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2015-01-04

• 02:03 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-03 New Emacs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – “Breaking” news;-): long after everybody else, I decided to upgrade my Emacs. I started by cloning the Emacs Git repository (in fact, to save download time I did a shallow clone only). I also installed the dependencies needed to compile Emacs (this was sudo apt-get build-dep emacs24 on Ubuntu). Then, I ran make, and that’s it! The only thing left was sudo make install, and everything was working! Well, almost everything.

2014-12-27

• 10:45 UTC (new) (history) 2014-12-27 Info dispatch . . . . Marcin Borkowski – There has been some talk about ditching (tex)info in favor of some new shiny thingy called Asciidoc. Like many other people, I hope RMS won’t agree to this craziness: info is one of the best things since sliced bread.

2014-12-20

• 15:16 UTC (new) (history) 2014-12-20 Grepping from within Emacs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It is a well-known fact that a hacker’s life without grep(1) would be rather terrible. It is extremely useful. It is a bit less known that a hacker’s life without Emacs is rather terrible. However, given two great tools, one wonders whether they could not be made to work together?

2014-12-13

• 10:42 UTC (new) (history) 2014-12-13 Escaping madness . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I was writing a part of my Org-edu-HTML tool, and needed to generate a piece of JavaScript declaring a string variable. The string is given by the user and as such is assumed to contain things like Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--

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