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by eeperson 16y ago
In git you can use .git/info/exclude if you need to ignore stuff but don't want to commit a .gitignore.
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by eeperson 16y ago
3. Ajax support seems pretty common but Comet seems pretty rare. Most major Javascript libs seem to have little or no support for Comet. Also, server side support for Comet seems even rarer. 4. Declarative syntax for dependencies seems mu
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by eeperson 16y ago
The line at end of the Wikipedia article puts an interesting spin on this story: Later, when asked whether he would do what he did again, he replied frankly, "No, I would not." This makes me see it as more a cautionary tale than i
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by eeperson 16y ago
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-03/msg002... Does anyone know if the concurrency and lexbind features are still planned to be part of Emacs 24?
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by eeperson 16y ago
There is an intention to make lexical scoping the default in Emacs. Maybe even as soon as the next version (Emacs 24).
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by eeperson 16y ago
You can get the alt key to function properly in the terminal. Look here: http://tungchingkai.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-send-alt-x-i...
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by eeperson 16y ago
It seems like a lot of these should have leading slashes so they only match the root directory and not any file with that name.
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by eeperson 16y ago
Probably the most useful commands that aren't mentioned in most tutorials are: ctrl-[ can be used in place of ESC . repeats the last edit
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by eeperson 16y ago
Git has a limited version of that built-in, 'git gui blame' (this is also integrated with the 'gitk' tool). However, that doesn't let you jump quickly to different places in history. If you need some thing that shows you the file 'blame'
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by eeperson 16y ago
How useful the REPL is depends on the language. Some languages have a much richer REPL related toolset than others. I'm guessing your experience with REPLs has been with a language such as Python or Ruby which doesn't have a very rich too
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by eeperson 16y ago
Doesn't this do roughly the same thing as the Debian alternative system? EDIT: I should have read your link first. It appears that your system allows for greater isolation and the ability to relocate different versions.
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by eeperson 16y ago
This is one of the advantages of using 'aptitude' to install software rather than 'apt-get'. Removal takes care of unused dependencies. Beware, mixing 'apt-get' and 'aptitude' used to cause some issues, such as trying to remove software th
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by eeperson 16y ago
They decided to make some backwards incompatible changes after they had already announced 2.8 as the next release. They would have made it 3.0 but everybody was already calling the next release 2.8.
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by eeperson 16y ago
My understanding is that this release is partly intended to fix some of the earlier design mistakes before it gains too much popularity. They wanted to do this now rather than later to prevent a python3 scenario.
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by eeperson 16y ago
Using Clojure actually isn't that hard. It is basically the same amount of difficulty as any other compiled language. You can basically take any text editor and do a standard 'write->compile->run'. However, most people that are f