Emacs A Better Emacs Remote Editing Workflow I often use emacsclient(1), from a shell, to quickly visit a nearby file, instead of switching back to Emacs and drilling down through directories. I wanted some version of this that works over SSH. Here is my solution.
UNIX What is the umask? The umask, is one of those UNIX fundamentals that can feel mysterious. Most of us eventually wind up with a vague notion of how it influences the permissions of new files and directories, but how exactly does it work?