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2026-11-09

• 18:41 UTC (new) (history) 2026-11-09 A tip on removing functions from hooks interactively . . . . mbork – When I customize my Emacs, I often utilize hooks. However, when experimenting, I often inadvertently add the wrong thing to a hook – a function I later decide to rename or even a lambda. I have always painstakingly written the correct remove-hook invocation to do it. A few days ago it occurred to me that it would be nice to write an interactive wrapper around remove-hook to make it easier. As usual in such cases, I started with a bit of research to see if someone did something similar already. To my surprise, not only is this a solved problem, but it’s solved in Emacs itself! Apparently, almost six years ago remove-hook was made into a command and you can just M-x it, provide the hook variable name and use autocompletion to decide what to remove from it (including lambdas!). How cool is that?

2026-11-02

• 20:37 UTC (new) (history) 2026-11-02 Skill shed . . . . mbork – A few weeks ago I mentioned how I started writing agent skills for use with my LLM-based coding assistant. It turned out that I encountered a few rough edges pretty quickly.

2026-10-26

• 19:12 UTC (new) (history) 2026-10-26 Unicode punctuation in Emacs . . . . mbork – I have a rather complicated relationship with non-ASCII punctuation. On the one hand, I like to keep my files (for example Org mode files) clean of Unicode stuff – especially emojis – with the obvious exception of Polish diacritical characters (“ąćęłńóśźżĄĆĘŁŃÓŚŹŻ”, if you are curious). On the other hand, I am a big fan of long dashes (though I very much prefer en-dashes to em-dashes); I also like using “proper” quotation marks.

2026-10-17

• 05:55 UTC (new) (history) 2026-10-17 Using timers to perform weekly tasks . . . . mbork – There are some things I do on a regular basis, and of course I try to automate as much as possible so that I don’t need to remember them. One of these things is a weekly review. A part of my weekly review is checking how much time I’d spent on various things during the past week.

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