Fcron examples for every 30 minutes and once a week

Posted on 10 November 2014 in misc • Tagged with fcron, cron

This is mostly a note for myself, but maybe other people will also find it useful.

There are two types of jobs I'm going to talk about here. They are jobs to be run at regular intervals and jobs to be run periodically. Regular intervals means every x unit of …


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Offlineimap, Gmail, and Mutt tutorial

Posted on 09 November 2014 in misc • Tagged with email

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A few years ago, I wrote a series of blog posts on offlineimap, mutt, and gmail (Link Here). Since then, I spent some time using the gmail web interface for email and then went back to mutt and used the built in imap. However, I've realized that neither of …


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Tutorial for pandoc citations: markdown to latex

Posted on 31 August 2014 in misc • Tagged with pandoc, bibtex, natbib, tutorial, example

I am trying to move all of my writing over to markdown, and then using pandoc to produce the true target format. Often that is latex, and often there are citations involved. This post will be an example (or two) of dealing with citations in markdown so that pandoc can …


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Increment or decrement visual selection in vim

Posted on 25 August 2014 in misc • Tagged with vim

vim can increment and decrement digits under the cursor with the <C-A> <C-X> bindings, respectively. Go try it out and then come back.

Now that you are back, let's extend this functionality to visual selections. First let's learn a command you can find in :help submatch.

:s/\d\+/\=submatch(0 …

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