tkbe

I don’t seem able to memorize the list of format characters for the date filter, maybe because the documentation lists them in alphabetical order. I’ve created the cheat sheet below with an attempt at semantic grouping…

I just stumbled upon the AJAX APIs Playground (http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/). It’s a site with only one purpose: interactive examples of how to use Google Ajax APIs. Better, by far, than countless pages of documentation

I've been finding myself in a tricky situation a lot lately: I'm programming along, and suddenly I realize that the thing I'm writing really should be factored out and named with a variable.

"whoops, I'm going to refer to this employee again... I should have written:"

What to do? Should I finish the line I'm on and then insert a line above (from experience I know my memory is so bad I'm likely to have forgotten by the time I get to the end of the line); or should I navigate up, insert the line and then try to find my way back to where I was.

What I really needed was to be able to press C-return and magically be transported to a fresh, new, blank and properly indented line above my point. Then I could use the standard C-u C-spc to get back to where I started... After a couple of hours of reading the fine manual, here's what I came up with:


(defun insert-and-indent-line-above ()
  (interactive)
  (push-mark)
  (let* ((ipt (progn (back-to-indentation) (point)))
   (bol (progn (move-beginning-of-line 1) (point)))
   (indent (buffer-substring bol ipt)))
    (newline)
    (previous-line)
    (insert indent)))
 
(global-set-key [ (control return) ] 'insert-and-indent-line-above)


it brought me great satisfaction (even though I realize there is probably a much simpler and more elegant way to do this).