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2024-11-25

• 16:06 UTC (new) (history) 2024-11-25 Providing passwords to psql . . . . mbork – Some time ago I embarked on a quest to learn how to provide psql with a password in a non-interactive way (for example, in a script). It turns out that there are quite a few ways to do that, and some ways in which you can’t do that.

2024-11-20

• 16:07 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2024-11-18 Discovering functions and variables in Elisp files . . . . hmelman – I like your discover-public-api method. My usual solution for this is more interactive. I use outline-minor-mode (which I generally enable) and . . .

2024-11-18

• 05:41 UTC (new) (history) 2024-11-18 Discovering functions and variables in Elisp files . . . . mbork – Sometimes I have an Elisp file which I suspect contains some useful functions. Even if the file is well-documented (for example, it belongs to Emacs itself), that does not mean that every function in it is described in the manual. What I need in such a case is a list of functions and variables (possibly also macros) defined in this file.

2024-11-11

• 11:07 UTC (new) (history) 2024-11-11 A situated approach to passwords . . . . mbork – It is a well-known mantra that when writing a web application or a similar thing, you should never store your users’ passwords unencrypted. Well, I’m now going to challenge this idea (a bit).

2024-11-05

• 11:46 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2024-11-04 Persisting variables across Emacs sessions . . . . mbork – I didn't know about savehist, but from a cursory look I can see a drawback – if I explicitly don't want to persist /all/ histories, there is much . . .

2024-11-04

• 07:24 UTC (new) (history) 2024-11-04 Persisting variables across Emacs sessions . . . . mbork – Today, I have a short tip to all people who write Elisp and want to preserve some variable other than user customizations between Emacs sessions. (For user settings, configuring them manually in init.el is the standard way to go.) A classic example would be histories of the user’s entries.

2024-10-28

• 20:16 UTC (new) (history) 2024-10-28 Command alternatives . . . . mbork – Today I’d like to write about an Emacs feature I didn’t know about, even though it’s part of Emacs since quite some time – it appeared in version 24.4, which means it is over 10 years old! It seems I’m not the only one who didn’t know this exists – I’ve just searched my ~/.emacs.d/elpa directory (which contains almost a hundred packages now!), and none of the packages I have installed there uses it, either.

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