http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://mbork.pl/Homepage Strona domowa Marcina Borkowskiego Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:54:01 GMT Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:54:01 GMT Oddmuse https://mbork.pl/2026-06-06_Copying_images_in_Emacs https://mbork.pl/2026-06-06_Copying_images_in_Emacs A few weeks ago I was on vacation. Of course I brought back quite a few pictures with me. When I got back, I sat to select some of them to make a gallery for my family and friends. I started with copying all pictures from two mobile phones and a camera to my laptop. Then I wanted to copy a few carefully chosen images to one directory. To my surprise, Emacs’ Image mode does not have a command to copy the currently viewed image to another directory. Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:54:01 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-06-06_Copying_images_in_Emacs mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-06-06_Copying_images_in_Emacs https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-06-06_Copying_images_in_Emacs https://mbork.pl/2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files https://mbork.pl/2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files I quite like the global Auto Revert mode. It is especially useful when I something else than Emacs sometimes changes my files. (I bet some readers immediately thought about the now-fashionable agentic coding, but plain old git switch is enough!) It has one drawback, however. I hardly ever use TeX nowadays, but when I do, I use pdf-tools. Auto Revert mode doesn’t play nice with pdfs open in Emacs, often trying to revert them before TeX finishes writing to them, which results in ugly flickering. Mon, 25 May 2026 19:25:17 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-05-25_Ignoring_pdfs_when_auto-reverting_files https://mbork.pl/2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired https://mbork.pl/2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired 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. Mon, 18 May 2026 21:01:00 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-05-18_Marking_today%e2%80%99s_files_in_Dired