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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.

2026-10-10

• 05:14 UTC (new) (history) 2026-10-10 Repeating commands . . . . mbork – Emacs is well-known for its arcane keybindings, often involving three or more keypresses. For example, C-x z is bound to the repeat command which – well – repeats the last command. However, there is another feature of Emacs which uses the word “repeat” and is very useful.

2026-10-05

• 19:26 UTC (new) (history) 2026-10-05 Emacs Lock mode . . . . mbork – Today I only have a short tip. Sometimes you may have an important Emacs buffer you don’t want to kill accidentally. (For example, it might be an Eshell buffer with a long-running process, or a scratch buffer not associated with any file where you have some notes – although that is obviously asking for trouble.)

2026-09-28

• 18:17 UTC (new) (history) 2026-09-28 How many screens left . . . . mbork – One of the things I do in Emacs is reading. Sometimes it is an article copied from the internet using org-web-tools, sometimes it is a long answer to my question to an LLM, and sometimes it is an ebook I’m reading using nov.el. Either way, I often like to know how much I have left.

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