Marcin Borkowski: Recent Changes

Updates in the last 90 days

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2024-05-20

17:21 UTC (new) (history) 2024-05-20 Org-clockify . . . . mbork – A long time ago I mentioned that we use Toggl in the company I work for. Being the (sole) Emacs user in the company, I (of course) use Org mode clocking features, so I wrote a simple integration for Toggl. In the last few weeks, I played around with another time-tracking tool, Clockify. (Don’t get me started on the name, which is horrible to search for.) Of course, again I decided that I need to bridge the gap between Org mode and Clockify, and a simple global minor mode was born. It is rather bare-bones, but this is exactly what I needed. Feel free to expand it if your needs are greater.

2024-05-04

07:59 UTC (new) (history) 2024-05-04 Pretty printing SQL . . . . mbork – I work with PostgreSQL on a daily basis, and I often share queries with my teammates. I like to show them nicely formatted queries instead of the mess I sometimes write;-). A bit surprisingly, I had troubles finding a nice SQL pretty-printer/formatter.

2024-04-27

16:51 UTC (diff) (history) 2024-04-27 Emacs everywhere . . . . mbork – add categories (minor)

2024-04-22

05:53 UTC (new) (history) 2024-04-22 Next-Error-Follow mode . . . . mbork – A few weeks ago I wrote about Emacs’ Follow mode. It turns out that searching for follow-mode on my blog reveals an old post about Ibuffer which is very short and unfortunately a bit misleading. It seems that the mention of Follow mode there was really meant to mean Next-Error-Follow mode. It is a completely unrelated, but also useful concept.

2024-04-15

17:23 UTC (new) (history) 2024-04-15 Improving recenter-top-bottom and reposition-window . . . . mbork – If one can be a fan of an Emacs command, then I am a huge fan of recenter-top-bottom (C-l) and reposition-window (C-M-l). I use them all the time to see the context of what I’m editing at the moment. However, they are not always that useful. They are rather crude – recenter-top-bottom only has three “settings”, as the name suggests, and reposition-window has only two (it either puts the first line of a function, or the first line of a comment preceding the function at the top). As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I sometimes work with rather long functions – and sometimes I am in the second of two shorter ones, but I want to see the first one, too. Also, I don’t only edit code – I edit prose, too, where paragraph play the role of functions, and Org files, where there are even other structural elements – headlines, tables and source blocks in addition to paragraphs, for example. I decided to write a variation on the theme of reposition-window, which – instead of putting the first line of the function I’m in at the top, it tries to put the first line of a “section” I’m in at the top.

2024-04-08

06:30 UTC (new) (history) 2024-04-08 Even more Magit tips . . . . mbork – Almost five years ago I wrote a short post with some Magit tips. Well, why not write some more? Magit is slowly but constantly evolving, and recently I discovered something very useful I didn’t even know existed.

2024-03-18

16:52 UTC (new) (history) 2024-03-18 Follow mode . . . . mbork – It is a fairly common opinion that a function should not be larger than your screen. The reality, though, is often different. And even if your functions are shorter, you may want to see more than one at a time. The problem is that our screen are usually not that high. (My laptop gives me 66 lines of text with normal font settings.) You can have an external monitor rotated vertically (I have that at work to see as much of the logs of the application I’m working on as possible), but Emacs gives us another solution – the Follow mode.

2024-03-14