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emacs table-mode, how to print, …
Rendering an emacs table as HTML table, possible for further intermediate processing – like splitting … – quite useful!
So far I have always printed an emacs table as fixed-font text document – sort of ugly, but still useful.
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emacs: in table-mode, how do I change the face used for cells?
- https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2394/in-table-mode-how-do-i-change-the-face-used-for-cells
I find it very useful and necessary to know immediately, that a table got recognised by emacs as such. Emacs shows it in colours then.
With the default settings I find the background blue1 (together with foreground gray90) sometimes / often “far too heavy”, let’s say: a contrast far too exhausting for my eyes. Really!
But what is a “less heavy” pair of foreground / background settings for table-cell? “For the time being” I am using plain “black” for the background through emacs customisation (“table-cell” in my “custom-file“).
The StackExchange article explains you everything, you need to know, and also points you to the related customisation buffer.
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Colors.html – “Colors for Faces” – running list-colors-display is faulty for me currently (2019-08-27), so I have to find another way of listing the availables colours
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rgb.txt resp. …
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X11_color_names
foreground background default black “light grey” “dark blue” 2019-08-27: too difficult snow1 gray70 2019-08-27: works black white 2019-08-27: works tomato white -
horde / IMP / New Message / Save Draft – a shortcut in “dynamic mode”
I know, there is a shortcut for “Save Draft” in “basic mode” (Accesskey D) – but my preferred mode is “dynamic mode” – and Accesskey D does something else in Chrome on the Mac – it deletes a character on the right side of the text cursor.
In file editors I save the current state using a keyboard shortcut, in horde I can not do that, that’s a pity – it’s quite important for me – every now and then horde logs me out and I loose the e-mail I have been writing.
At least there is an advanced feature to get drafts auto-saved every minute.
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Emacs: visiting symlinks – the variable find-file-visit-truename
What a surprise! I would have liked to use that functionality for a long, long time – not only in the context of a file under VC. How often did my symlinks get disconnected erroneously / accidentally from their link targets?
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Emacs: Wdired: operating on files by editing the Dired buffer
Why didn’t I know of such a basic and useful feature for so many years???
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a crumble is a dish of British origin that can be made in a sweet or savoury version
I enjoyed a few very delicious sweet ones, that got prepared by the late Konstantin Münz.
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editing a file living in a GitLab repository within a browser window (“Edit File”), trying to display the changes between the working version and the last committed one
MediaWiki lets me do that, GitLab does not.
If you switch back and forth between several tasks, sometimes you need a tool showing you the differences between the original text (you started with) and your current text.
If I try to abandon such an editor window (resp. browser tab), MediaWiki asks me, whether I really want to do so. I like that very much.
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installing Perl’s resp. CPAN’s CryptX as Debian package
- “Perl module that provides a self-contained crypto toolkit”
- https://metacpan.org/pod/CryptX — CryptX on CPAN
- https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libcryptx-perl
- the “sid” AKA “unstable” AKA “bleeding edge” version is probably the one you are after
- download all 3 files mentioned there (source package) – actually (“in an ideal world“): dget the .dsc file, that will download all of them and check MD5 values
- https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/devscripts/dget.1.en.html
- adapt the minimal release specified by debhelper within debian/control
- run “dpkg-source -x” on the .dsc file
- https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/dpkg-dev/dpkg-source.1.en.html
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I hope I will be able to use this as a template for other CPAN modules (like DBD::Oracle, …).
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GitLab Flavored Markdown, lists, indentation, number of spaces
They expect 3 spaces for proper indentation.