Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates in the last 30 days

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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.

2026-09-21

16:36 UTC (new) (history) 2026-09-21 forward-paragraph in Magit . . . . mbork – As I’ve mentioned many times, I am a heavy Magit user. Pretty often I do code reviews from within Magit. There was one thing that has bothered me for a long time.

2026-09-12

06:11 UTC (new) (history) 2026-09-12 Duplicating lines and other Emacs miscellanea . . . . mbork – A few weeks ago I wrote about how I remapped yank to my command which allows to transform the yanked text. The whole setup – where I press C-y twice to trigger the transformation transient – has one drawback: I sometimes legitimately want to call yank twice in a row. This happens when I need to copy the current line and modify the copy so that I have two similar lines in a row. (I often need this when editing Ledger transactions, for example.) What I sometimes do in such a situation is basically a dance of C-a C-1 C-k C-y C-y. It turns out I don’t need to.