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2025-12-25

• 22:54 UTC (new) (history) 2025-12-25 Christmas 2025 . . . . mbork – This time my Christmas wishes to the readers are short but sincere - after some family visits I’m pretty tired. Still, as usual, I will pray a decade of Rosary for all of you. Merry Christmas!

2025-12-22

• 19:43 UTC (new) (history) 2025-12-22 Summing effort estimates, my way . . . . mbork – For some time now I’ve been planning my tasks for the upcoming week every Sunday morning. Not for my day job – this is not something I want to bother my mind with on Sundays, and besides we have Jira for that – but for my personal life. Stuff like doing things around the house, planning doctor’s appointments, etc. For each task I estimate the time it’s going to take, and I don’t want to plan more than some fixed amount of time per week. Naturally, I’d like to have the total time counted for me by my computer.
• 19:36 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2025-12-01 Uppercasing a single letter . . . . mbork – Thanks to both of you for your comments! The fact is, I forgot about subword-mode...
• 19:35 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2025-12-08 Some new additions to Emacs . . . . mbork – Very good points, thanks!
• 19:35 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2025-12-15 Improving Emacs screenshots . . . . mbork – You're welcome!

2025-12-15

• 18:04 UTC (new) (history) 2025-12-15 Improving Emacs screenshots . . . . mbork – Three years ago I wrote a short post about making screenshots directly in Emacs. I’m still using that feature from time to time (last time when I was writing the post about changing window layouts), and I noticed that it could use some improvement.

2025-12-08

• 20:19 UTC (new) (history) 2025-12-08 Some new additions to Emacs . . . . mbork – While I’ve been compiling my Emacs from source code for a very long time, I do not do that very often. I’m still excited by the cool new things Emacs developers cook for us all, but I don’t have time (nor do I remember) to git pull and make all my Emacs very often. However, I did it a few days ago, and was greeted with three surprises – two fantastic ones and one less so.

2025-12-01

• 19:04 UTC (new) (history) 2025-12-01 Uppercasing a single letter . . . . Anonymous – There are some key bindings in Emacs which many people remap to something they consider “more useful”. I do it myself – pretty much the only thing the default binding for C-z (suspend-frame) does is annoy me. What I don’t understand is that some people do this to M-c, M-l and M-u, bound to capitalize-word, downcase-word and upcase-word respectively by default. I consider them tremendously useful (in fact, I sometimes even use C-x C-l (downcase-region) even though I claimed myself back in 2019 that it’s “useless”!). What I want is not fewer case-changing commands, but more of them!

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