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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # To be called by a GNU screen keybinding | |
| screen_copybuffer_file="${HOME}/tmp/screen-copybuffer" | |
| case "$OSTYPE" in | |
| [Dd]arwin*) | |
| pbcopy < "$screen_copybuffer_file" |
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| #!/bin/tcsh -f | |
| # For use by a terminal emulator as its startup script. | |
| # Sets `DISPLAY' to `localhost:0.0' and launches/re-attaches `screen'. | |
| echo ":0.0" > "$HOME/tmp/display" | |
| switch ( "$OSTYPE" ) | |
| case "darwin": | |
| set SCREEN='/opt/local/bin/screen' | |
| breaksw | |
| default: | |
| set SCREEN='/usr/bin/screen' |
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # Did caller pass in an epoch time to compare? | |
| if [ $# = 1 ]; then | |
| "${HOME}/bin/test-host-times-match" "$1" || echo 'WARNING: Time out of sync' 1>&2 | |
| fi | |
| # Primes the (possibly new) screen session with a (possibly new) remote DISPLAY | |
| echo "${DISPLAY:-:10.0}" > "${HOME}/tmp/display" |
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| ;; An Org-mode capture template for scheduling a phone call to a BBDB contact. | |
| ;; Shortcut key: c | |
| ;; Target location: Under headline "Incoming" in file "~/org/ToDo.org". | |
| ;; Default tags: @phone | |
| ;; The function `ph/capture-bbdb' (see below) handles BBDB contacts with either a name or only an organization. | |
| ;; | |
| ;; To use this capture template, first mark the whole of the specific phone number you | |
| ;; want within the contact record in the *BBDB* buffer, then hit C-c t c. | |
| ;; | |
| ;; Prompts for: |
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| Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)") | |
| signal(error ("Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)")) | |
| error("Capture abort: %s" (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)) | |
| byte-code("\301\302!\203\nebugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)") | |
| signal(error ("Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)")) | |
| error("Capture abort: %s" (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)) | |
| byte-code("\301\302!\203\nebugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)") | |
| signal(error ("Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)")) | |
| error("Capture abort: %s" (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)) | |
| byte-code("\301\302!\203\nebugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)") |
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| # Standard-repo requirements: | |
| # w, awk, head, mktemp, split, grep, ck-list-sessions, sed, getent, cut | |
| # TODO Check whether awk can't exit immediately after first match | |
| ACTIVE_USER=`w --no-header -s | awk '/ :0 / {print $1}' | head -1` | |
| [ -n "$ACTIVE_USER" ] && { | |
| echo "$ACTIVE_USER" | |
| exit 0 |
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| ;;; vorbiscomment.el --- Edit comments in Ogg Vorbis files | |
| ;; Copyright (C) 2003 Jesper Harder | |
| ;; Author: Jesper Harder <[email protected]> | |
| ;; Created: 19 Aug 2003 | |
| ;; Version: 1.1 | |
| ;; Location: <http://purl.org/harder/> | |
| ;; Keywords: multimedia, data |
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| ;; Adapted from | |
| ;; http://muublog.blogspot.com/2018/01/for-various-reasons-i-needed-to-sync.html | |
| (eval-and-compile | |
| (require 'dash)) ; for `-lambda' | |
| (defcustom ph/shadow-file-mappings nil | |
| "Each key is the regular expression matching the file(s) | |
| that should be copied, and the value is the target directory." | |
| :group 'files |
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| WARNING: Setting locale failed. | |
| Check the following variables for correct values: | |
| LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 | |
| LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 | |
| Next version 1.3.4 | |
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| D-Bus addresses: (#<Unix socket address: @"/tmp/dbus-cuENar4m4a">) | |
| <INFO> [21:28:37] next remote.lisp (initialize-instance :after remote-interface) - | |
| Bus connection name: :1.1 | |
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