Thursday, April 23, 2009

Open stata-se in Emacs

The easiest way to open "stata-se" instead of "stata" in Emacs+ESS is making a symbolic link:

$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/stata10/stata-se stata

"Meta+x stata" should open stata-se.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

rename in linux

Rename all .TXT extension to .txt.

$ rename 's/\.TXT$/\.txt/' *.TXT

Rename all uppercase file names to lowercase file names

$ rename 'y/A-Z/a-z/' *

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Wine: Beautiful Korean fonts

Non-unicode Korean fonts under the linux wine environment may look ugly.

To fix it, copy a font you like under "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unfonts" to "/home/username/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts". That will change the ugly default font to a beautiful un-type font. I personally prefer UnDotum.