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2022-06-24

• 19:31 UTC (new) (history) 2022-06-24 A great day for life . . . . mbork – God bless America!!!

2022-06-20

• 17:55 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2022-06-13 Highlighting and de-highlighting things . . . . mbork – Thanks, I never saw this! Looks interesting, though [[2016-02-20 Iedit mode|Iedit]] seems to have much of its functionality.
• 17:53 UTC (new) (history) 2022-06-20 Copying the current location . . . . mbork – Continuing the trend of playing around with copying stuff from Emacs to the system clipboard, today I’d like to talk about a command I wrote a few days ago.

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.

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