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2022-07-11

• 14:05 UTC (new) (history) 2022-07-11 A poor man's Emacs - Jira integration . . . . mbork – I use Jira at work. (I know, I know. Actually it’s not that bad – at least it’s much better than Asana.) Of course, I also copy all my tasks to Emacs to clock them using Org-mode. A few days ago a teammate, seeing my Org file with all the Jira tasks, asked me how I pull them from Jira to Org. A bit embarassed, I told him that I’ve been just creating a new headline, typing the task id (like LT-1337) and copying the task title from Jira. This is not as bad as it sounds since it happen very rarely – say, once or twice per day, so automating this doesn’t really pay off. Still, it would be nice. So, I set out to do exactly that.

2022-07-02

• 19:30 UTC (new) (history) 2022-07-02 Paying my bills with Emacs . . . . mbork – I use Emacs to pay my bills. Literally. I mean, I use it in my day job, obviously, but it’s not what I’m talking about today. In Poland, the most often used way to pay bills like electicity, phone, internet etc. is via bank transfers. To make a transfer you need to type at least the account number of the person or company you transfer money to, the description of the transaction and (obviously) the amount you need to pay. To simplify things, I defined a few recurring recipients in my bank system so that I only need to choose the recipient and type in the invoice number (as the description) and the amount. Still, this is a bit cumbersome. And this is where Emacs can come in.

2022-06-24

• 19:31 UTC (new) (history) 2022-06-24 A great day for life . . . . mbork – God bless America!!!

2022-06-20

• 17:55 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2022-06-13 Highlighting and de-highlighting things . . . . mbork – Thanks, I never saw this! Looks interesting, though [[2016-02-20 Iedit mode|Iedit]] seems to have much of its functionality.
• 17:53 UTC (new) (history) 2022-06-20 Copying the current location . . . . mbork – Continuing the trend of playing around with copying stuff from Emacs to the system clipboard, today I’d like to talk about a command I wrote a few days ago.

2022-06-13

• 19:14 UTC (new) (history) 2022-06-13 Highlighting and de-highlighting things . . . . mbork – From time to time I want to perform a kind-of “human search” on a file. For example, there is some keyword – or maybe something describable by a regex – and I want to be able to easily spot all of its occurrences in some file. For some reason, isearch or Swiper won’t work for me. (This may happen if, for instance, I don’t exactly know what I’m looking for. Imagine going through some file and deciding to search for some keywords only when I actually see them for the first time. So, I’m skimming a buffer and once I see the word “banana”, I go “hey, bananas are good, let’s find more of them” and then I want to easily see every line containing the word “banana”. Skimming further, I can see the word “apple” and I suddenly have a craving for apples, so I want to add apples to things that should be easily seen. And so on.) It turns out that Emacs has a few commands which can help with that.

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