Month: December 2017
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Emacs: visiting symlinks – the variable find-file-visit-truename
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/File-Aliases.html What a surprise! I would have liked to use that functionality for a long, long time – not only in the context of a file under VC. How often did my symlinks get disconnected erroneously / accidentally from their link targets?
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Emacs: Wdired: operating on files by editing the Dired buffer
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Wdired.html Why didn’t I know of such a basic and useful feature for so many years???
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a crumble is a dish of British origin that can be made in a sweet or savoury version
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumble I enjoyed a few very delicious sweet ones, that got prepared by the late Konstantin Münz.
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editing a file living in a GitLab repository within a browser window (“Edit File”), trying to display the changes between the working version and the last committed one
MediaWiki lets me do that, GitLab does not. If you switch back and forth between several tasks, sometimes you need a tool showing you the differences between the original text (you started with) and your current text. If I try to abandon such an editor window (resp. browser tab), MediaWiki asks me, whether I really…
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installing Perl’s resp. CPAN’s CryptX as Debian package
“Perl module that provides a self-contained crypto toolkit” https://metacpan.org/pod/CryptX — CryptX on CPAN https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libcryptx-perl the “sid” AKA “unstable” AKA “bleeding edge” version is probably the one you are after download all 3 files mentioned there (source package) – actually (“in an ideal world“): dget the .dsc file, that will download all of them and check MD5…
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GitLab Flavored Markdown, lists, indentation, number of spaces
https://forum.gitlab.com/t/bullet-points-only-have-two-levels-of-indent/1436 They expect 3 spaces for proper indentation.
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xacobeo – graphical interface for running XPath queries
https://metacpan.org/release/Xacobeo https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Xacobeo/bin/xacobeo https://packages.debian.org/sid/perl/xacobeo
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how to make MediaWiki connect to a MySQL server on the same server through a socket in a non-standard location
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgDBserver This is what I searched for in order to find the above article: mediawiki mysql socket
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where do all those .gitkeep files come from? I did not create them
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7229885/what-are-the-differences-between-gitignore-and-gitkeep So … I certainly have not ever created any .gitkeep in order to get Git to keep track of an empty directory. I rather suspect, that one of the utilities created them for me. I will observe that and report here later.
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GNU Coreutils: realpath: print the resolved file name – has a quite a few neat command line options
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/realpath-invocation.html https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Realpath-usage-examples.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_Core_Utilities_commands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Core_Utilities