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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.

2024-03-11

• 05:35 UTC (new) (history) 2024-03-11 More psql tricks . . . . mbork – As I mentioned many times, I am a PostgreSQL fan. I wrote several times about psql, the default PostgreSQL terminal client. A few days ago I gave a short talk in my company about the virtues of psql, and in preparation for that I looked at its manual (again). As is often the case, I discovered a few hidden gems I didn’t know about.

2024-03-02

• 05:09 UTC (new) (history) 2024-03-02 Some tips about Emacs keyboard macros . . . . mbork – Some time ago I had to create some rather repetitive code. These days I often use multiple cursors for such things, but for some reasons this time I decided to go the traditional route and use the built-in keyboard macros. Here’s the catch, though. When you want to use keyboard macros and insert an (incremented) number for every occurrence, you can type f3 (kmacro-start-macro-or-insert-counter) while recording the macro. What I needed, though, was to insert that number twice for every execution of the macro.

2024-02-05

• 05:45 UTC (new) (history) 2023-02-05 From the kill ring to a register revisited . . . . mbork – Two weeks ago I wrote about my little command to move the topmost (or some other) kill ring entry to a register. It turned out that this particular post – which I thought was rather niche – spurred more interest than apparently more useful posts I have. Go figure.

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