021-02-23

• 17:28 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2021-02-20 Using keyboard macros to emulate query replace . . . . mbork – Thanks!

2021-02-20

• 09:00 UTC (new) (history) 2021-02-20 Using keyboard macros to emulate query replace . . . . mbork – A few days ago, however, I needed to do something I consider really blogworthy, even though the tip I’m going to share today is (surprise, surprise!) very Emacs-centric. I was editing a paper which used italics (with the \emph LaTeX macro) really a lot (more than 100 times). Very many (but not all) of its occurrences were to be changed to quotes, so that e.g. \emph{petrichor} should be changed to ,,petrichor’’ etc.

2021-02-13

• 15:44 UTC (new) (history) 2021-02-13 Copying to clipboard with single spaces . . . . mbork – I sometimes need to transfer some text from Emacs to another program, like a web broswer or terminal. A few weeks ago I thought that it would be nice if I could somehow transform that text – mu use-case is changing double spaces (which I habitually put after every sentence, so that I can use Emacs’ sentence-aware commands) to single spaces (which is what most people expect, and some people treat as the only correct option).

2021-02-06

• 18:38 UTC (new) (history) 2021-02-06 Unignoring some files by ripgrep . . . . mbork – I use the famous ripgrep tool a lot. Recently, I encountered the following problem. I had some .gitignore​d files in a repository, but I wanted to include them in rg searches.
• 18:36 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2020-11-01 The situation in Poland . . . . mbork – 1. I considered deleting the comment above, but after short consideration decided against it, since I decided it may be better to reply to it . . .

2021-02-01

• 10:07 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2021-01-25 Generating consecutive dates in Unix shell . . . . Anonymous – You don't need the grep, just use the output formatting in date: for d in `seq 0 7 36`; do date -d "2020-01-05 $d days" +"%A%t%d-%m-%Y"; done . . .
• 08:06 UTC (new) (history) 2021-02-01 Copying symlink targets in Dired . . . . mbork – I have a short but pretty useful tip today for everyone who uses Dired as their main file manager (which I do, of course). When copying symlinks using dired-do-copy (bound to C by default), Dired copies them as symlinks. Giving a prefix argument of C-u makes dired-do-copy dereference the symlink first.

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