Tagged: Emacs

Shell Nuggets: Musing on Dates 0

Shell Nuggets: Musing on Dates

Nigh ever day I happen across some gem tucked away in the opaque vista of the *nix command-line shell.   While attempting to contrive the proper arguments for a date command interpolation, the following editorial injection from its GNU info entry caught my fancy. 28 Date input formats ********************* First, a quote: Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, asymmetrical and disjunctive so as to make coherent mental reckoning in time all but impossible. Indeed, had some...

Emacs Menubar Buffers List Format 0

Emacs Menubar Buffers List Format

And now for something completely different.  No depression updates this time.  A new “Hacking” category and a code tip on getting the full filenames in the menubar buffers list of Emacs. I use Emacs 23.1.50.1 on my desktop, mostly for the kinds of things (quick copy and pasting and scratch pads) vim’s modal model doesn’t make altogether easy.  I’m not a vehement advocate of either editor, but of both. ;; Copied from /usr/share/emacs/23.1.50/lisp/menu-bar.el.gz (defun menu-bar-update-buffers-1 (elt) (let* ((buf (car elt))...