Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2021-04-27 05:13 UTC up to 2021-05-27 05:13 UTC

2021-05-24

04:37 UTC (new) (history) 2021-05-24 Ivy and ignoring the order of tokens . . . . mbork – Emacs function naming is strange. I rediscovered that fact a few weeks ago when I tried to find a function giving me the position of the beginning of the current line. I tried to look for a function whose name would match begin.*line, and there was none. I concluded that there is no such function (which was strange, but I learned not to be surprised that often), and proceeded to write my own. After some time I found out that such a function obviously exists, and that it is called… line-beginning-position. Oh well.

2021-05-17

19:43 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2021-05-01 Emacs Lisp book revived . . . . pkd – The RSS feed is great, thank you!
19:33 UTC (new) (history) 2021-05-17 Updating an Emacs buffer in real-time . . . . mbork – I am in the process of writing some Elisp code which needs to provide feedback to the user about a certain aspect of the state of the buffer. (This is a bit vague, I know, but the whole thing is not yet blog-ready – sorry for that. And since it is a fair amount of code, I won’t be blogging about it in detail when it’s done, so I decided to share one or two things if they are potentially interesting.) The point is that every change to the buffer’s content may change that aspect, and computing it may be a bit expensive. The problem is, how to do that efficiently?

2021-05-10

16:54 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2021-05-08 Disabling distractions . . . . mbork – Interesting, thanks! I used to use LeechBlock, which (for some reason) scaled poorly (in terms of RAM consumption) with the number of tabs open, so I . . .

2021-05-09

13:37 UTC (new) (history) 2021-05-08 Disabling distractions . . . . mbork – Like many other people, I have to fight with distractions a lot. The main distractors (at least when I work on my computer) are a few websites that rhyme with “litter”, “space crook” and “poo cube”. Some time ago I decided that I need to take brutal action against them, and I put this in my /etc/hosts file:

2021-05-01

08:40 UTC (new) (history) 2021-05-01 Emacs Lisp book revived . . . . mbork – Five and a half years ago I mentioned that I was writing an intermediate book on Emacs Lisp programming. Unfortunately, the project started – and then stalled for quite some time.