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2019-12-07

• 10:06 UTC (new) 2019-12-07 Dollar-quoted strings in Bash . . . . Marcin Borkowski – As we all know, bash is a terrible but ubiquitous thing. Nowadays I usually avoid writing bash scripts as much as I can – but sometimes I really need to do something bash-y, for instance in the command line. One thing I encountered some time ago is putting newlines into bash strings, e.g. in parameters. My use case was that I wanted to make a Git commit from command line with a multiline commit message.

2019-12-01

• 22:00 UTC (new) 2019-12-01 A simple trick with selecting rows created today . . . . Marcin Borkowski – For today, I only have a short but useful (at least for me) trick. When I test some new feature involving saving something to the database (PostgreSQL in my case), I often want to see what was actually written into the database. For that purpose, the best query is a short one.
• 21:58 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-11-04 Starting Emacs with custom configuration directory . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Wow, thanks! I'll definitely look into this!

2019-11-30

• 20:24 UTC (diff) Comments on 2019-11-04 Starting Emacs with custom configuration directory . . . . alphapapa – Hi Marcin, With a bit of scripting, it's easy to set the user-emacs-directory at runtime, before any packages are loaded, which avoids having to . . .

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!

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