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2026-05-09

• 03:53 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-09 describe-personal-keybindings . . . . mbork – Some time ago one Emacs user made themselves a local web app showing various Emacs keybindings – basically, a web-based Emacs cheatsheet. It’s definitely a nice project even if not for me – if I were to create something like that, it would run in Emacs and not in the browser, it would definitely mention transpose-.* commands, and it would never be dark-mode-only;-). But it’s a really cool and nice project nevertheless! That’s not the topic of this post, however. In a Reddit discussion about this tool someone mentioned a command that blew me away: describe-personal-bindings.

2026-05-02

• 16:16 UTC (new) (history) 2026-05-02 Node.js reporting . . . . mbork – Some time ago I wrote about a new-ish feature of Node where it parses .env files (dotenv-style) itself. Today, I’m going to mention a feature which has been in Node for some quite time, but somehow I’m not sure many people know about it.

2026-04-25

• 03:01 UTC (new) (history) 2026-04-25 How I use my numeric keypad with Emacs Ledger mode . . . . mbork – As the readers of my blog know, I’m a heavy Ledger user. One thing that annoyed me was the fact that I couldn’t use my numeric keypad to enter amounts. The reason was simple – the “comma” key on that keypad inserted a comma in Emacs and not a period.

2026-04-20

• 16:42 UTC (new) (history) 2026-04-20 How to quickly generate the list of all columns in a PostgreSQL table . . . . mbork – It is well-known that select * is an antipattern (except maybe in an SQL REPL). What to do, however, if you have a select * in your codebase and you want to change it to a proper list of column names?

2026-04-13

• 18:56 UTC (new) (history) 2026-04-13 Binding TAB in Dired to something useful . . . . mbork – I’m old enough to remember Norton Commander for DOS. Despite that, I never used Midnight Commander nor Sunrise Commander – Dired is still my go-to file manager these days. In fact, Dired has a feature which seems to be inspired by NC: when there are two Dired windows, the default destination for copying, moving and symlinking is “the other” window. Surprisingly, another feature which would be natural in an orthodox file manager is absent from Dired

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