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2026-03-02

• 16:39 UTC (new) (history) 2026-03-02 Lispy and Iedit . . . . mbork – A bit over a decade ago (!) I wrote about Iedit. It’s a very cool package, a bit similar to multiple cursors, very convenient for changing variable names (especially that it has a great feature where the change is restricted to the current function). I am also a Lispy user. Lispy requires Iedit (and has a binding for it different from the default one – M-i – while Iedit’s default I’m used to is C-;). The problem is, when I added Lispy to my Emacs, it disabled the default C-; (and only installed M-i in Elisp buffers). Now, I admit that M-i may be a better (or at least not worse) keybinding for Iedit than C-;. It’s default binding is tab-to-tab-stop, which is one of those useless commands Emacs has had probably for decades. Personally, I’m accustomed to C-;, so I wanted Lispy not to interfere with Iedit setting that keybinding.

2026-02-21

• 17:07 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-21 Org links’ targets . . . . mbork – When I write blog posts containing several links (usually to Emacs documentation, sometimes to my other posts and sometimes to other websites), one of the things I do is to check if all the links are correct. Usually I just middle-click on every one of them in the browser and see if they lead to the right place. I thought, however, that it would be useful to be able to see where an Org link points to without actually going there.

2026-02-16

• 15:03 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-16 Toy train timetable improvements – buttons . . . . mbork – A few weeks ago I wrote about my toy train timetable clock. I used it with my son a few times since then, and it worked great. However, some things that I imagined would be a good idea turned out to be a bit worse UI-wise.

2026-02-09

• 16:28 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-09 2026-02-09 Node modules working as command-line scripts revisited . . . . mbork – Deleted 2026-02-09_2026-02-09_Node_modules_working_as_command-line_scripts_revisited
• 16:27 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-09 Node modules working as command-line scripts revisited . . . . mbork – Over five years ago I wrote a short post about writing JavaScript scripts which also work as CJS modules. I wrote that I didn’t know how to perform a similar trick with ESM modules, and that it might even be impossible. Well, I was wrong. I found a solution in the book Shell scripting with Node.js by Axel Rauschmayer.

2026-02-02

• 06:00 UTC (new) (history) 2026-02-02 git-link . . . . mbork – I have recently discovered a great little package called git-link. It is a wonderful addition to Emacs’ Git-related capabilities. Its purpose is to create links to various Git repositories (it supports GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab and several others) based on where the point is.

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