Unanswered Questions
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How to combine zsh autocomplete for wrapper function arguments and existing command
I work mostly in gvim and many terminals. Originally, I preferred to open all my files in a single vim instance. To that end I used an alias to open files from my terminals in the current 'vim ...
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Remapping keys that generate multiple scan codes
I have a ThinkPad W540. On its keyboard there are four multimedia keys above the numpad. Two of those keys generate keycodes (and, apparently, scancodes) that correspond to combination of keys, Win_L +...
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Is it possible to find the physical address range of a DIMM?
I note that SMBios Type 20 would help here, but it's optional as of version 2.5 (2006-09-05) pp. 25, L796, and pp. 131, whereas types 16, 17 and 19 are mandatory, but don't quite help.
Physical ...
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agrep with directionally biased penalties
I am using tre-agrep (manpage), an implementation of agrep (manpage), to perform approximate pattern matching. This utility searches for matches based on Levenshtein distance, and the user can ...
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git completion with zsh: filenames with spaces aren't being escaped properly
Git completion:
I'm having difficulty with git's filename autocompletions on my system. I'm using zsh (5.0.5) with git (1.9.3) on OS X (10.9.3). Both zsh and git have been installed via homebrew. (...
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wait bash-builtin burns a CPU at 100 percent
Occurs at least on GNU bash version 4.3.42 x86_64 && GNU bash version 4.3.11 x86_64
I use sleep & wait $! instead of a simple sleep for getting an interruptible sleep by a signal (as ...
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Auto-switching PulseAudio profiles based on input(s) channel count
I'm running audio over HDMI to my receiver, which has a full 7.1 setup connected to it. However, most of the stuff that I listen to has far fewer channels—some is mono, most is stereo, a bit is 5.1. ...
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Completion for the first argument of cd OLD NEW
In zsh, the cd command has a two-argument form: cd OLD NEW changes to ${PWD/OLD/NEW}. With the new-style completion system, zsh is capable of completing NEW: the second argument is completed based on ...
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allow regular users to use network namespaces
I have an architecture using network namespaces (netns). I would like to allow regular users to do some operations in these netns.
I could write a script netns-exec.sh, inspired by this post, ...
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Why are there two different values for the size of a drive and how to reconcile them with device-mapper and LVM?
I have a 1 TB drive attached via USB. It contains an LVM physical volume filling the entire device (without any partition table). When I tried to extend a logical volume by using the entire PV, the ...
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git-upload-pack hangs indefinitely
I have the following call structure:
Jenkins runs fab -Huser@host set_repository_commit_hash:123abc.
set_repository_commit_hash runs git fetch with pty = False.
The child process ssh git@github.com ...
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clipboard not working when connecting via rdesktop to xrdp-sesman
I have a Debian machine with xrdp-sesman setup following way
Xvnc 127.0.0.1:5910
xrdp-sesman 127.0.0.1:3350
xrdp 0.0.0.0:3389
I am connecting to this machine with rdesktop ...
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Sharing your desktop with Google Hangouts, dual monitor and GNOME Shell
I have a laptop with a built-in screen and an attached monitor.
When I start a Google's video Hangout and share my desktop, I would like to be able to share only the attached screen, but I don't know ...
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Open signed PDFs in Linux
We have some PDF files which are secured by a .pfx certificate.
On Windows we can use Adobe Reader to read these PDF files (with previously imported certificate).
I've googled for a long time but I ...
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How to make the zsh “correct” functionality, remember my spell-correction decisions
I have enabled correction (I wouldn't call it autocorrection specifically because of this issue) in zsh by enabling setopt correct in my .zshrc.
Now, when I type dtae in a terminal, I get:
dtae ...
