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Monthly Archives January 2007

pstree is useful

Well I’ve installed pstree before, but I look it as some eye candy thing: It prints out a nice tree of processes showing the folk sequence.
However today when I was tring to figure out what was going on within my tinder and get kind of lost in the output of “ps -axww”. I found thing […]

¶ Posted 31 January 2007 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

zsh: use function instead of a script

Well in my last post I made a script to setup the title of screen window name and/or terminal title name. Now I want something more: I want a wrapper, if I call a command with this wrapper, it will set the title to the command running, and set the title back to whatever it […]

¶ Posted 21 January 2007 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

settitle and screen

While I work on command line, mostly remotely, there’re two tools I like very much: settitle and screen. The first one change the terminal titles, so I can know which one to choose when switching among my X windows. The other, screen, well, have got lots of articles about it. It enables me to run […]

¶ Posted 16 January 2007 § freebsd ‡ Comments (0)

ee support Emacs keybindings

I know ee is the default editor on FreeBSD, but never use it. The first thing I got a Unix machine is to compile Emacs on it.
However on the FreeBSD cluster I don’t want to waste the resource. So I’ll need to find some replacement. Jed is not available either. The good thing is, ee […]