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From: Mike Jones on 29 Nov 2009 07:20 Responding to Glyn Millington: [...] >>> Where is it wrong? >> >> The title page, to begin with. >> >> > Twaddle - just to repeat in case some defenceless newcomer happens upon > this thread, the Slackbook is a good source of basic information for > those setting up and running Slackware. This is true. It is indeed a very useful resource and recommended reading for anybody just starting out with Slackware. Its even useful if you think you know what you're doing. ;) -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Dario Niedermann on 29 Nov 2009 08:02 Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: > No. Use Nano, and make sure its a regular component. Its been around long > enough to be a standard and does not take up any significant space on a > distro disk. Its *NIX standard in operation, ROTFL. > and, most importantly, its almost a no-brainer to use. I'm sure your post was a no-brainer to write. -- > head -n1 /etc/*-{version,release} && uname -moprs Slackware 12.2.0 Linux 2.6.27.7-crrm i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 GNU/Linux
From: Dario Niedermann on 29 Nov 2009 08:05 Lew Pitcher <lpitcher(a)teksavvy.com> wrote: > Vi is one of those Unixisms that Slackware maintains. As does the Single UNIX Specification. If it doesn't come with vi, it's not Unix. Or Unix-like. -- > head -n1 /etc/*-{version,release} && uname -moprs Slackware 12.2.0 Linux 2.6.27.7-crrm i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 GNU/Linux
From: Dario Niedermann on 29 Nov 2009 08:42 Aaron W Hsu <arcfide(a)local> wrote: > Grant <g_r_a_n_t_(a)bugsplatter.id.au> writes: > >>I met vi same time I met unix -- there's less than a dozen keystrokes to >>be learned for basic editing, I don't see the hassle in remembering that. >>And one's left little finger soon streches the extra inches needed to >>reach the escape key ;^) > > Or you get yourself a keyboard that has the ESC key in a convenient > location. Or you swap ESC and CAPSLOCK... -- > head -n1 /etc/*-{version,release} && uname -moprs Slackware 12.2.0 Linux 2.6.27.7-crrm i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 GNU/Linux
From: Theodore Heise on 29 Nov 2009 10:31
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:20:47 +0000 (UTC), Sylvain Robitaille <syl(a)alcor.concordia.ca> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:50:04 -0500, Theodore Heise wrote: > >>> Things like reformatting lines quoted from a netnews article, >>> without first removing the preceding quote (">") characters, >>> then adding them back after formatting (highlight the lines in >>> question, then "gq"). >> >> Pico does this too. > > I think you might have misunderstood my example, or else I don't > understand how to accomplish the same in Pico. I think it's the latter (but could be wrong). Works for me, though admittedly with v4.10. > ...I just opened a file in pico (UW-Pico-5.04, as installed > with Slackware-13.0), and see the following on the bottom of the > terminal: > > [ Read 31 lines ] > ^G Get Help ^O WriteOut ^R Read File ^Y Prev Pg ^K Cut Text ^C Cur Pos > ^X Exit ^J Justify ^W Where is ^V Next Pg ^U UnCut Text^T To Spell > > How, given that the above are the only commands apparently > available, do I force the editor to reformat, say the following > text, so that it looks properly formatted? > > >> ... reformatting > >> lines quoted from a netnews article, > >> without first removing the preceding quote > >> (">") characters, > >> then adding them back after formatting > >> (highlight the lines in question, then "gq"). The command ^J should do this, but you will need to call pico with the quote string specified (i.e., pico -Q "> "). As far as I know, it only accepts one quote string, so it *is* limited (with ">" specified, pico won't recognize other characters like "|"). In addition, pico would not reformat the example text you gave because of the multiple leading spaces). On the other hand, it does recognize multiples of the specified character, and variations with single spaces. For example, the following snippets are reformatted by pico with ^J: >> test of the >> multiple levels >> of character >> > test of the >> > multiple levels >> > of character >> > test of the >> > multiple levels Hope that helps. -- Theodore (Ted) Heise <theo(a)heise.nu> Bloomington, IN, USA |