Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2022-05-20 23:53 UTC up to 2022-06-19 23:53 UTC

2022-06-13

19:14 UTC (new) (history) 2022-06-13 Highlighting and de-highlighting things . . . . mbork – From time to time I want to perform a kind-of “human search” on a file. For example, there is some keyword – or maybe something describable by a regex – and I want to be able to easily spot all of its occurrences in some file. For some reason, isearch or Swiper won’t work for me. (This may happen if, for instance, I don’t exactly know what I’m looking for. Imagine going through some file and deciding to search for some keywords only when I actually see them for the first time. So, I’m skimming a buffer and once I see the word “banana”, I go “hey, bananas are good, let’s find more of them” and then I want to easily see every line containing the word “banana”. Skimming further, I can see the word “apple” and I suddenly have a craving for apples, so I want to add apples to things that should be easily seen. And so on.) It turns out that Emacs has a few commands which can help with that.

2022-06-04

07:04 UTC (new) (history) 2022-06-04 Diffing structural changes revisited . . . . mbork – Two and a half years ago I blogged about diffing program structure changes. Since then I learned about a fantastic new diffing tool, called (very appropriately) Difftastic, by Wilfred Hughes, the author of many great Emacs packages I will definitely blog about some day.

2022-05-29

08:26 UTC (new) (history) 2022-05-29 A short hike in Polish . . . . mbork – Dzisiejszy post jest nieco nietypowy, choćby z z tego powodu, że jest dwujęzyczny – co ma sens, zważywszy na jego temat. Today's post is rather atypical, if only because it is //bilingual// -- which makes sense, given the subject.

2022-05-23

05:39 UTC (new) (history) 2022-05-23 Copying code snippets . . . . mbork – Two weeks ago I wrote about copying stuff from Emacs to the system clipboard, converting from Org-mode to markdown along the way. Even earlier, I wrote a snippet of code to convert double spaces to single ones when copying. Let’s continue the thread of transforming stuff while copying it from Emacs.