via https://medium.com/@mrdoro/fast-translation-with-google-translator-and-mac-osx-817e32233b7a

via https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/spotlight-use-package-a-declarative-configuration-tool

via http://www.freshblurbs.com/blog/2013/06/22/github-multiple-ssh-keys.html#tldr

I started getting errors from the TRAMP Emacs package because I was using fish as my default shell, and it does not recognize certain standard syntax elements (such as && to separate commands), and Emacs runs subcommands under the default shell. I fixed this by:

1. Changing my account's default shell back to `/bin/bash`
2. Changing my Terminal.app preferences to run `/usr/local/bin/fish` when a shell opens, instead of the default login shell:

   

I needed to copy a directory between two git repositories while preserving its history. I found some good instructions at http://gbayer.com/development/moving-files-from-one-git-repository-to-another-preserving-history/, which got me started, but I figured out a way to avoid having to move all the files into their directory again (lines 5-6 in Greg’s instructions) by reversing the filter to remove everything I don’t want instead of only including the directory I want. Here are the steps (the idea is the same as in Greg’s post, so please read that to get the explanation, I’m only listing the commands here for reference):

via http://www.codinginahurry.com/2011/02/05/three-levels-of-git-config/

git config user.name "John Doe"

git config --global user.name "John Doe"

git config --system user.name "John Doe"

via https://dev.evernote.com/doc/articles/polling_notification.php

via http://www.studiopress.com/design/google-font-combinations.htm

1. Add "winsymlinks" to your CYGWIN environment variable. For example, in my .bashrc I have the following:
   export CYGWIN="nodosfilewarning winsymlinks"
   
   This makes cygwin create symlinks differently, in a form that is understood both by it and by Windows.
   This is the main step, and the only one if you just need access from the shell and from the Windows explorer. However, emacs still sees those symlinks as regular .lnk files. To fix this, follow the next step.

I recently posted a snippet to perform hierarchical copying in cfengine3. As I was attempting to integrate this mechanism into my copy of cfengine's COPBL, I realized that no additional functions or body components are needed. Thanks to cfengine3's list expansion, all you need to do is include in the existing copy promise the list containing the desired list of suffixes to try. For example:

Becomes:

While this looks at first sight even longer than the original (and of course, in this case you could just specify ${sys.flavour} directly in the copy_from statement), it is much more flexible. Instead of defining different sections for each class that you want to handle (e.g. suse_9, redhat_5, etc.), the same code is able to copy the corresponding binary directory for any operating system, you just have to put the corresponding bin.* directory in your repository.