This week’s “tip” is not so much a tip as it is a bit of background on how Emacs works. A bit of extra knowledge that will hopefully help you in your Emacs journey. Although you may not realise it, many of your interactions with Emacs consist of calling functions. Keybindings and menu items call […]
Read full case studyAfter enabling diff-hl-mode by Github user dgutov any lines with uncommitted changes in a (version controlled) file will be highlighted in the margin. In large files, for example, this makes it easy to spot the sections that you have edited. Here is how I enable diff-hl-mode for all files: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Enable diff-hl-mode (https://github.com/dgutov/diff-hl) to […]
Read full case studyNext week, I will be back at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam to teach the EL016 Linux for Scientists course, which is part of the NIHES MSc programme in genetic epidemiology. Running for two full days, the course aims to teach students with a background in the life sciences to work on a (remote) […]
Read full case studySeveral lint tools and Git pre-commit hooks require that files end with a newline character. This is easy to achieve in Emacs through the require-final-newline variable. By default this variable is nil, but when set to t Emacs will automatically add a final newline (if it isn’t already there) when saving a file. I have […]
Read full case studyThe past few weeks have been terribly busy with all kind of end-of-year things, so I didn’t manage to find time for posting new Emacs tips. Sorry about that 😇. So, without further ado, here’s a new one. This week’s tip is about pasting with the mouse. By default, Emacs acts like most other applications: […]
Read full case studyThis week’s tip is about balancing delimiters like parentheses, brackets, quotes, etc. The built-in electric-pair-mode does the following then enabled (copied from the manual, emphasis mine): Electric Pair mode, a global minor mode, provides a way to easily insert matching delimiters: parentheses, braces, brackets, etc. Whenever you insert an opening delimiter, the matching closing delimiter […]
Read full case studyTramp is a built-in Emacs “package” that allows you to edit files on remote servers with your local Emacs instance. But it doesn’t only do that, it can also be used to edit files as root via sudo. To achieve this use C-x C-f as you normally would to open a file. However, instead of […]
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In a little more than two weeks from now I will be at the ErasmusMC university medical centre to teach the “Linux for Scientists” course. The EL016 course, as it is officially called, consists of two full days of teaching and practice and is scheduled on January 31st and February 1st, 2023. It is part […]
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In two weeks’ time, on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th of January, I will be two full days at the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam. I will be teaching the course Linux for Scientists for students of the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES) MSc programmes.
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On Monday March 5 2018, I will be teaching at the NIHES course “An Introduction to the Analysis of Next-Generation Sequencing data” at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. In this one-week course students will learn the basics of how NGS data is generated and how to analyse this type of data. PolyOmica’s contribution to […]
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One of the great things of ZFS is its built-in compression capability. Enabling compression on a ZFS filesystem allows you to save a significant amount of space, especially in a field like ours where one sometimes needs to use large plain text files. It is completely transparent: the user doesn’t notice anything. Well… unless they […]
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Basic Linux command line skills are essential for researchers working in omics science and other fields revolving around big data. In collaboration with the Genetic Epidemiology group of the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, NL, we developed a course called “Linux for scientists” which has been running since 2011. Linux command line skills are […]
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I recently had to send a couple of ZFS file systems from one server to another, both running Ubuntu Linux 16.04. Since both servers were in the same trusted local network, there was no need for encryption. As various other websites will tell you, the fastest way to transfer data over a local network is […]
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