Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:20 am
right on.evands wrote:alias pico='pico -w'The_Tick wrote:hope you are using the -w options.evands wrote:I <3 pico.
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:20 am
what does -w do in pico?
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:21 am
found out:
Thanks! I'll like this 
This always bugged me, so now I have a solution!
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-w Disable word wrap (thus allow editing of long lines).This always bugged me, so now I have a solution!
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:15 am
Yeah, nothing impresses a room full of hardcore UNIX people like stepping up to the terminal and putting in
Seriously, I've been mocked by some vi-heads, but never let it get to me. Any texteditor that makes people say, "sometimes i have to bang on my keyboard to get anything to pop up" is just not meant for people to use. I've read vi tutorials a couple times, but an hour later, I always forget how to get out of "super-double insertion mode" and back into normal "triple reversi cursor motion mode" and next thing you know, I've overwritten my boot sector.
On the other hand, I always lose at the text adventure game in emacs when I end up eating the shovel. So, both systems have their own advantages and disadvantages.
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% pico .myConfigurationFileSeriously, I've been mocked by some vi-heads, but never let it get to me. Any texteditor that makes people say, "sometimes i have to bang on my keyboard to get anything to pop up" is just not meant for people to use. I've read vi tutorials a couple times, but an hour later, I always forget how to get out of "super-double insertion mode" and back into normal "triple reversi cursor motion mode" and next thing you know, I've overwritten my boot sector.
On the other hand, I always lose at the text adventure game in emacs when I end up eating the shovel. So, both systems have their own advantages and disadvantages.
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Dead end
You are at a dead end of a dirt road. The road goes to the east.
In the distance you can see that it will eventually fork off. The
trees here are very tall royal palms, and they are spaced equidistant
from each other.
There is a shovel here.
>eat shovel
You don't have that.
>get shovel
Taken.
>eat shovel
You forcefully shove a shovel down your throat, and start choking.
You are dead.
You have scored 0 out of a possible 90 points.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 7:26 am
Vi is so easy dude, check it.
a and i put you into a insert mode
escape pulls you out.
That's all you need to know in regards to modes to get you in and out of stuff.
a and i put you into a insert mode
escape pulls you out.
That's all you need to know in regards to modes to get you in and out of stuff.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:18 am
Whereas I have imagined myself to be the text adventure badass ever since I successfully removed my common sense and carried both tea and no tea simultaneously.carlj7 wrote:On the other hand, I always lose at the text adventure game in emacs when I end up eating the shovel. So, both systems have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:21 am
Maybe we could make a special vi version of Adium. Press m to bring up your contact list then l to send a message. Press a then i to type your message plus % to send it. Finally, type w then t then f to see the other person's message. 
No, I understand that vi is totally powerful. It's just more power than I need. I get by fine just option arrowing my way around and finding/replacing for power jobs. It is interesting though that Cocoa apps will take emacs shortcuts by default.
No, I understand that vi is totally powerful. It's just more power than I need. I get by fine just option arrowing my way around and finding/replacing for power jobs. It is interesting though that Cocoa apps will take emacs shortcuts by default.
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:28 am
So how do you make that emacs adventure game come up? As some of you may know, I've written an adventure game or two myself, and I enjoy playing them.
/me goes back to his text editor of choice: TextEdit
/me goes back to his text editor of choice: TextEdit
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:46 am
Simplicity itself, just launch emacs and put in ESC ` t g a 
To quit emacs, ctrl-x ctrl-c
If only Adium could be so simple… *Sigh*
To quit emacs, ctrl-x ctrl-c
If only Adium could be so simple… *Sigh*
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:06 pm
Sure, real simple. And you complain about modes in vi.carlj7 wrote:Simplicity itself, just launch emacs and put in ESC ` t g a
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:09 pm
I must say that nano/pico is the best. First thing I install when installing Unix/Linux is nano. That's also the first thing I installed after I installed Cygwin this afternoon.
-- SirG3
edit: hah! OS X's auto spell checker underlined the word 'nstlated' and I corrected it twice, I swear ;-)
-- SirG3
edit: hah! OS X's auto spell checker underlined the word 'nstlated' and I corrected it twice, I swear ;-)
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:27 am
in the latest svn I have no groups, all contacts were merged together in any contact list. Other than that everything looked pretty cool.
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 12:31 am
view--> hide contact list group
that'll fix that
that'll fix that
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:28 am
Anyone who's using pico should be using nano. nano is extremely, extremely similar to pico. But it's quite a bit more powerful if you care to use it. It still maintains that super simple charm that pico has, though 
Plus, nano is GPL
Plus, nano is GPL
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 6:14 pm
If anyone's interested, I was rummaging around a while back and found a couple reasonable-looking vi introductions: from FSU, ISR, Linux User's Group (including an ed tutorial), and a reference sheet taken from the book with the funny animal (lemur?) on the front.
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:42 pm
Maybe I'm missing it, but in the current SVN version is there any way to show my current away message in a window?
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:54 pm
same question, also, the bugginess of the svn made me switch back to non-svn, but now i get double notifications for several events from growl even tho the pref pane only has one. any way to fix this bug, ive tried disabling them and relaunching and morespacemanspiff wrote:Maybe I'm missing it, but in the current SVN version is there any way to show my current away message in a window?
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:12 pm
You need to open the SVN, and turn off all the gorwl notifications, and then quit. Then restart the .7x release you have. I had the same problem, and that's what worked for me. Hope this Helps.shanus wrote:same question, also, the bugginess of the svn made me switch back to non-svn, but now i get double notifications for several events from growl even tho the pref pane only has one. any way to fix this bug, ive tried disabling them and relaunching and morespacemanspiff wrote:Maybe I'm missing it, but in the current SVN version is there any way to show my current away message in a window?
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:24 pm
Should we be submitting crash reports (using the automatic crash reporter) for SVN?
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:52 pm
thanks tipo! also, a cool idea, for the dock icons , will there be a status for invisible, because someone is making an extra of the fantastic four and i think the invisible one would be the best status ever!