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2019-05-11

• 06:27 UTC (new) (history) 2019-05-11 Toggling modeline clock display . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As I mentioned a lot of times, I use Org-mode clocking all the time. Among others, I integrated it with two external services, I have a few dedicated keybindings to it in my Org-mode hydra. It’s no wonder that I work hard to make clocking as smooth as possible.

2019-05-05

• 04:15 UTC (new) (history) 2019-05-05 A few Magit tips . . . . Marcin Borkowski – A month ago I wrote about merging in Git without actually comitting the changes, and mentioned that you probably can’t do that from within Magit. It turned out that I was wrong – in fact, Magit can do it. More recently, I wrote about another Git tip, which is staging an empty file. Then, Nicolas Petton asked whether it’s possible in Magit, and lo and behold – it is, in a quite intuitive (and documented in the docstring) way I just didn’t think about.

2019-04-29

• 18:34 UTC (new) (history) 2019-04-29 Multiple timestamps in one Org headline . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I learned that you can put multiple timestamps under one Org-mode headline, and that it is then displayed in multiple places in the agenda. This can actually be quite useful for things happening more than one time, but when repeating timestamps somehow don’t fit (for instance, things happen irregularly or a finite number of times).

2019-04-21

• 19:47 UTC (new) (history) 2019-04-21 Easter 2019 . . . . Marcin Borkowski – This is the night, when once you led our forebears, Israel’s children, from slavery in Egypt and made them pass dry-shod through the Red Sea. This is the night that with a pillar of fire banished the darkness of sin.

2019-04-15

• 20:39 UTC (new) (history) 2019-04-15 How to make a menu in Emacs . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As we all know, Emacs is so much more than just a text editor. There are quite a few serious applications written on top of it, like Org-mode or mu4e. And many applications – including those two – contain menus (the mu4e main menu or Org-mode’s exporting menu).

2019-04-08

• 20:01 UTC (new) (history) 2019-04-08 Adding an empty file to Git . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As a follow-up to the [[2019-04-01 A trick with Git merging|previous post]], let me mention another Git trick. I often stage files in chunks (or . . .

2019-04-01

• 19:47 UTC (new) (history) 2019-04-01 A trick with Git merging . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I often have a pull request on BitBucket to review and merge, and – as an Emacs user – I find BitBucket’s UI less than ideal. On the other hand, I don’t want to merge only locally and push, since I want BitBucket to generate the merge commit messages, close the PRs etc. Today, I found a neat way to solve this problem.

2019-03-25

• 20:06 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2019-03-18 Free Emacs key bindings . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Re: {{{C-z}}} - I //did// mention it! Re: {{{M-SPC}}} and {{{M-\}}} - I use //both// on a daily basis...
• 20:03 UTC (new) (history) 2019-03-25 Using benchmark to measure speed of Elisp code . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I promised that I’ll write something about measuring efficiency of some Elisp code. Now, my guess was that the string version will be faster for short templates (due to the overhead of creating buffers), but the longer the template, the faster the buffer version. That was right, though for other reasons.

2019-03-18

• 20:42 UTC (new) (history) 2019-03-18 Free Emacs key bindings . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As we all know, most Emacs users customize Emacs in various ways. Usually, at some point in time, the built-in customization options cease to suffice. Then you proceed to writing your own functions and commands. Then, you want to bind them to some keys. The purpose of this post is to list some default Emacs bindings which may be useless for some people, and so could be reused as command-invoking or even prefix keys.

2019-03-11

• 21:05 UTC (new) (history) 2019-03-11 Name-based UUID generation . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago, I had a very specific need. I had some data which had to be anonymized before sending somewhere. For example, assume that you have a CSV file with people’s names in one column, and some (possibly sensitive) data in the rest of the columns. I’d like to change all the names to some (pseudo)random stuff, but with the caveat that if some name appears more than once, it should be changed to the same thing every time.

2019-03-03

• 10:43 UTC (new) (history) 2019-03-03 org-todo-yesterday . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I often run my org-agenda in the morning only to see a task I completed yesterday marked as TODO (but forgotten to be marked as DONE). Often I don’t care about the exact date I completed the task, but sometimes I do, and then org-todo-yesterday comes into play.

2019-02-24

• 07:17 UTC (new) (history) 2019-02-24 Transferring strings to a phone via QR codes . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Sometimes I need to transfer some text (a link, a short note or something else) from my computer to my phone. A usual way is to send it via some cloud-based service – but I don’t really like it, since there is no such thing as cloud – only other people’s computers. While I am not rigorously opposed to such an idea, I do not like putting my personal stuff on somebody else’s machine without any good reason. Another way is to email the thing – but I do not have an email client configured on my phone, and I really want it to stay that way. (I consider email to be a crucial part of my privacy/security. Having it on my phone puts me at significant risk – phones like to be stolen or lost, for instance.) A few days ago, an idea of using QR codes came to my mind.

2019-02-21

• 07:01 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2019-02-17 Inserting the current file name at point . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Thanks, that is nice! Are you aware that after saying {{{!}}} in Dired you can use {{{?}}} and {{{*}}} in the command?

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