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2023-07-22

• 04:45 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-22 Org Clive - a new Org-mode-based blogging engine . . . . mbork – As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I am now working on a new Org-mode based blog engine. I am proud to say that it’s now ready (even though it’s not yet feature complete), and you can use it, too!

2023-07-15

• 04:26 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-15 Drawing ASCII art charts in Emacs buffers . . . . mbork – Two months ago I wrote about how I track my weight in Emacs. I am still doing it, and dieting works quite well, but I had one problem with my setup: I really wanted to have a graphical representation of my weight data – in other words, a chart. After quickly assessing the existing solutions (the chart.el library included in Emacs and Org Plot, I decided that I need something else. I don’t want to have to run an external program (in this case, gnuplot), and I want to have a simple ASCII art scatter plot (but neither a bar chart nor just an additional column containing a histogram of the values in the table.

2023-07-08

• 13:20 UTC (new) (history) 2023-07-08 Finding a common prefix of a set of strings . . . . mbork – Some time ago I needed a very specific thing. Given two strings, I wanted to find their longest common (initial) substring. For example, given abc and abd, I wanted ab. I thought that Emacs Lisp must have something like this already, and I wasn’t wrong. It turns out there are even two functions which can do that!

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