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Change your default browser to Chromium in Debian and Emacs

The web browser is nowadays the most important and frequently used tool in a computer. Recently I’ve been using more the Chromium browser than Firefox, on in Debian’s case, Iceweasel. This is for several reasons: – Better memory management (doesn’t eat up all my RAM) – Extensions are also available for Chromium – Faster browser […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source Programming & Web Development

command line tools for web developers

Many people are typically afraid of the terminal. Yes, it might look scary for some, retro for others, but for the practical busy programmer, the terminal is the best tool you can have. Lately for my day job, I’ve been required to work with lots of static web pages, as I’ve mentioned on several of […]

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Quick search and replace recursively in multiple files

Lately I’ve been working with a lot of static HTML files with lots of repeating text structures. In the past I’ve talked about editing multiple files with Emacs. This approach works very well when the number of multiple files and text matches in each file is manageable or you need to make sure every match […]

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Emacs tip: How to edit multiple files on several directories in less than a minute

Recently I had to edit multiple files (239 in total) scattered in a bunch of directories and subdirectories. Here’s a quick and safe way to do it. What I had to do was add the Google Analytics script snippet to a part of a website that was being maintained by a pair of <your favorite […]