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2017-01-16

• 10:15 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2017-01-14 I'm now using the right dictionary . . . . Hermógenes Oliveira – Hello. I don't know if you are aware of the DICT Development Group at dict.org or the wonderful dictionary-el emacs package which provides an . . .

2017-01-14

• 19:55 UTC (new) (history) 2017-01-14 I'm now using the right dictionary . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Almost one and half years ago I read an interesting post on Irreal, and – as a great fan of the English language – I immediately went to the original post it mentioned. I did not regret it; I return to that post from time to time, since it is so beautiful, even poetic.

2017-01-08

• 07:44 UTC (new) (history) 2017-01-08 Last farewell . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I’ve been to a funeral a few days ago. There a few things that always strike me during such ceremonies.

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:

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