Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2018-12-07 23:53 UTC up to 2019-01-06 23:53 UTC

2019-01-06

21:14 UTC (new) (history) 2019-01-06 Emacs server and other Emacs instances . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A few years ago, I mentioned indirectly that I use emacs-server. For some time, I just had (emacs-server) in my init.el. This, however, had an annoying side effect of giving an error when I started a second instance of Emacs.

2018-12-31

08:26 UTC (new) (history) 2018-12-31 An info about the size of message attachments . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I have been using mu4e for quite a long time as my email client now. I would never switch back to Claws Mail again (maybe mutt, with emacsclient as the editor;-)). However, mu4e has some rough edges. One of them (which is really a problem with Emacs’ message-mode) is displaying of attachments when writing the message.
08:23 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2018-12-24 Merry Christmas . . . . Marcin Borkowski – You're welcome!

2018-12-24

22:01 UTC (new) (history) 2018-12-24 Merry Christmas . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As usual at this time of year, I have best Christmas wishes for everyone reading this. I wish that you all discover the beauty and truth of the . . .

2018-12-16

11:46 UTC (new) (history) 2018-12-16 A simple tip on using destructive functions . . . . Marcin Borkowski – This is something fairly obvious to every seasoned Lisp programmer, but let’s not forget that there are novices, too. Many Elisp functions are noted to be “destructive”, which means that they can change their arguments. For instance, if you want to sort a list, you may use the sort function, which is said to modify its argument by side effects (this is exactly what “destructive” means). This does not necessarily mean, however, that after executing (sort some-list), the variable some-list will magically contain a sorted version of it previous self! Let’s consider two examples.

2018-12-10

05:00 UTC (new) (history) 2018-12-10 Lesser known Dired stuff . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It is not a secret that I am a big fan of Dired. Recently I learned about a thing introduced relatively recently into Emacs