(Happiness) Who Do You Need To Be A Hero To?

If you have something that helps you be happy in life, and you want to share it with the world, then you need a detailed and structured plan for making it happen.

Put it on paper under these headings:

  • Vision
  • Skills
  • Resources
  • Incentive
  • Action Plan

If any heading is a little light, then dig into it and fill it out before moving forward.

Share it with your friends and family. Make it happen.

You might call it being a hero, or good, good friend.

Who do you need to be a hero to?

(Emacs+Org-Mode) Why Not Bind `delete-forward-char'?

Thank you Greg for the big correction here <2018-01-12 Fri>

The documentation for delete-char suggests that delete-forward-char ought to be used for interactive use instead of delete-char

(global-set-key (kbd "C-d") #'delete-forward-char)

Find All Locations Of A Binary Using `type’ not `which’

I can’t find the git 2.10 binary so I run

which git

/usr/local/bin/git

Excellent, found it.

And then I check it’s version to verify I am looking at the right version

/usr/local/bin/git –version

git version 2.21.0

Oops that isn’t what I wanted.

There must be another git getting loaded earlier in the search path.

Here is how to find out where all copies of git live

type -a git

git is /usr/local/bin/git
git is /usr/local/bin/git
git is /usr/bin/git

Look for the right git at version 2.10

/usr/local/bin/git –version
/usr/bin/git –version

git version 2.21.0
git version 2.14.3 (Apple Git-98)

I want the second one.

That is how to track down the location of a binary file on macOS that appears multiple times in the search path.

(PDF) Re-OCR A PDF Using PDFPenPro

Sometimes I want to recreate the OCR layer in a PDF using PDFPenPro but the menu item is greyed out.

Here is how force a re-scan:

  1. Hold down COMMAND+OPTION
  2. And then click Edit → OCR Document

If you open the menu first like I did, then the menu item remains greyed out, oops 😮😢.

PDFPenPro is in the top five list of best software that I’ve ever used. Check it out.