Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2023-09-23 05:41 UTC up to 2023-10-23 05:41 UTC

2023-10-14

05:04 UTC (new) (history) TODO 2023-10-14 Avoiding repetitions . . . . mbork – Deleted TODO_2023-10-14_Avoiding_repetitions
05:03 UTC (new) (history) 2023-10-14 Avoiding repetitions . . . . mbork – I write a lot of prose. That does not mean I’m good at it nor very creative – I haven’t written any novels or even short stories. By “prose” I mean writing in a natural language (mostly English nowadays). In fact, most of the writing I’ve done in my life is technical in nature (usually either about technology or about mathematics). And (as you obviously know) I’m also a technology geek and an Emacs user. An immediate thought is: how to make Emacs help me write better?

2023-09-30

19:17 UTC (new) (history) 2023-09-30 Confirming potentially dangerous actions . . . . mbork – A common situation is when I want to do something on my computer with possibly destructive consequences, like deleting a file, truncating a database table etc. One common approach to making sure this won’t happen accidentally is to require the user to press y or even type yes (this is what Emacs does with its y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p functions). Some time ago I had a similar need in a shell script. I was afraid, however, that even requiring the user to type yes is not enough – it is easy to condition oneself to type a three-letter word without much thinking, after all.