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Are questions about emacs lisp programming on-topic here?
Since vi/vim questions are considered on-topic here, it would seem fair that Emacs questions would be as well. According to the /emacs tag statistics, we already have a bunch of them, so there's no ...
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Why was there no election since 2011?
I wonder why there was no moderator election since 2011?
See: http://unix.stackexchange.com/election
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the current moderators do a bad job or so. It's just that in ...
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Is “Why problem X exists” duplicate of “How to solve problem X”?
This question: Why cat, grep and other commands can't understand files starting with minus sign? was marked as duplicate of this question: How do I delete a file whose name begins with ...
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Can the question I asked, put on hold, be marked as answered?
I asked the question What version of Linux Fedora to install, and how to do it?. I was going to edit it, but I think the answers/comments given are already sufficient for me to go ahead. I would mark ...
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Change url to nix.stackexchange.com
The point is that this portal tries to answer all questions related to Unix as well as Linux. For that reason, the url of U&L should be nix.stackexchange.com. Can this be changed?
EDIT:
The ...
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Synonymize /unicode with /utf-8
Unicode isn't a synonym of UTF-8, but it is a superset. Since UTF-8 is the de facto standard representation of Unicode in the unix world, most questions about Unicode on this site involve UTF-8. While ...
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How to handle questions that will never get an accepted answer?
Consider for example ZFS on Linux gets corrupted on export. This is not a duplicate of meta What do we do about abandoned questions, with a correct answer never accepted?, because this is about ...
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Is it appropriate to ask askers to accept an answer
Occasionally people will thank for an answer in the comments and write that the suggestion worked for them. Is it acceptable to ask them to accept the answer or upvote it instead, as seems preferable ...
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Release schedules
Is it appropriate to ask a question about the release schedule of some Linux distributions? Generally, that information is easy to find but in my case, not so much. I am looking for ...
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Use of the Oracle tag
I was looking at the questions tagged with an oracle tag and they seem to fall into two categories:
A question related to Oracle Enterprise Linux
A question regarding an issue with Oracle database ...
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1answer
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Merge network[-]manager tags
There are two tags for NetworkManager: networkmanager and network-manager The former is more popular but I personally like the latter. Either way these should be merged.
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What is that “on-hold” state?
I see the "on hold" state on some questions that would have been closed in the past.
What is this (new?) state, why was it introduced?
Can I vote to close in that state?
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Will someone tell me if this answer (mine) is too “cheeky”?
Recently I answered a question that I came across while browsing the unanswered list. Basically I said that the tool that the user was using was now deprecated (even though it wasn't when he asked the ...
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Recover access to unregistered account
My old account was 23640, but suddenly I'm on a new account (42687). I had a bunch of questions on my old account; how do I recover it?
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Should this site get a new look?
The look of this site has been designed with commandlines in mind. However, in most modern Linux distro's you don't even need to use them.
But on the other side, many people here use the commandline.
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