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2010 Jun 09. Mounting Windows shares in Linux userspace
A current project has forced me into the clunky world of Windows, to verify that a Python program compiles and runs there just like it runs under Linux. Instead of trying to port my entire development environment to Windows — which includes two decades of customizations and a small empire…
2010 Feb 24. Opening tabs remotely in Google Chrome
Now that I use Google Chrome almost exclusively, I miss the fact that a running Firefox instance could be controlled from the command line so that Emacs could call for a new tab when I clicked on a URL. It would run a command something like this: firefox -remote 'openURL(http://example.com/,…
2009 Feb 25. Installing Python packages for Emacs with virtualenv
The only rough edge I have found amidst the otherwise exceptional advice on Ryan McGuire's Enigma Curry blog is that Ryan recommends installing Python packages with: $ sudo easy_install package_url This means that his Emacs configuration — which, very generously, he has started maintaining as a project on github so…