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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Monday 26 February 2007, Dale wrote: |
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>> It may be the wrong tool, but it has always worked before. I tend to |
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>> use what works. I said this in a reply somewhere before. By the |
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>> time I get good at using a command, like the now extinct etcat, they |
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>> change it to something else with a whole different set of options. |
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>> I'm hoping things will settle down then I can learn all this once. |
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> kwrite is an editor designed to edit smallish files, similar but |
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> slightly better than notepad. Like all small editors, it probably loads |
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> the entire file into memory before displaying it, and it gets very |
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> confused with some contents, thinking that they are blocks of code that |
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> can be collapsed. |
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> The program landscape will never settle down and leave you with a |
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> definite set of programs - Linux lives, breathes, grows and evolves |
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> almost exactly the way human societies do - always changing, always |
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> adapting and never the same in any two places. |
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> A few base programs you can rely on though - like less. It's a file |
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> viewer, designed to make it easy for you to look at the contents of |
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> files. It's also the thing that displays man pages. I highly recommend |
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> spending the few minutes it takes to get used to using it. It runs from |
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> a terminal, which is also worth spending some time to get used to it. |
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I use a terminal a lot. I use less pretty often too. It's just that I |
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got used to Kwrite and it was working fine for me. I don't knock what |
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is working. ;-) I always use man to display man pages. Am I weird? |
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>> Of course, if you wish to share a few commands with options and what |
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>> they do, that may help. I'm not sure I even know what all the |
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>> commands are right now. I got to much on my brain right now. It is |
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>> like mush. |
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>> hmmmm, I have used less for a lot for things but not files this big. |
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>> I could wear out my page down key. LOL At least I don't have to |
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>> look into the emerge.log very often. That's good. |
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> big files the size of emerge.log (8M on my machine) is exactly what less |
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> excels at. The most useful key is of course "/" which lets you enter a |
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> string of text to search for, then 'q" to quit and "h" displays a help |
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> screen |
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> alan |
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My thing is getting to the bottom of the page in one key stroke. Maybe |
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I need to man less and read a bit. :/ |
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Oh well, time to learn something I guess. It seems Kwrite is off the |
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path for a while. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) :-) |
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