this weekend we enjoyed noulipo, a 2 day public meditation on the future of constraints in writing. Organized by Matias Viegener & Christine Wertheim. Sponsored by The Annenberg Foundation and CalArts MFA Writing Program.
Monthly Archives: October 2005
emacs cheat sheet
more geekiness. Moving Around in a Buffer C-p Up one line C-n Down one line C-f Forward one character C-b Backward one character C-a Beginning of line C-e End of line C-v Down one page M-v Up one page M-f Forward one word M-b Backward one word M-< Beginning of buffer M-> End of buffer [...]
global search & replace in vi
something else I can never remember. # vi global search & replace 1,$s/69.55.231.3/69.55.239.116/g replace a string in every file in a directory careful, it’s recursive! find ./ -type f | xargs perl -pi -w -e ‘s/hi/aloha/g;’
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upgrading freebsd ports
seems like I’m always needing to look this up. so here. 1. Backup your port data cd /var/db tar cvfz var.db.pkg.tgz pkg Check port db pkgdb -F Updating all the ports /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -ra [ put this line in /etc/make.conf fix that buggy perl_version thang THIS WILL NEED TO BE UPGRADED WITH EACH NEW PERL VERSION! [...]
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