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2022-11-19

• 19:55 UTC (new) (history) 2022-11-19 Streamlining my workflow with Magit and BitBucket . . . . mbork – We use BitBucket at our company, which is some source of frustration for us. One of the issues we have with BitBucket is that it seems to lack a decent CLI tool. This means that in order to e.g. create a pull request, you go to the website, click a few times and only then confirm that a PR is really what you want. Well, after some time I learned that it’s not that bad. When you git push your changes, Git (on the command line) responds with the URL you need to go to create a pull request out of the branch you just pushed. (This is most probably achieved via post-receive or some other Git hook.) Nice. Well, of course I don’t use Git from the command line – I use Magit. So naturally I wanted Emacs to extract that information for me and open the URL in the browser. It turns out that it was easier than I thought.

2022-11-14

• 20:43 UTC (new) (history) 2022-11-14 Doubling backslashes . . . . mbork – Today’s post is not meant to be very useful to most people, but it serves as a demonstration of a point (well, that, and a bit of advertisement;-)). However strange it may sound, a few days ago I have a very atypical need. I needed to move some LaTeX code to a JSON file. This meant that all the backslashes had to be doubled, of course – LaTeX code is full of them, and they need to be escaped in JSON. Obviously, query-replace​’ing backslashes with double backslashes is easy, and query-replace only operates on the region when it is active, but I wanted to make sure I didn’t replace them twice by accidentally marking too much. So – partly as an exercise, I guess – I decided to write a command to replace every backslash in the region by two backslashes, but only if it was a single one.

2022-11-07

• 07:18 UTC (new) (history) 2022-11-07 Counting working days again . . . . mbork – Some time ago I wrote about counting business days in Emacs. I mentioned that I’m going to revisit that topic in the future. Well, the future is now! Recall that the need I had was to know how many business days there are in any given month.
• 07:17 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2022-10-24 Playing videos from the last position in mpv . . . . mbork – Ah, this looks pretty interesting! Thanks, I'll definitely check that out!

2022-10-29

• 10:16 UTC (new) (history) 2022-10-29 A bash helper for prefixed scripts . . . . mbork – Let’s say we have some project we are working on. The project involves a number of shell scripts for various tasks, like versioning, building, testing, deploying etc. It is useful to have these scripts in your $PATH while working on that project. There are several ways to do that. One way is to add the directory containing them to $PATH, but only for the time we’re working on the project. Another is to use things like npm run and the scripts property of package.json (and I’m fairly sure many other languages feature similar facilities). Recently, I found yet another one, which is pretty useful and extremely cool at the same time. I prefixed all the scripts with the project’s (abbreviated) name, say dw-​. So, assume I have scripts like dw-version.sh, dw-build.sh, dw-test.sh etc. Now I can permanently add the directory containing them to my $PATH, since I (kind of) namespaced them and they won’t get mixed with any other project’s scripts (nor general use utilities). The only trouble that’s left is that typing dw- each time is a bit tedious. Well, Bash to the rescue.
• 10:15 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2022-10-03 Converting words and sentences to identifiers . . . . mbork – Correct, though in my use-case the phrase always starts with a letter, so I didn't need that.

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