On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 2:15 PM Solène Rapenne <sol...@perso.pw> wrote: > > Le Mon, 2 May 2022 14:08:23 +0300, > Mihai Popescu <mih...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > For gnome readme, there is this sequence: > > > > # cat <<'EOF' >>/etc/login.conf > > > > gnome:\ > > :datasize-cur=1024M:\ > > :tc=default: > > > > EOF > > > > It is a verbatim copy of what is displayed on the screen, Still I was > > not able to figure out what key to press or how to type to accomplish > > this :). I gave up and edited the file directly. > > > > Thanks. > > > > just for posterity the following text is a shell code > > cat <<'EOF' >>/etc/login.conf > > gnome:\ > :datasize-cur=1024M:\ > :tc=default: > > EOF > > > this tells cat to take input until it sees EOF and add the text to > /etc/login.conf file. Then we feed it the text we want to append, and > we tell it we finished by typing EOF. This is a command to type from a > shell. > > However, if it's not clear, maybe we should reword that part to tell > "add theses lines to /etc/login.conf" or something like that.
Well, I figure that out, but that is not my point. I tried to do that [TAB] spaces. I fact I typed the first line, the one with # cat ..., then [ENTER]. After that I got: > and [TAB] was not taken and put on the screen as a blank space. And about the "posterity" I am not so sure anymore, seeing what is happening to my eastern border :(. I surrender to Gnome 42 colors for now.
