From the daily archives: Tuesday, March 29, 2011

How to use emacs to replace Mac carriage returns (the ^M line endings, and that includes even the “stubborn” ones!)…

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The below information was shamelessly copied, word for word, from http://mike.kruckenberg.com 🙂

Changing end-of-line Mode in Emacs (replaces ^M line return)

Every now and then I run into this. I export CSV data from Excel and find that when trying to use it in other places the line-returns aren’t quite right and unix tools […]

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Help! Unable to automount my usb flash disk!

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PROBLEM: On certain Linux distributions removable media (USB flash drives, CD’s,…) are auto-mounted by default and all users can read and write to them (if media is writeable of course). On others, inserting a removeable media results in an error message similar to Failed to mount “200GB Volume”, e.g. an error message from your file-manager […]

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