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 […]
Tag: gnu
So thanks to Justia, I’ve spent the last week at Mountain View, or what is known as the Silicon Valley area. Next week I’ll be attending the Drupal Conference, Drupalcon 2010, in San Francisco, California. Its been great working and hanging out in this area, specially when things in Mexico are not as easy these […]
The emacs personalization file (dotemacs) is a very important resource for every Emacs user. Typically found at ~/.emacs, this file contains elisp code all the personalization of Emacs to accommodate each user. Its so important that it basically represents your Emacs “personality”. To loose your .emacs file can mean loosing a lot of hours of […]
I’ve been the web editor for the ACM Crossroads student magazine for the past 4 years. Since I’m no longer a student, the time has come to step out of that position and let someone else take the job. So since issue 16.2 the ACM Crossroads website is in charge of Malay Bhattacharyya of the […]
I’d like to share my bookmarks from time to time. I think sometimes random browsing can be very fruitful and sometimes even productive. This week on my delicious bookmaks, I’d like to share: Red Hat Magazine | A guide to GNU Screen Very useful to use when needing to run long processes through an SSH […]
The Mac OS X slogan I’ve heard from several mac fanboys is “it just works”. Well, being a GNU/Linux user for quite some time and coming to OS X, that is not the case for me. There’s a lot of little things that “just don’t work” on my particular usage. Recently I’ve been given a […]