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    How does the n function write to the file? Don't you mean something like a echo "$*" rather than UUOC? How does it incorporate the date/time tag? Commented Jan 27, 2012 at 3:54
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    Not quite useless. It reads from stdin, which is where the user will be typing their note. I did forget the datestamp, though. Commented Jan 27, 2012 at 4:03
  • I don't necessarily agree about the UUOC, but you have you point back for the date... Commented Jan 27, 2012 at 4:28
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    +1 nice defensive coding and rationale against the inevitable typo. Commented Jan 27, 2012 at 8:41
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    Kyle, you obviously don't have a 90MB .emacs.d. Yikes, I need to clean that up. Commented Jan 30, 2012 at 19:35