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2017-01-01

• 15:00 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2016-12-31 JavaScript head . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Fair enough. In my use-case, I had the whole string in memory anyway, so no additional overhead was involved.

2016-12-31

• 22:39 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2016-11-27 Life, productivity, faith . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Thanks a lot, Daniel, and sorry for my delay. Yes, I was referring to that passage of Saint Paul. In . . .
• 17:37 UTC (new) (history) 2016-12-31 JavaScript head . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I needed an equivalent of Unix’ head utility in JavaScript. I had a string, spanning many lines, and I wanted to have just the first 10 lines of it. It turned out that this is actually very easy to do so:

2016-12-24

• 09:13 UTC (new) (history) 2016-12-24 Merry Christmas . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Merry Christmas to all of you! I wish you that Jesus, our Lord and Savior, who will be born tonight, would give you His blessing and grace. Also, I will again offer a decade of rosary for you all.

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.

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