SVN .8 adium

[The_Tick]

I <3 pico.

hope you are using the -w options.

alias pico='pico -w'

right on.

[zaudragon]

what does -w do in pico?

[zaudragon]

found out:

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-w     Disable word wrap (thus allow editing of long lines).

Thanks! I'll like this

This always bugged me, so now I have a solution!

[carlj7]

Yeah, nothing impresses a room full of hardcore UNIX people like stepping up to the terminal and putting in

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% pico .myConfigurationFile

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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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.

[The_Tick]

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.

[evands]

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.

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]

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.

[FredAkbar]

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

[carlj7]

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*

[The_Tick]

Simplicity itself, just launch emacs and put in ESC ` t g a

Sure, real simple. And you complain about modes in vi.

[SirG3]

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 ;-)

[shanus]

in the latest svn I have no groups, all contacts were merged together in any contact list. Other than that everything looked pretty cool.

[twistmac]

view--> hide contact list group

that'll fix that

[cbarrett]

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

[Perez]

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.

[spacemanspiff]

Maybe I'm missing it, but in the current SVN version is there any way to show my current away message in a window?

[shanus]

Maybe I'm missing it, but in the current SVN version is there any way to show my current away message in a window?

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 more

[Tipo 61]

Maybe I'm missing it, but in the current SVN version is there any way to show my current away message in a window?

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 more

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.

[Perez]

Should we be submitting crash reports (using the automatic crash reporter) for SVN?

[shanus]

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!