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2015-01-17

• 23:28 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-17 A quick-and-dirty hack with a dollar sign . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I sometimes yank some fragments of text into my LaTeX files. This creates some problems, which can be more or less easily solved by query-replace and friends. The real problem is with math formulae. In general, anyone expecting that copying a formula from a pdf and yanking it into a LaTeX file will Just Work™, will be seriously disappointed. Converting such yanked formulae to correct LaTeX syntax is a painful process. One can, however, use Emacs to ease the pain a bit.

2015-01-16

• 16:23 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2015-01-10 A few random Emacs tips . . . . SJSHunter – And for item 5, you can shorten this into (defalias 'cal 'calendar) and as a bonus, cal will inherit the docstring from calendar (with a . . .

2015-01-10

• 22:59 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-10 A few random Emacs tips . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I’ve quite busy recently, so instead of a full-blown post I’ll share just a few random Emacs tips. Hopefully someone will find them useful.

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.

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