Posted by Tom Moertel
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:38:00 GMT
For those of you who use Emacs, Git, and Fedora Linux, I have just pushed emacs-magit-0.8.2 to updates-testing. (This package brings the wonderful Magit mode for Emacs to Fedora). For now, you can install it with yum by enabling the updates-testing repo:
sudo yum install emacs-magit --enablerepo=updates-testing
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Posted by Tom Moertel
Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:56:00 GMT
Text documents come in two basic flavors: text editor and word processor. In the text-editor flavor, a document is represented by lines of text, each ending with a line break. Paragraphs are separated by two breaks. In the word-processor flavor, there are no line breaks, only paragraphs (because word processors will “wrap” lines of text as you edit them).
If you need to convert from text-editor flavor (lines) to word-processor flavor (paragraphs), here’s a handy Perl one-liner that will do it:
perl -lp00e's/\n/ /g' input.txt > output.txt
If you’re editing in Emacs, you can convert a selected region of text using the same one-liner via shell-command-on-region:
C-u M-| perl -lp00e's/\n/ /g' RET
To go the other way, from word-processor flavor to text-editor flavor, the Unix command-line tools fold(1) and fmt(1) do the job.
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Posted by Tom Moertel
Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:22:00 GMT
Do you use Emacs? Do you use Git? If so, check out Magit, a delightful Emacs
mode that provides a convenient interface to working with Git. Unlike
many VCS modes, Magit is fully Git-centric: It understands the Git
way of branching, staging, committing, history-rewriting, tagging,
merging, pushing and pulling. It even knows about the reflog and has
some git-svn support.
If you’re a Fedora user,
just install the emacs-magit package. The package is currently in
testing, so install it with the following command:
$ sudo yum --enablereo=updates-testing install emacs-magit
One more thing, Fedora users: please don’t forget to provide
feedback on the package. It’s easy:
- Just visit the emacs-magit page in Bodhi
- Click on the package you installed (e.g., the Fedora 9 or 10 flavor)
- Add a comment, selecting “Works for me” or “Does not work” as appropriate
Hack on!
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Posted by Tom Moertel
Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:08:00 GMT
Here are three Emacs tips that I seem to have a hard time
remembering. I’m posting them here to help them stick to
my brain.
Align
Emacs has a number of powerful align commands, but most times the following incantation will suffice to magically align text into neat columns:
C-u M-x align
Repeat
I don’t know how I manage to forget this handy helper, but I do. The following will repeat the most-recently executed command:
C-x z
Continue hitting “z” to continue repeating.
Recursive edit
While you are in the middle of doing something in Emacs, such as
a query-replace-regexp, you can put that something
on hold, do some editing, and then return to what you were doing.
This maneuver is accomplished with Recursive Editing. In short:
C-r (enter recursive edit)C-M-c (exit recursive edit)C-] (abort: exit all nested recursive-edit sessions)
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