In my Portable Operating System post and its comments, I bemoaned the lack of an Emacs port to iOS/ipadOS or at least to the iPad. If I had that, I’d probably still use my MacBook Pro at ...
I’ve long been enamored of the idea of working from anywhere. These days, that seems boringly quotidian but just a few years ago it was a radical idea fiercely resisted by the type of man ...
How would you solve this problem? Given a file of text lines, remove duplicate lines keeping the original order. The first thing that springs to mind is using sort | uniq or perha ...
Every Org-mode user is aware that Org is a huge package stuffed with all sorts of useful functionality. For most of us, a lot of that functionality remains unknown and hidden. Most often ...
Last Saturday at the Vintage Computer Festival East , Brian Kernighan and Ken Thompson sat down and chatted about some Unix history and other interesting events in Thompson’s life. The ...
Over at the Developers Area , Liran B.H has a nice practical guide to understanding AWK . There’s a whole book dedicated to AWK so obviously a single blog post isn’t going to cov ...