Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2021-01-18 02:02 UTC up to 2021-02-17 02:02 UTC

2021-02-13

15:44 UTC (new) (history) 2021-02-13 Copying to clipboard with single spaces . . . . mbork – I sometimes need to transfer some text from Emacs to another program, like a web broswer or terminal. A few weeks ago I thought that it would be nice if I could somehow transform that text – mu use-case is changing double spaces (which I habitually put after every sentence, so that I can use Emacs’ sentence-aware commands) to single spaces (which is what most people expect, and some people treat as the only correct option).

2021-02-06

18:38 UTC (new) (history) 2021-02-06 Unignoring some files by ripgrep . . . . mbork – I use the famous ripgrep tool a lot. Recently, I encountered the following problem. I had some .gitignored files in a repository, but I wanted to include them in rg searches.
18:36 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2020-11-01 The situation in Poland . . . . mbork – 1. I considered deleting the comment above, but after short consideration decided against it, since I decided it may be better to reply to it . . .

2021-02-01

10:07 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2021-01-25 Generating consecutive dates in Unix shell . . . . Anonymous – You don't need the grep, just use the output formatting in date: for d in `seq 0 7 36`; do date -d "2020-01-05 $d days" +"%A%t%d-%m-%Y"; done . . .
08:06 UTC (new) (history) 2021-02-01 Copying symlink targets in Dired . . . . mbork – I have a short but pretty useful tip today for everyone who uses Dired as their main file manager (which I do, of course). When copying symlinks using dired-do-copy (bound to C by default), Dired copies them as symlinks. Giving a prefix argument of C-u makes dired-do-copy dereference the symlink first.

2021-01-25

11:26 UTC (new) (history) 2021-01-25 Generating consecutive dates in Unix shell . . . . mbork – It is no surprise for any regular reader that I have a kind of love-hate relationship with the shell. Bash is one of the most terrible languages out there, but sometimes writing a short shell snippet is just handy. This was the case some time ago, when I wanted to loop over several dates.