Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2015-10-15 17:45 UTC up to 2015-11-14 17:45 UTC

2015-11-14

07:20 UTC (new) (history) 2015-11-14 A simple unfilling function . . . . Marcin Borkowski – While the concept of filling text (i.e., putting hard newlines so that no line is longer than some limit) is well-known and very useful, the question about how to unfill some text (i.e., change all hard newlines to spaces) comes up again and again. The internet is full of solutions to that, but I never bothered to look into any of these – if I had a need to unfill a paragraph, I just used to set-fill-column to, say, ten thounsand and filled the paragraph. It was never a common thing for me to do, so I didn’t feel the need to optimize it. Until recently...

2015-11-13

2015-11-07

22:24 UTC (new) (history) 2015-11-07 Converting numbers to strings in a human-friendly way . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Converting an Elisp number to a string (so that it can be e.g. displayed) is a surprisingly tricky thing to do. While (format "%s" number) seems a reasonable way, sometimes it’s not. In one application I was writing I wanted to display integer numbers as integer numbers, even if they happen to be floating point numbers with zero fractional part.

2015-10-31

23:10 UTC (new) (history) 2015-10-31 Smart comma and other punctuation . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I do a lot of natural text editing in Emacs. And by editing I mean editing, i.e., it is often the case that I edit texts written by someone else. This is a fine distinction: for instance, when I type the text myself, I usually put the commas where they belong, but when I edit someone else’s text, I often need to insert a comma where it should be.

2015-10-29

14:49 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2015-09-26 A few org-agenda hacks . . . . z3ttacht – As well as one for restoring your layout when exiting agenda view. (setq org-agenda-restore-windows-after-quit t)

2015-10-24

22:53 UTC (new) (history) 2015-10-24 Yanking from Calc . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Using Emacs Calc for calculations is one thing. Yanking the results into the document is another, and very often quite useful. There are a few ways to do that.

2015-10-17

22:50 UTC (new) (history) 2015-10-17 xkcd-541 mode . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I’m still very busy at the moment (and this will look like this for three more months – my current teaching schedule is insane), but I really do not want to lose the tempo of one blog post per week (however short). So for today I chose a lighter topic: xkcd-541-mode.