Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2016-10-18 23:53 UTC up to 2016-11-17 23:53 UTC

2016-11-17

2016-11-13

18:54 UTC (new) (history) 2016-11-13 debug-on-entry . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago, I had a very strange problem. I was writing a certain library for Emacs, and in one of the functions I had a Mark set message coming apparently out of nowhere. Since my function used timers, closures and callbacks to do things asynchronously, edebug didn’t help me a lot. Happily, I knew what can give such a message: push-mark. (BTW, this is yet another good reason to have Emacs sources handy: if I hadn’t known that, I could have just grepped the sources.) Now, finding the offending push-mark was a question of five seconds:

2016-11-07

14:28 UTC (new) (history) 2016-11-07 Displaying nonexistent text in Emacs buffers . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago, I received yet another email containing a date in the MM/DD/YY format, which is probably the least reasonable format in existence. (Here in Poland, the customary date format is DD.MM.YYYY, which makes much more sense. Personally, however, I very much prefer the ISO-8601-sanctioned YYYY-MM-DD format.) Since it is quite difficult to deal with date formats one is unfamiliar with, I decided to do something about it.

2016-10-30

05:26 UTC (new) (history) 2016-10-30 LaTeX-paragraph-commands . . . . Marcin Borkowski – When I use AUCTeX to edit Beamer presentations, I usually want \pause to be on its own line. Therefore, I added this to my init.el: (setq LaTeX-paragraph-commands '("pause" "blpause"))

2016-10-22

06:22 UTC (new) (history) 2016-10-22 locate-dominating-file . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago there was an interesting thread on the help-gnu-emacs mailing list. Basically, the OP wanted an equivalent of save-some-buffers, only not for all files, but for the ones under version control. More generally, he wanted to be able to programmatically get the list of buffers which visit files under VC. Go to the discussion to read about a few things Emacs can do. One of the things I learned from it was a very general function locate-dominating-file.