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2026-06-15

• 23:21 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2026-06-15 Scrolling pdfs in other windows . . . . karthink – This is a common-enough need that the Emacs developers have you covered -- you don't need advice for this. From the release notes for Emacs 29: . . .
• 16:05 UTC (new) (history) 2026-06-15 Scrolling pdfs in other windows . . . . mbork – I have written about pdf-tools quite a few times – it’s a fantastic Emacs package for viewing and annotating pdfs without leaving the comfort of Emacs. It is not ideal, though – or at least, not ideal for me. One feature of Emacs I often use is the scroll-other-window command (bound to C-M-v), and its sibling scroll-other-window-down (C-M-S-v). They are extremely useful for example when reading documentation or watching live Markdown preview, and I wish they worked with the TeX and pdf-tools duo, too. Well, it’s Emacs, so it shouldn’t be difficult to make them!

2026-06-06

• 04:54 UTC (new) (history) 2026-06-06 Copying images in Emacs . . . . mbork – 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.

2026-06-01

• 20:00 UTC (new) (history) 2026-06-01 My impressions with agentic coding . . . . mbork – For the past several months I’ve been experimenting with so-called “agentic coding”, that is, using LLMs to write software. I have to say that I’m quite impressed by the possibilities this opens – and at the same time, pretty annoyed by the limitations…

2026-05-25

• 19:25 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-25 Ignoring pdfs when auto-reverting files . . . . mbork – 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.

2026-05-20

• 14:37 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2026-05-18 Marking today’s files in Dired . . . . 109.252.167.113 – The `dired-mark-if' `macro` also marks special lines (such as those specifying a directory path), so let's exclude such lines: (dired-mark-if (let . . .

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