Tyler Oderkirk's Blog

If you’re using the emacs-snapshot-gtk package (I use the one from Alexandre’s repository) and you want to use emacsclient, make sure you use the version that it supplies at `/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs-snapshot`. If you just run emacsclient, it might confusingly say “emacsclient: can’t stat /tmp/esrv1000-yourhost: Success” Recently at work I’ve been using ediff to compare little pieces [...]

Recently I had trouble renaming a directory with the mv utility. When I was creating a directory to try out the fuse filesystem called sshfs, I accidentally misspelled the name of my new directory: $ mkdir -p sshfs/tylre-unsyncopated In case you don’t know about the -p switch for mkdir, check it out, it can be [...]