Emacs highlighting part of lines that go over 80 chars

ByEric Ma

How to make Emacs highlighting part of lines that go over 80 chars? I use the whitespace mode: ;; `lines-tail`, highlight the part that goes beyond the ;; limit of `whitespace-line-column` (require ‘whitespace) (setq whitespace-style ‘(face empty tabs lines-tail trailing)) (global-whitespace-mode t) More: https://github.com/zma/emacs-config/blob/master/.emacs Alternatively, you can run highlight-lines-matching-regexp with the expression .{81}. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6344474/how-can-i-make-emacs-highlight-lines-that-go-over-80-chars

How to sort a file by hexadecimal numbers on Linux using sort command?

ByEric Ma

The sort command has a -n option to sort a file by numbers. However, it does not work with hexadecimal numbers. For example, this file: 400000000 __crt0 400000039 __newr0 400001B14 get_my_task_id 400001C14 get_new_task_id 400001582 input_char 40000166E input_q 400001A5D input_q_exit 400002002 main 4000000DB output_char 400001134 output_char_str 40000100C output_id 40000018F output_q 400000614 output_q_digits 400000B7E output_q_hex 400000D3E output_q_hex_j1…

How to get the git commit tree?

ByQ A

How to get a tree-like view of the git commit history? My favorite command line: git log –graph –oneline It will prints a text based graph like (with colors): * b5dc8b9 Merge branch ‘master’ of https://github.com/layerzero/libi0 | | * 7514ef1 revised the README.md a little bit | * 6692428 align size to page for both…

How to fetch a webpage as a mobile browser with curl on Linux?

ByEric Ma

On Linux, how to download a webpage as a mobile browser? You can change the agent of curl to be a mobile browser’s and the remote webserver may be consider the request from a mobile browser: curl -A “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/28.0.1500.12 Mobile/10B329 Safari/8536.25″…

Direct multi-hop ssh connection

ByEric Ma

How to use multi-hop ssh connection without needs to ssh multiple times? As a example, you are connecting to server.example.com through proxy.example.com from laptop.example.com as follows: laptop —-> proxy —-> server 2 possible methods: Method 1: Use the similar method as in Directly SSH to hosts using internal IPs through the gateway. Add this to…

How to rearrange Alt, Ctrl and Win keys on Linux: Win as Alt and Ctrl/Alt as Ctrl

ByEric Ma

How to rearrange Alt, Ctrl and Win keys on Linux: Win as Alt and Ctrl/Alt as Ctrl? On Linux, the Win key is seldom used. Mapping the Alt keys which are close to my thumb is damn convenient for Emacs users. Hence, the keyboard at the bottom line would look like: ———————————————————— |Ctrl|Alt|Ctrl| Space Bar…

How to quickly find out which rpm package provides a command on Fedora Linux?

ByEric Ma

How to quickly find out which rpm package provides a command on Fedora Linux? As an example, we want to find out which package provides the ping command. You can quickly find it out by rpm: $ rpm -qf `which ping` It will give iputils-20121221-2.fc19.x86_64 Alternatively, you can use yum: $ yum provides `which ping`…

Multi-connection multi-part file downloading tools on Linux

ByEric Ma

Is there any good multi-connection multi-part file downloading tools on Linux? wget is great but can only make 1 connection for 1 file. Sometimes, it is too slow on some networks. I use aria2 which supportsmMulti-connection download. aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. Really speeds…

How to print a plain text file to printers from a terminal in Linux

ByEric Ma

How to quickly print a plain text file to printers from a terminal in Linux? You can also use enscript: enscript – convert text files to PostScript, HTML, RTF, ANSI, and overstrikes https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-enscript/ enscript text-file The lp command can print a plain text file to a printer. My favorite command: cat text-file | lp -o…

Ghostscript reports “Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in .setdistillerparams”

ByEric Ma

With the command -dPDFSETTINGS=/print for ps2pdf, I got: GPL Ghostscript 9.10: Set UseCIEColor for UseDeviceIndependentColor to work properly. Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow in .setdistillerparams make: *** [pdf-print] Error 255 How to fix it? I use this workaround: ps2pdf -dColorConversionStrategy=/LeaveColorUnchanged -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer psfile.ps from this. An alternative is to use -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress.