Thursday 28 August 2008

Cheer leading for creative writers

a thing of rare beauty

Monochrome screenshot from the wget mailing list featuring Emacs and Supercite circa 1997.

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in praise of Emacs

Been using Emacs for years but still learning 
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Unix for lazy people

I am a very efficient lazy person. I don't like to type seven characters when two will suffice. I think Unix is a fantastic development environment. However, the overly long, verbose commands irritate me slightly. So I use the following aliases and shell functions...

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Emacs as a Web 2.0 application

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