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The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

The continued diary of an experienced C++ programmer. Thoughts on C++ and other languages I play with, Emacs, functional, non functional and sometimes non-functioning programming.

Timo Geusch

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<p>Unfortunately, Digg announced that Digg Reader is shutting down tomorrow. While I never used Digg Reader as my main RSS feed reader – I’ve got a paid subscription to <a href="https://feedly.com/">Feedly</a> – I was very happy to use it as a backup reader for those feeds that weren’t always that great at adhering to the RSS feed standard (I’m looking at you, <a href="https://bringatrailer.com/">bringatrailer.com</a>) as it was more forgiving when it parsed feeds.…

Timo Geusch

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<p>I will show you how to enable logging in the MongoDB Java driver and also how to set and change the log level. The <a href="https://mongodb.github.io/mongo-java-driver/">official mongoDB Java driver</a> uses <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/logging/package-summary.html">java.util.logging</a> as its default logging framework or sl4j if the latter is present. It can be very useful to enable logging in the MongoDB drivers to trace how the driver is interacting with…

Timo Geusch

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<p>A quick follow-up to my <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2017/12/13/running-emacs-inside-emacs/">last post where I was experimenting with running emacsclient from an ansi-term</a> running in the main Emacs. Interestingly, you can run Emacs in text mode within an ansi-term, just not emacsclient:</p>

Timo Geusch

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<p>I’m experimenting with screen recordings at the moment and just out of curiosity decided to see if I can load and edit a text file inside the main Emacs process from inside an ansi-term using emacsclient.</p>

Timo Geusch

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<p>I’ve had the Linux Subsystem for Windows enabled for quite a while during the time it was in Beta. With the release of the Fall Creators Update, I ended up redoing my setup from scratch. As usual I grabbed Emacs and a bunch of other packages and was initially disappointed that I was looking at a text-mode only Emacs. That might have something to do with the lack of an X Server…</p>

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