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2019-11-25

• 20:41 UTC (new) 2019-11-25 Using inotifywait to generate files on the fly . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Sometimes I want to edit some file which is then transformed to some kind of “target” format, suitable for watching. It might be a LaTeX file, a Markdown file converted to HTML, or a HTML file converted to PDF (as it was the case for me some time ago).

2019-11-20

• 17:56 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-11-11 Diffing buffer fragments . . . . Mat tPrice – Interestingly, at least on my system, if `select-enable-primary` is set to t, this command will fail when used as described because `kill-ring-save` . . .

2019-11-17

• 10:28 UTC (new) 2019-11-17 Diffing buffer fragments, continued . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Apparently, my last blog post about diffing buffer fragments sparked a small discussion on Twitter. Most comments fell into one of two categories: some people wanted to use ediff (which I explicitly mentioned I didn’t want), and some people complained about the temp files (which do not bother me that much). Well, it turns out that I really did not have to create the temp files after all!

2019-11-13

• 16:04 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-11-11 Diffing buffer fragments . . . . Joost – Why not use `ediff-buffers`? That way you can avoid the temp files, just create a pair of temp buffers.

2019-11-12

• 02:39 UTC (new) Comments on 2019-11-11 Diffing buffer fragments . . . . Anonymous – > There is the little-known compare-windows command, which ... has a > major drawback of not displaying any “report” ... sometimes I’d like . . .

2019-11-11

• 18:49 UTC (new) 2019-11-11 Diffing buffer fragments . . . . Marcin Borkowski – While working on a certain project, I needed to check the differences between two text fragments. We all know and love diff, but it operates on files, and what I had was two fragments of two files (or sometimes even of one file) which I wanted to compare. There are a few solutions to this problem, but they seemed too complicated for me.

2019-11-06

• 17:21 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-11-04 Starting Emacs with custom configuration directory . . . . Marcin Borkowski – That's a nice idea, but what about a situation when you want to have two Emacs instances running at the same time: one "workhorse", normal one and . . .
• 07:50 UTC (new) Comments on 2019-11-04 Starting Emacs with custom configuration directory . . . . Anonymous – Hello, perhaps I did not understand what you are trying to do but why do not use .emacs.d as a link whose destination you could change according the . . .

2019-11-04

• 20:12 UTC (new) 2019-11-04 Starting Emacs with custom configuration directory . . . . Marcin Borkowski – The usual thing people are told to do when debugging/isolating Emacs problems is to say emacs -Q, that is, start Emacs without reading in any configuration. Sometimes, however, this may not be a good idea. When there is some problem with packages, however, we may actually want to load some things, like a minimal set of packages if we suspect they do not work together. Of course, what we don’t want is changing our configuration.

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