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2025-09-01

• 19:11 UTC (new) (history) 2025-09-01 Differentiating between C-c C-c and C-c C-k . . . . mbork – Some of the habits I use Beeminder for are maintaining a journal and weighing myself. The way I do these things is that I have a few capture templates with a nonempty :after-finalize property set to a lambda which sends a datapoint to Beeminder. The problem is, it also sends its datapoint if I press C-c C-k, effectively canceling the entry. How to make it not do so?

2025-08-25

• 05:41 UTC (new) (history) 2025-08-25 Counting Org mode headlines . . . . mbork – One thing I need pretty often is to be able to count Org mode headlines in the subtree I’m in. It’s a bit surprising that Org does not know how to do that, but this is Emacs, so fixing it should be very easy, right? Indeed, it is

2025-08-18

• 16:25 UTC (new) (history) 2025-08-18 Cutting clips from videos with Emacs . . . . mbork – I often want to show someone a clip from a video. When that someone is sitting next to me, I can just seek the right place in the video and hit “start”. But what if not? What if I’d like to upload the clip somewhere, or maybe even email it? Or just I don’t want to search for the right place, or risk showing too much of the video (which might contain spoilers, for example)? Now, the first answer that comes to my mind is to extract the clip to a separate video file and play that instead. Of course, if you know me even a bit, you won’t be surprised that I’d like to do that from within the comfort of Emacs.

2025-08-11

• 15:37 UTC (new) (history) 2025-08-11 Using Eldoc to show entities with given uuids in the echo area . . . . mbork – This is the culmination of my series of posts on customization variables, timestamps, ElDoc, PostgreSQL and interacting with potentially unreliable external processes via stdin and stdout. All the time, my goal was to be able to show the database row corresponding to a uuid when the point is on that uuid. Since most of the hard work was already done in the preceding six posts, this one will be rather short (not including the code itself).

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