Recent Changes

2016-12-18

• 18:55 UTC (new) (history) 2016-12-18 Generating links to info buffers . . . . Marcin Borkowski – When writing an email about Emacs, e.g. on the help-gnu-emacs mailing list, I often want to include a link to an Info node. It is easy in Org-mode, where you can use org-store-link (however, by default, the link does not export “properly” to HTML, though, i.e., you don’t get the link to the online Emacs manual) and then org-insert-link. But even if you don’t use Org-mode, there is a nice trick:

2016-12-12

• 06:43 UTC (new) (history) 2016-12-12 momentary-string-display . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wrote about making Emacs display things without actually modifying any buffer. I used text properties then, and I mentioned that a similar thing could be done using overlays, too. Well, it turns out that there exists a very interesting function in Emacs (and it indeed uses overlays internally), which could be of help in a situation like that: momentary-string-display.

2016-12-04

• 19:05 UTC (new) (history) 2016-12-04 Making C-c C-j in AUCTeX do something more useful . . . . Marcin Borkowski – In AUCTeX’s LaTeX mode, C-c C-j is by default bound to LaTeX-insert-item. By default, it just inserts an \item on a new line. I thought that it would be cool to make it insert something else in non-itemize environments. It turns out that I was late, though – the functionality is already there! It is not widely known, however; in particular, it’s not mentioned in the manual.

2016-11-27

• 11:44 UTC (new) (history) 2016-11-27 Life, productivity, faith . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today’s post is very atypical. It’s been a long time since the last non-technical post, bur here’s another one.

2016-11-19

• 08:44 UTC (new) (history) 2016-11-19 format-spec . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Last week I was coding something Emacs-y, and felt the need of a format-like function. It would get a string with embedded “control codes”, like %t% or %h, and then output a string with these “control codes” replaced by actual content. Writing something like that is not particularly difficult, but since I wanted to be able to also escape the percent sign by writing %%, I didn’t really feel like reinventing the wheel (and doing it elegantly and efficiently might be a tad tricky anyway). I asked a question on the help-gnu-emacs mailing list, and voilà! Here is the format-spec function.

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