Is there a single person out there who can remember all of the features they have configured in their Emacs?
I sure can’t 😄(Joy)😮(Surprise)😢(Sadness).
Am I the only one?
Is there a single person out there who can remember all of the features they have configured in their Emacs?
I sure can’t 😄(Joy)😮(Surprise)😢(Sadness).
Am I the only one?
My Emacs is like a kitchen that I’ve perfected over the years to prepare just about every kind of meal.
The meals are configurations for example of the Go language, SML, OCaml, APL, IRC, and writing LaTeX, Pandoc, or Org-Mode. Some of the meals have been around and will stay around for a long time. Some of the meals are short lived, and welcome to come back. Either way I’m glad to be able to cook in such a great kitchen.
There are always improvements to the kitchen. They are welcome because it can always get better. At this point there aren’t going to be any major changes to the kitchen itself unless I have some major changes in the way that I think. It works how I like to work. Everything is where I like it to be. It is easy for me to add new things and remove them in a pleasant manner. Most importantly it is a reflection of my cognitive landscape, so I am happy there.
Once you are at home in Emacs you will welcome new meals and say farewell to some, but you will always have a kitchen that you love. That is why the “Perfect Emacs Configuration” is never to be found and never will be: we are all unique and see the world with with a curiosity that is all our own.
Fortunately we have a lot of similarities so good ideas spread fast and they bring great ease. Of even greater fortune we have a lot of differences so we can grow and learn from perspectives and preferences so totally different from our own. It is delightful and refreshing to see a cognitive landscape different from our own. That is where the fun is: going to new lands and being welcomed to learn about how people see the world. Our Emacs configurations are a sweet reminder of the joy and creativity that comes with computing. Emacs is the selfless and benevolent home where that kitchen lives.
Long live Emacs—our eternal home of the joy and creativity of computing, shared learning, and flat out fun.
My favorite one-pot method recipe:
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:
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.
This recipe lets you run Docker within Docker.
It is possible now.
FORMUFIT seems to provide everything that you need to build useful and pleasant PVC pipe based projects conveniently and at reasonable price. Something that I couldn’t figure out how to do using off-the-shelf stuff at the hardware store.
You might have first used UNIX a long ago but if you haven’t then here is x86 port to try it for the first time pretty easily on a virtual machine.
Start exploring using commands cat ~cd
ed
diff
egrep
file
pwd
size
.
cd /etc
pwd
file passwd
cat passwd
UNIX’ers: how do I use less
or more
to preview a file?
Thank you Greg for the big correction here
… 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)
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.