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2026-05-20

• 14:37 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2026-05-18 Marking today’s files in Dired . . . . 109.252.167.113 – The `dired-mark-if' `macro` also marks special lines (such as those specifying a directory path), so let's exclude such lines: (dired-mark-if (let . . .

2026-05-18

• 21:01 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-18 Marking today’s files in Dired . . . . mbork – As anyone reading my blog knows, I’m a big fan of Dired. One of its killer features is the set of marking commands, which allow marking files based on their extensions, names (regex-based), contents (also regex-based). There is also a “universal marking command”, dired-mark-sexp, which allows the user to provide an Elisp expression serving as a predicate and marks all files satisfying that predicate. What’s even more, you can use several symbols in that predicate, like size or name (head to the docs to learn more). What I found lacking is an easy (that is, not requiring me to type a convoluted expression each time) way to mark “recently modified” files.

2026-05-09

• 03:53 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-09 describe-personal-keybindings . . . . mbork – Some time ago one Emacs user made themselves a local web app showing various Emacs keybindings – basically, a web-based Emacs cheatsheet. It’s definitely a nice project even if not for me – if I were to create something like that, it would run in Emacs and not in the browser, it would definitely mention transpose-.* commands, and it would never be dark-mode-only;-). But it’s a really cool and nice project nevertheless! That’s not the topic of this post, however. In a Reddit discussion about this tool someone mentioned a command that blew me away: describe-personal-bindings.

2026-05-02

• 16:16 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-02 Node.js reporting . . . . mbork – Some time ago I wrote about a new-ish feature of Node where it parses .env files (dotenv-style) itself. Today, I’m going to mention a feature which has been in Node for some quite time, but somehow I’m not sure many people know about it.

2026-04-25

• 03:01 UTC (new) (history) 2026-04-25 How I use my numeric keypad with Emacs Ledger mode . . . . mbork – As the readers of my blog know, I’m a heavy Ledger user. One thing that annoyed me was the fact that I couldn’t use my numeric keypad to enter amounts. The reason was simple – the “comma” key on that keypad inserted a comma in Emacs and not a period.

2026-04-20

• 16:42 UTC (new) (history) 2026-04-20 How to quickly generate the list of all columns in a PostgreSQL table . . . . mbork – It is well-known that select * is an antipattern (except maybe in an SQL REPL). What to do, however, if you have a select * in your codebase and you want to change it to a proper list of column names?

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