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2026-10-05

• 19:26 UTC (new) (history) 2026-10-05 Emacs Lock mode . . . . mbork – Today I only have a short tip. Sometimes you may have an important Emacs buffer you don’t want to kill accidentally. (For example, it might be an Eshell buffer with a long-running process, or a scratch buffer not associated with any file where you have some notes – although that is obviously asking for trouble.)

2026-09-28

• 18:17 UTC (new) (history) 2026-09-28 How many screens left . . . . mbork – One of the things I do in Emacs is reading. Sometimes it is an article copied from the internet using org-web-tools, sometimes it is a long answer to my question to an LLM, and sometimes it is an ebook I’m reading using nov.el. Either way, I often like to know how much I have left.

2026-09-21

• 16:36 UTC (new) (history) 2026-09-21 forward-paragraph in Magit . . . . mbork – As I’ve mentioned many times, I am a heavy Magit user. Pretty often I do code reviews from within Magit. There was one thing that has bothered me for a long time.

2026-09-17

• 05:30 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2026-08-10 Emphasizing a region in Org mode . . . . mbork – Thanks, I've heard about it, maybe I'll try it out!

2026-09-12

• 06:11 UTC (new) (history) 2026-09-12 Duplicating lines and other Emacs miscellanea . . . . mbork – A few weeks ago I wrote about how I remapped yank to my command which allows to transform the yanked text. The whole setup – where I press C-y twice to trigger the transformation transient – has one drawback: I sometimes legitimately want to call yank twice in a row. This happens when I need to copy the current line and modify the copy so that I have two similar lines in a row. (I often need this when editing Ledger transactions, for example.) What I sometimes do in such a situation is basically a dance of C-a C-1 C-k C-y C-y. It turns out I don’t need to.

2026-09-07

• 19:41 UTC (new) (history) 2026-09-07 Pasting primary selection from keyboard . . . . mbork – 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.

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