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2019-02-17

• 07:08 UTC (new) 2019-02-17 Inserting the current file name at point . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It is not uncommon to issue some command to Emacs and find oneself in the minibuffer with the need to insert the name of the current file. A typical example would be firing M-! (shell-command) and realizing that we need to gice the name of the currently visited file as the argument to some command.
• 07:02 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-02-10 Making recover-this-file messages more prominent . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Hi, and thanks! I corrected your formatting. Notice that your approach is going to show all the recover messages in {{{*Messages*}}} every time . . .

2019-02-13

• 15:18 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-02-10 Making recover-this-file messages more prominent . . . . Gregor – OK I tested this: (defun notify-if-recovering-possible () (show-initial-important-messages "recover-this-file")) (add-hook 'find-file-hook . . .
• 14:29 UTC (new) Comments on 2019-02-10 Making recover-this-file messages more prominent . . . . Gregor – The problem may occour whenever visiting a file -- not only at emacs startup. Would it be possible to add it to some hook?

2019-02-10

• 11:26 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-02-04 A simple template mechanism in Elisp . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Wow, thanks to both of you! I didn't know about either. {{{s-format}}} looks really nice, and its from Magnar Sveen, so it's good quality (and more . . .
• 08:21 UTC (new) 2019-02-10 Making recover-this-file messages more prominent . . . . Marcin Borkowski – When I start my Emacs, I visit all my agenda files automatically (of course, I set up the org-agenda-files variable first). This has an annoying side effect.

2019-02-04

• 20:55 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-02-04 A simple template mechanism in Elisp . . . . Zimmy – Hey just wanted to let you know there is a package called mustache.el (https://github.com/Wilfred/mustache.el) this uses a very similar syntax as . . .
• 11:03 UTC (new) Comments on 2019-02-04 A simple template mechanism in Elisp . . . . Fuco1 – There's `s-format` and `s-format-lex` which can even pick up variables from the current lexical scope, that is so boss! :)
• 04:46 UTC (new) 2019-02-04 A simple template mechanism in Elisp . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A long time ago I asked on the Emacs mailing list about a templating mechanism for Emacs Lisp. Of course, there is format. However, I don’t like it as a template engine, since the entries are identified by their order and not names. Then, there is YASnippet and skeleton.el, but they are (probably) better suited for interactive use. (At least Yasnippet can be used programmatically, but it seemed to be too complicated for my needs anyway back then.) Some people suggested other solutions, none of which really appealed to me. So, I set out to write my own.

2019-01-28

• 18:30 UTC (new) 2019-01-28 A simple tip with killing and yanking code . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I often kill (cut) some code and then yank (paste) it somewhere else. Often the level of indentation is wrong in the new place (for instance, something is put from a higher level into a then-branch of a conditional).

2019-01-20

• 19:47 UTC (new) 2019-01-20 Filling and version control . . . . Marcin Borkowski – It has been said a lot of times that when writing some (natural language) text with version control in Emacs, filling is a bad idea. Any change involving adding or deleting a significant number of characters and then refilling can result in all subsequent lines in a paragraph changed, and the diff looks really ugly then. The solution usually proposed is putting each sentence on a separate line, and then just use visual-line-mode to wrap your lines on the screen without putting any hard newlines in. Well, I sort of dislike this idea.

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