Originally written for logtop I just wrote a vt100 screen scraper that listen to a port and serve the screen over HTTP. Basically, you want a top (or logtop ;-) ) to be displayed in your website back office ? But top outputs in your terminal and you don't know how to capture …

If you have a Squid proxy configured on a machine that have no IPv6 connectivity, and try to reach an IPv6 compatible site, you squid will try to reach the site using IPv6 (I use squid 3.1.6 from Debian Squeeze) and will fail without even trying IPv4, displaying …

This is a deprecated article about flymake, you should check for flycheck instead.

Hi! Today we'll see how to highlight syntax errors in emacs, with exemples for C and Python. First you should learn about flymake-mode In a nutshell Flymake is a minor mode to perform on the fly checks …

When you want to replace tab with spaces or vice versa don't use M-% (query-replace) but M-x tabify or M-x untabify. They work on the current selection so if you want it to be applied to a whole buffer, try C-x h (mark-whole-buffer) before to select the whole buffer.

Day two of my serie about emacs, about searching and replacing.

• Function name: isearch-forward
• Typical Key binding: C-s
• How to get help: C-h f isearch-forward

isearch-forward let you type a string to be searched incrementally in the current buffer, successive following C-s will jump to the next match.

• Function name …

I'm starting an 'emacs trick of the day' sequence with:

• Function name: universal-argument
• Typical Key binding: C-u
• How to get help: C-h f universal-argument
• Usage: C-u

Receive a numeric argument that is given to the next called function, when no numeric argument is typed, the value defaults to 4. So …

For those, here on the internet, asking themselves what is this fscking rpc failed: 2 while mounting an NFS, it's possible that the response is here: Your NFS client trying to mount the NFS share will use RPC to communicate with the serveur, il will go like:

> PORTMAP GETPORT(Program …

/!\ this was highly experimental code written in 2011. Today you should NOT use it, just look at it if the subject amuses you. Better take a look at asyncio if you want this kind of tools.

I'll speak about my pipe python module so if you didn't know it, you …

One day I wished I could read PEPs in the tube on my laptop... so I searched for a convenient way to do so, and I didn't found ... So I wrote a very simple shell script you can found here : https://github.com/julienpalard/pep I'm currently packaging it for …

While writing shell scripts you are using a lot of echo but did you think about portability of this simple statement? Can you say what will be diplayed, without testing, on your shell, the following tests:

echo \n \c '\n' '\c' "\n" "\c"
echo -e \n \c '\n' '\c' "\n …