mask of the robtasm (Posts about emacs)

clipping chrome

rob mahurin — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 19:56:31 GMT

In the spirit of the clipboard, the tool for the clipboard on Chrome is wl-copy, from the package wl-clipboard.

On MacOs and perhaps some Linuxes, it may be save-buffer.

markdown made easy

rob mahurin — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:46:55 GMT

The installation for Jason Blevins' markdown-mode is so easy that I thought I wouldn't bother to write it down … but then I looked in my note-taking place and I couldn't find it.

It's as simple as M-x package-install RET markdown-mode RET.

Everybody is using a package manager these days, and it's great.

long lines at the table

rob mahurin — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:40:32 GMT

Working in an emacs buffer where I don't want to give up whitespace-mode but I have a line that has to be long. The magic is

(setq-local whitespace-line-column 100)

the clipboard

rob mahurin — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:12:33 GMT

Reminded today of Windows's clip.exe, which reads its standard input into the Windows paste buffer. That's the way to copy Linux/WSL stuff to Windows. Mousing in the terminal window works ... sometimes. But Emacs takes over the mouse, and the terminal copies my whitespace-identifying characters.

The magic is M-| clip.exe, which runs shell-command-on-region.

manic monday

rob mahurin — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 13:19:23 GMT

A busy day today. Quick lists --- but on my phone, in Markor, a delightful Android text editor.