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2016-01-30

• 22:17 UTC (new) (history) 2016-01-30 Dimming out tildes in AUCTeX . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I often write LaTeX in Emacs with AUCTeX. One thing I use a lot is tildes (these little ~ signs, which for LaTeX mean “unbreakable space”). [...] The problem with tildes is that they don’t look like spaces, and if you use them a lot, it becomes a bit more difficult to actually read the LaTeX source.

2016-01-23

• 23:26 UTC (new) (history) 2016-01-23 Personal Information Managers – a rant . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I had this weird experience. A friend of mine wrote on some social media site that his daughter was born that day, and he asked (semi-jokingly, I guess) for wishes next year, for her first birthday. Of course, I immediately put the date into Org-mode, and promptly forgot about it...

2016-01-17

• 09:51 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2016-01-16 save-excursion changed semantics . . . . Skywalker – Aww... There was some heated discussion on the emacs-devel mailing list about this change... Basically the emacs maintainer thought that this was an . . .

2016-01-16

• 21:33 UTC (new) (history) 2016-01-16 save-excursion changed semantics . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Recently, when coding on a new Emacs (compiled from source), I stumbled upon a strange behavior of save-excursion: it didn’t restore the mark status. I was quite sure that it should do that, but – for lack of better ideas – I C-h f‘d it. And here is what I learned...

2016-01-09

• 12:59 UTC (new) (history) 2016-01-09 mrr-auto-replace . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It is often the case that I need to do some heavy search-and-replace in LaTeX files. Usually, this is when I get a file from someone else, and the person who wrote it does not know LaTeX very well. Fortunately, the errors in such files are usually quite predictable and repeatable.

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