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2018-03-10

• 05:14 UTC (new) (history) 2018-03-10 A tip on yanking . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I have a few longer posts in the works, but for today I want to share a simple trick. We Emacs users all know and love the kill ring, and many of us know about M-y (yank-pop) and even C-u ... C-y (i.e., a numeric argment to yank). For those who don’t know: C-u 1 C-y is equivalent to plain C-y, but C-u 2 C-y (or just C-2 C-y) inserts the previous killed text (much like C-y M-y), and also marks it as the current one. With higher arguments, it inserts earlier kills.

2018-03-03

• 07:18 UTC (new) (history) 2018-03-03 pdf-annot-print-annotation-functions and Windows newlines . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I wrote about how I use Andreas Politz’s excellent pdf-tools to work with annotated pdfs. I still think this is great, but there was one thing that annoyed me a lot. Multiline annotations made on Windows (I guess) displayed with ^M in place of newlines. That is unfortunate, and I sometimes manually changed them to ^J (i.e., newlines). It dawned upon me, however, that being a programmer, I should be able to do something better about it.
• 07:15 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2018-02-12 append-next-kill . . . . Marcin Borkowski – @Kurvivor: how about a good old {{{C-g}}}?

2018-02-25

• 07:13 UTC (new) (history) 2018-02-25 Simple way of assigning formulas to fields and columns in Org tables . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today I’m going to share a simple trick concerning Org-mode spreadsheet tables. I knew that I could press C-u C-c = in an Org-mode table cell to install a formula in that cell (or C-c = to install a column formula). However, there is a simpler way: you can just type := followed by the formula and press TAB, RET or C-c C-c. (Without a colon, it installs a column formula.) Very handy! (And it was in the manual all along… Once more I learned that at least skimming through the manual from time to time is a good idea!)

2018-02-19

• 17:36 UTC (new) (history) 2018-02-19 A console.log gotcha in Node.js . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I’ve been writing a certain Node.js script recently, and I was caught by surprise with an innocent-looking console.log. So, here is my warning to all unsuspecting Node.js script writers.

2018-02-12

• 20:23 UTC (new) (history) 2018-02-12 append-next-kill . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today I’d like to share a simple trick which I learned a few days ago. It is well-known that if you perform a few killing commands in a row (like C-k or M-d), only one entry is put into the kill ring. Sometimes, however, I want to kill things in different places and still combine them into one kill ring entry. Enter C-M-w, or M-x append-next-kill. It makes the next killing command append its prey to the last kill ring entry.

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