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2017-03-04

• 17:06 UTC (new) (history) 2017-03-04 Bookmarking directories in Eshell . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A friend of mine showed me a nifty trick, basically bookmarking directories in bash. While this is nice, I often use Eshell, and I wanted a similar thing there. (Notice that while Emacs bookmarks do work in Dired, they won’t let you bookmark a directory in Eshell!) Bonus points for sharing the bookmark database (which is basically a directory called ~/.marks/ containing symlinks to bookmarked directories).

2017-02-26

• 17:14 UTC (new) (history) 2017-02-26 other-window-or-switch-buffer . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I decided to bind f6 to other-window. I lived happily with that binding, but then something struck me. My f6 key was completely useless when I had only one window in the current frame. What a waste! So, I decided to code this.

2017-02-19

• 12:50 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2017-02-18 Using isearch-string on exit from isearch . . . . mutbuerger – There is a locally defined `isearch-mode` that is set to " Isearch" whenever an isearch command is called. `isearch-done` sets it to nil again. . . .

2017-02-18

• 16:05 UTC (new) (history) 2017-02-18 Using isearch-string on exit from isearch . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Recently, I wanted my function, which asks the user for some string, use the isearch term as the default. That’s easy – the variable isearch-string holds the term searched (note that it may be a plain string or a regex!). The problem was, I wanted that to be the default only when I invoked my command from isearch (sort of what M-% does when called from within isearch). The way M-% does its magic when invoked during isearch is simple: in isearch-mode-map, that key is bound to isearch-query-replace and not the usual query-replace. I didn’t want anything like that, though: I wanted my command to be callable via M-x.

2017-02-13

• 11:33 UTC (new) (history) 2017-02-13 Sorting Org entries by most recent activity . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As I mentioned a lot of times, I use Org-mode – and in particular, clocking – very heavily. Sometimes I have this Org entry with a lot of (clocked) subentries, and I’d like to see which ones of them I haven’t touched in a long time – and which ones I’ve been working recently. I wanted to ask on the Org mailing list whether it was possible, but – taught by experience – I decided to check in the manual first.

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