Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates since 2021-06-25 12:23 UTC up to 2021-07-25 12:23 UTC

2021-07-19

17:56 UTC (new) (history) 2021-07-19 Sorting crontab chronologically . . . . mbork – On one of the computers I work on there is a pretty extensive crontab file, with many tasks carefully scheduled so that they run every day in a specific order. No wonder I would like to be able to sort all the crontab entries chronologically, i.e., in the order of the time they should be called. (I don’t care about the dates, since most of these tasks are scheduled to run every day.) The problem is that (for some mysterious reason) the crontab file format requires putting the minutes first and the hours next.

2021-07-12

21:18 UTC (new) (history) 2021-07-12 Counting business days . . . . mbork – A need that I sometimes have is to know how many business days are there in a given month. It is not difficult to code a suitable function, but it is probably worth knowing that you really don’t have to: Emacs has you covered! Well, almost…

2021-07-03

17:10 UTC (new) (history) 2021-07-03 Emacs Lisp book - contents . . . . mbork – As you probably know by now, I am writing an intermediate textbook on Emacs Lisp, entitled Hacking your way around in Emacs. Last time I mentioned that I’d like to write something about the contents of the book. So, here it is. (Keep in mind that things may still be subject to some changes, though – the newest of them came to my mind today in the morning!)

2021-06-28

18:03 UTC (new) (history) 2021-06-28 Going to where you were when visiting a file . . . . mbork – I don’t close my Emacs very often. Basically, I start it right after I turn my computer on and log in, and usually the only reason for me to close Emacs is when I update the system (given that use Arch Linux, this is actually pretty often, say once every week or two). Usually, after a few days’ worth of work, I have most of files I work on open, and I’m accustomed to just switching to a suitable buffer to continue something at the point I left it a day (or several days) ago. Of course, I lose that information when I close Emacs.