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2022-08-27

• 15:56 UTC (new) (history) 2022-08-27 Screenshots from Emacs . . . . mbork – Some time ago there was a discussion on the Emacs mailing list about making screenshots from Emacs. From one of the posts there I learned about the x-export-frames function, whose existence is fascinating for me. It basically allows you to make a screenshot of your Emacs frame without ay external program, in one of several formats (including pdf and png). Jean Louis provided some simple code in that post which I reproduce here (with minor changes). The frameshot command takes a picture of your current Emacs frame, puts is in the frameshot-directory directory and moves the point to its line.

2022-08-22

• 15:22 UTC (new) (history) 2022-08-22 The Emacs range package . . . . mbork – Some time ago I discovered something really cool. It turns out Emacs has a package named range which can be used to operate on, well, ranges of integers. The truth is, it supports much more: arbitrary finite sets of integers.

2022-08-15

• 05:54 UTC (new) (history) 2022-08-15 Personal accounting in Ledger . . . . mbork – As I mentioned a few times, I use Ledger to keep track of my personal (actually, family) finance. While I definitely do not use the full power of Ledger (I don’t really need to), I find the very basic concept of double-entry bookkeeping extremely simple and elegant (in a mathematical sense).

2022-08-08

• 15:56 UTC (new) (history) 2022-08-08 Copying the current location revisited . . . . mbork – Some time ago I wrote about a snippet of Elisp for copying my current location. I’ve been using that snippet all the time, and soon I discovered two of its limitations.

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