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2025-09-19

• 21:04 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2025-02-10 Running one own's commands . . . . piyo – Thanks for the tip. I like to also see my commands in a menu so I use the builtin easymenu.el (and a lot of diy code). I would use the toolbar if . . .
• 20:45 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2025-09-15 Entering dates in Emacs Calc . . . . piyo – Thanks for the tip. Consider using "<%s> day" instead so that you can unit calc and simplify. eg. <ts> day + 12 wk + 0.75 day or . . .

2025-09-15

• 16:41 UTC (new) (history) 2025-09-15 Entering dates in Emacs Calc . . . . mbork – I perform date arithmetic pretty often in Emacs Calc. One problem I’ve always had with that is that entering date forms is very far from ergonomic. (To be fair to Calc, once you get used to how Org mode allows to enter dates, basically any other way of entering them feels slow and inconvenient. This is what Org manual says about it: “The actions of the date/time prompt may seem complex, but I assure you they will grow on you, and you will start getting annoyed by pretty much any other way of entering a date/time out there” – and boy, is it true!) So, it occurred to me that it would be great to be able to use the Org date prompt in Calc. Of course, this is Emacs, so it shouldn’t be difficult, right?

2025-09-08

• 17:24 UTC (new) (history) 2025-09-08 Emacs Artist clock . . . . mbork – A few months ago I mentioned Artist mode. It seems that at least one person liked that post enough to mention it (thanks!), even if indirectly. That very post also mentioned svg-clock, which is a cute analog clock displayed directly in Emacs. Of course, my immediate thought was, why not create an ASCII-art analog clock using Artist mode?

2025-09-01

• 19:11 UTC (new) (history) 2025-09-01 Differentiating between C-c C-c and C-c C-k . . . . mbork – Some of the habits I use Beeminder for are maintaining a journal and weighing myself. The way I do these things is that I have a few capture templates with a nonempty :after-finalize property set to a lambda which sends a datapoint to Beeminder. The problem is, it also sends its datapoint if I press C-c C-k, effectively canceling the entry. How to make it not do so?

2025-08-25

• 05:41 UTC (new) (history) 2025-08-25 Counting Org mode headlines . . . . mbork – One thing I need pretty often is to be able to count Org mode headlines in the subtree I’m in. It’s a bit surprising that Org does not know how to do that, but this is Emacs, so fixing it should be very easy, right? Indeed, it is

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