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Today I got tired of always looking up, where all these little files named “_show.rhtml”, “_list.rhtml” and their ilk are living, and patched the emacs mode line to include the last element of the current buffer’s directory. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ModeLineDirtrack describes something very similar, but it repeats the whole mode line definition of mode-line-format, which might break…
There are quite some options for doing live syntax checks from within Emacs. A good one is using Steve Yegge’s relatively new js2-mode for javascript editing which has a javascript parser built in. But that is not what this blog post will be about. The other option is to use flymake with some command line…
I just stumbled across Varnish, an HTTP cache and modern alternative to Squid. The config file is compiled into a shared library at startup, logging is done in-memory and paging out unused pages to disk is left to the OS. With squid, an unused cached page is explicitly written to disk by the proxy, while…