http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://mbork.pl/Homepage Strona domowa Marcina Borkowskiego Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:41:52 GMT Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:41:52 GMT Oddmuse https://mbork.pl/2026-09-07_Pasting_primary_selection_from_keyboard https://mbork.pl/2026-09-07_Pasting_primary_selection_from_keyboard A few years ago I wrote about a setup I coded for myself for when I want to make paying my bills a tiny bit less painful. One thing I mentioned then was the primary selection. For those of you who don’t know it: under X.org, you can select a portion of text (for example by dragging the mouse over it) and then paste it in the same or another application with clicking the middle button. It is extremely useful for quick copy-and-paste operations where you do not have to issue a separate “copy” command (usually C-c, but often also found on mouse context menu). And by the way, Wayland also supports this. Sometimes I find it useful to use it even without the mouse. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:41:52 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-09-07_Pasting_primary_selection_from_keyboard mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-09-07_Pasting_primary_selection_from_keyboard https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-09-07_Pasting_primary_selection_from_keyboard https://mbork.pl/2026-08-24_Transforming_yanked_text https://mbork.pl/2026-08-24_Transforming_yanked_text Recently I found myself killing and yanking more often than ever. One problem with that is that the capitalization and punctuation of what I have yanked is often wrong. As a (pretty stupid) example, I might see the sentence “This is bad.”, and I might want to write another one: “He thinks that this is bad, and he’s right.” If I use kill-sentence (M-k) or backward-kill-sentence (C-x DEL), I have the whole This is bad. in the kill ring, but what I need to yank is this is bad (with lower-case “t” and without the period), so I need to make both changes after yanking. After several dozen such cases I thought, this is Emacs, I shouldn’t be doing this manually! Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:01:51 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-08-24_Transforming_yanked_text mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-08-24_Transforming_yanked_text https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-08-24_Transforming_yanked_text https://mbork.pl/2026-08-17_A_text_expander_for_Android https://mbork.pl/2026-08-17_A_text_expander_for_Android Like many Emacs users, I’m a heavy Org mode user. Some time ago I decided that I need a way to access at least some of my Org files on my (Android) phone. Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:06:50 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-08-17_A_text_expander_for_Android mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-08-17_A_text_expander_for_Android https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-08-17_A_text_expander_for_Android https://mbork.pl/2026-08-10_Emphasizing_a_region_in_Org_mode https://mbork.pl/2026-08-10_Emphasizing_a_region_in_Org_mode One of the most basic features of Org mode is its markup. It is basically the Markdown of the Emacs world (although some people, like Karl Voit, claim that it’s superior to Markdown), and it lets do basic things like italic, bold or verbatim very easily – at least if you’re writing text. I, on the other hand, happen to edit text pretty often. This is very different from writing. When I write, typing a slash before and after something I want to emphasize is easy. When I edit and just want to make some text bold, putting stars around it is much less convenient. Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:35:30 GMT https://mbork.pl/Comments_on_2026-08-10_Emphasizing_a_region_in_Org_mode mbork new major 1 https://mbork.pl?action=history;id=2026-08-10_Emphasizing_a_region_in_Org_mode https://mbork.pl?action=browse;diff=1;id=2026-08-10_Emphasizing_a_region_in_Org_mode