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2017-04-01

• 06:04 UTC (new) (history) 2017-04-01 compilation-in-progress . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I use AUCTeX pretty heavily; in fact, it was one of the first things I ever used in Emacs, way before I learned any Elisp or did any serious (or less serious) programming. Some time ago I noticed that sometimes (and I’m not sure what triggers this, though I have some suspicions) the word Compiling will stay in the modeline forever. It bugged me a bit, so I asked about it on the mailing list, and Oleh Krehel (of Ivy and Lispy fame) shared this simple solution: (setq compilation-in-progress nil). It’s not really a clean solution, but it works.

2017-03-27

• 19:06 UTC (new) (history) 2017-03-27 Moving to a certain line on the screen . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A short tip: if you want to quickly move the point to the top, center and/or bottom of the current window, press M-r once, twice or thrice. And or the added bonus, a numeric argument lets you place the point at any line (without scrolling the text). Quite handy (sometimes).

2017-03-18

• 20:56 UTC (new) (history) 2017-03-18 Deleting all instances of a LaTeX environment . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today, someone asked on the AUCTeX-devel mailing list about a way to delete (or comment out) all the instances of certain environment. Here’s my solution.

2017-03-13

• 20:42 UTC (new) (history) 2017-03-13 Ibuffer . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some day, when you have half an hour to spare, press M-x ibuffer RET and then h. Then take your jaw from the floor and put it back in place again.

2017-03-04

• 17:06 UTC (new) (history) 2017-03-04 Bookmarking directories in Eshell . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A friend of mine showed me a nifty trick, basically bookmarking directories in bash. While this is nice, I often use Eshell, and I wanted a similar thing there. (Notice that while Emacs bookmarks do work in Dired, they won’t let you bookmark a directory in Eshell!) Bonus points for sharing the bookmark database (which is basically a directory called ~/.marks/ containing symlinks to bookmarked directories).

2017-02-26

• 17:14 UTC (new) (history) 2017-02-26 other-window-or-switch-buffer . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I decided to bind f6 to other-window. I lived happily with that binding, but then something struck me. My f6 key was completely useless when I had only one window in the current frame. What a waste! So, I decided to code this.

2017-02-19

• 12:50 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2017-02-18 Using isearch-string on exit from isearch . . . . mutbuerger – There is a locally defined `isearch-mode` that is set to " Isearch" whenever an isearch command is called. `isearch-done` sets it to nil again. . . .

2017-02-18

• 16:05 UTC (new) (history) 2017-02-18 Using isearch-string on exit from isearch . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Recently, I wanted my function, which asks the user for some string, use the isearch term as the default. That’s easy – the variable isearch-string holds the term searched (note that it may be a plain string or a regex!). The problem was, I wanted that to be the default only when I invoked my command from isearch (sort of what M-% does when called from within isearch). The way M-% does its magic when invoked during isearch is simple: in isearch-mode-map, that key is bound to isearch-query-replace and not the usual query-replace. I didn’t want anything like that, though: I wanted my command to be callable via M-x.

2017-02-13

• 11:33 UTC (new) (history) 2017-02-13 Sorting Org entries by most recent activity . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As I mentioned a lot of times, I use Org-mode – and in particular, clocking – very heavily. Sometimes I have this Org entry with a lot of (clocked) subentries, and I’d like to see which ones of them I haven’t touched in a long time – and which ones I’ve been working recently. I wanted to ask on the Org mailing list whether it was possible, but – taught by experience – I decided to check in the manual first.

2017-02-05

• 17:05 UTC (new) (history) 2017-02-05 Opening parenthesis at the line beginning . . . . Marcin Borkowski – If you press C-M-x or other commands depending on Emacs recognizing defuns in an Elisp buffer, and weird things happen...

2017-01-22

• 08:38 UTC (new) (history) 2017-01-22 Current headline or path in Org-mode . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today I have a short Elisp/Org-mode tip, in case you need something like this (I did a few weeks ago).

2017-01-16

• 10:15 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2017-01-14 I'm now using the right dictionary . . . . Hermógenes Oliveira – Hello. I don't know if you are aware of the DICT Development Group at dict.org or the wonderful dictionary-el emacs package which provides an . . .

2017-01-14

• 19:55 UTC (new) (history) 2017-01-14 I'm now using the right dictionary . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Almost one and half years ago I read an interesting post on Irreal, and – as a great fan of the English language – I immediately went to the original post it mentioned. I did not regret it; I return to that post from time to time, since it is so beautiful, even poetic.

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