Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2016-09-18 23:53 UTC up to 2016-10-18 23:53 UTC

2016-10-17

20:09 UTC (new) (history) 2016-10-17 reposition-window . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Did you know that you can press C-M-l to invoke the command reposition-window? Here’s an excerpt from its docstring: Make the current definition and/or comment visible. Further invocations move it to the top of the window or toggle the visibility of comments that precede it.

2016-10-10

23:43 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2016-10-10 Fast font changes in AUCTeX . . . . Omar – You don't have to miss that functionality in Org Mode! You can get it from smart-parens (which is all around great and I recommend using in every . . .
03:45 UTC (new) (history) 2016-10-10 Fast font changes in AUCTeX . . . . Marcin Borkowski – This is a really simple tip, but it saves a lot of dull work. In AUCTeX, you can mark some text and press C-c C-f C-e to put an \emph around it. Type C-c C-f C-h to see other options, divided into text and math modes. But wait, there’s more!

2016-10-03

03:42 UTC (new) (history) 2016-10-03 Many variants of a Beamer presentation – part II . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wrote a post about compiling two versions of a Beamer presentation from one source using the docmute package. I promised to show how to compile also lecture notes from the very same source. So, here’s how.

2016-09-26

03:40 UTC (new) (history) 2016-09-26 Emacs now suggests shorter ways of invocating a command . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Emacs has had suggesting keybindings for some time (according to git blame, about four years): if you M-x some command, and that command has a keybinding, it will show sth like You can run the command ‘find-file’ with C-x C-f for two seconds (by default). It is quite nice, non-intrusive and helpful. Emacs 25.1 took that to the next level.

2016-09-19

19:42 UTC (new) (history) 2016-09-19 C-x SPC (rectangle-mark-mode) . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It’s old news, but I was reminded about it recently. While Emacs has had support for rectangle operations (press C-x r C-h and look for commands with “rectangle” in their name) since a very long time, it acquired rectangle-mark-mode rather recently (a few years ago, in v24.4).