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2016-02-06

• 08:37 UTC (new) (history) 2016-02-06 An attachment reminder in mu4e . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A nice feature of Gmail is that you can ask it to remind you about attachments if the message contains things like “I attach” and there is no attachment. Some time ago I decided that I want my mu4e to do this, too. (And it seems that I'm far from being the only one.) And here it my take on the subject.

2016-01-30

• 22:17 UTC (new) (history) 2016-01-30 Dimming out tildes in AUCTeX . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I often write LaTeX in Emacs with AUCTeX. One thing I use a lot is tildes (these little ~ signs, which for LaTeX mean “unbreakable space”). [...] The problem with tildes is that they don’t look like spaces, and if you use them a lot, it becomes a bit more difficult to actually read the LaTeX source.

2016-01-23

• 23:26 UTC (new) (history) 2016-01-23 Personal Information Managers – a rant . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I had this weird experience. A friend of mine wrote on some social media site that his daughter was born that day, and he asked (semi-jokingly, I guess) for wishes next year, for her first birthday. Of course, I immediately put the date into Org-mode, and promptly forgot about it...

2016-01-17

• 09:51 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2016-01-16 save-excursion changed semantics . . . . Skywalker – Aww... There was some heated discussion on the emacs-devel mailing list about this change... Basically the emacs maintainer thought that this was an . . .

2016-01-16

• 21:33 UTC (new) (history) 2016-01-16 save-excursion changed semantics . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Recently, when coding on a new Emacs (compiled from source), I stumbled upon a strange behavior of save-excursion: it didn’t restore the mark status. I was quite sure that it should do that, but – for lack of better ideas – I C-h f‘d it. And here is what I learned...

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