Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Jeff Howie
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:41:15PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > Damian Menscher wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > the main difference is a sideeffect, sort of, if grep is called for > > > with one file as an argument it only prints the line matched, not the > > > filename, s

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2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Howie
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:31:48PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I run an older PII-180/96M at home. Galeon works, but it's not as > lightweight as some would have you believe, and stability varies > greatly. I'm finding text-mode browsers more and more attractive as > time goes by. Prima

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Jeff Howie
I _LIKE_ IT (ie 'ls -d */')! :&) Up 'til now I've been using: lld() { ls -l $@ | grep -E ^d return 0 } But your solution is much more elegant. thks.jeff On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:49:32PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > I am on bash. This is part of the the output of the >

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was "Mutt's Editor"

2000-10-13 Thread Jeff Howie
I cut my teeth on vim (4.x or so). and haven't looked back. On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:59:06AM -0500, will trillich wrote: > emacs fans, please turn the other cheek-- > how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? Not sure about that, but I would assume that vi(elvis) would be on the

Re: Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread Jeff Howie
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:15:45PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Quoth Nate Bargmann, > > In ~./mutt/muttrc check this line: > > set editor=/usr/bin/vim > > You may also want to include the contents of > /usr/share/doc/vim/examples/mail in your ยท/.vimrc - it does cool things > like colour signatur

Re: Ispell and Vim

2000-10-13 Thread Jeff Howie
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 01:25:06AM +0200, Francois Fayard wrote: > I want to use ispell under vim. That is map a key to run ispell with the > current file and save the result in this file. Do you know how I can do > such a thing ? In your .vimrc - map :!ispell %^M:e %^M Works for me. thks.jeff

Re: debian: lpr wont suppress headers

2000-09-29 Thread Jeff Howie
Probably nothing to do with your printcap. We saw the same problem @ work, & upgrading to the latest lprng was the fix. On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:53:58AM +1100, Brendan J Simon wrote: > I'm using Debian-2.2 on Intel and PowerPC platforms. I am using > magicfilter and lprng (couldn't get lpr work

Re: How does the mailing-list->usenet gateway work?

2000-09-28 Thread Jeff Howie
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:24:54AM +1100, caffeine wrote: > Perhaps it is a good thing it has been discontinued, since nobody here is > obscuring their email address to avoid Usenet spam harvesters. Good point (seriously). What (else) would you suggest?

Re: How does the mailing-list->usenet gateway work?

2000-09-28 Thread Jeff Howie
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Re: Debugging /bin/sh scripts?

2000-09-13 Thread Jeff Howie
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