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The Call of the CLI

For some reason, I always find myself wanting to run the command-line emacs. However, this proves an issue when it comes to certain control characters, such ...

ansi-term vs shell: mongodb

So, I’ve been messing about with MongoDB lately. Its pretty cool. You start the server then run the mongo command, which takes you to a repl environment wher...

RE Builder “query replace this”

I use M-x re-builder a lot. Its an interactive regular expression builder that really helps build proper regexps and is an excellent learning tool. However,...

Improving ansi-term

I use ansi-term quite a bit. Why leave Emacs to have a terminal? However, there were a few issues I had with ansi-term that were quite annoying. However, be...