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2021-06-21

• 09:28 UTC (new) (history) 2021-06-21 fx - a terminal JSON viewer . . . . mbork – Some time ago I had a need to dig (interactively) into a deeply nested JSON. While I know and use json-navigator, sometimes I’d like to have something similar in the terminal. After a short search, I found fx, which is similar to jq, but has an awesome interactive mode.

2021-06-14

• 19:35 UTC (new) (history) 2021-06-14 New behavior of yank-pop . . . . mbork – I have another short Emacs tip for today. Quite recently (well, in November 2020, which – given the scale of Emacs history – is pretty recently, but I only learned that a few weeks ago or so) the yank-pop command (bound to M-y by default) acquired a very cool new feature. Its main use is (and has been for decades) to cycle through the kill-ring right after the yank command (C-y). It was one of the things that made Emacs a sophisticated editor and not a toy. Of course, M-y did nothing if pressed not immediately after C-y or another M-y, since what it could do then? Well, it’s obvious, isn’t it?

2021-06-07

• 03:52 UTC (new) (history) 2021-06-05 Emacs Lisp book update – what the book is going to look like . . . . mbork – About a month ago I decided to write about the book on Emacs Lisp I am writing. I also made it available on Leanpub where you can download the first chapter and pay me to get the (roughly) 40% of the book that is already written. This post is the first in a series of updates I plan to publish about once per month. Read on if you are curious about the process of writing a book, or want to learn if it is for you, or want to actually help me to write it! First of all, I’d like to thank all the people who trusted me so far and say that I was surprised and humbled to have so many of you. Now I feel even more encouraged to stick to my writing schedule.

2021-05-30

• 16:55 UTC (new) (history) 2021-05-30 Extending subed-mode . . . . mbork – Some time ago I mentioned the subed-mode, Emacs mode for editing srt files with movie subtitles. Well, I’ve been using it regularly for more than half a year now, and I used it to translate more than 20 hours of material into Polish, spending more than 100 hours on it altogether. (And before you ask, this is – again – a hobby/amateur project for my family, not even published.) I think I can safely say that I know quite a bit more about subed-mode now – for instance, I now know that it supports playing the video and actually syncing it to the subtitle at point (with some margins, of course), which is absolutely great. It had some shortcomings, though.

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