Frustratingly, I can’t locate it now but I recently saw a post on Mastodon from someone who had great difficulty creating a new file in his ‘Documents’ folder. This struck me as very amusing but I think the point he was trying to express was that his ‘Documents’ directory is a disorganised, unstructured, cluttered mess of files so he is incredibly reluctant and can barely bring himself to compound the issue further by typing ‘vi linux-notes....
birth At the tantalising climax of the last episode, I was invited by Steve for a whistle-stop tour of Emacs. Steve explained that the main reason he used Emacs was pure laziness. Naturally, this immediately got my attention. He explained: ‘I’m lazy. It’s not a fault. It’s a fact. Most decent programmers are lazy. You’re lazy’. ‘Hang on, just a minute ! What do you mean - I’m lazy ?’...
Monochrome screenshot from the wget mailing list featuring Emacs and Supercite circa 1997.
Been using Emacs for years but still learning M-x sort-lines M-x delete-trailing-whitespace I knew about the first command but not the second. Very handy to tidy up an ugly SQL*Plus spool file.