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2021-07-12

• 21:18 UTC (new) (history) 2021-07-12 Counting business days . . . . mbork – A need that I sometimes have is to know how many business days are there in a given month. It is not difficult to code a suitable function, but it is probably worth knowing that you really don’t have to: Emacs has you covered! Well, almost…

2021-07-03

• 17:10 UTC (new) (history) 2021-07-03 Emacs Lisp book - contents . . . . mbork – As you probably know by now, I am writing an intermediate textbook on Emacs Lisp, entitled Hacking your way around in Emacs. Last time I mentioned that I’d like to write something about the contents of the book. So, here it is. (Keep in mind that things may still be subject to some changes, though – the newest of them came to my mind today in the morning!)

2021-06-28

• 18:03 UTC (new) (history) 2021-06-28 Going to where you were when visiting a file . . . . mbork – I don’t close my Emacs very often. Basically, I start it right after I turn my computer on and log in, and usually the only reason for me to close Emacs is when I update the system (given that use Arch Linux, this is actually pretty often, say once every week or two). Usually, after a few days’ worth of work, I have most of files I work on open, and I’m accustomed to just switching to a suitable buffer to continue something at the point I left it a day (or several days) ago. Of course, I lose that information when I close Emacs.

2021-06-21

• 09:28 UTC (new) (history) 2021-06-21 fx - a terminal JSON viewer . . . . mbork – Some time ago I had a need to dig (interactively) into a deeply nested JSON. While I know and use json-navigator, sometimes I’d like to have something similar in the terminal. After a short search, I found fx, which is similar to jq, but has an awesome interactive mode.

2021-06-14

• 19:35 UTC (new) (history) 2021-06-14 New behavior of yank-pop . . . . mbork – I have another short Emacs tip for today. Quite recently (well, in November 2020, which – given the scale of Emacs history – is pretty recently, but I only learned that a few weeks ago or so) the yank-pop command (bound to M-y by default) acquired a very cool new feature. Its main use is (and has been for decades) to cycle through the kill-ring right after the yank command (C-y). It was one of the things that made Emacs a sophisticated editor and not a toy. Of course, M-y did nothing if pressed not immediately after C-y or another M-y, since what it could do then? Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it?

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