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  • Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Fri Nov 22 20:51:17 2024
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:30:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

    You can also use /gi to make it confirm for each substitution. Pretty
    useful sometimes.

    Emacs ctrl-alt-% already does that: type “y” or “n” to substitute or skip,
    “q” to stop, “!” to go ahead and do all the rest without confirmation. There are even options for undoing the last replacement/all replacements.

    And then there’s “recursive editing” ...

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  • From Daniel@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Dec 17 06:13:38 2024
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

    On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:30:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

    You can also use /gi to make it confirm for each substitution. Pretty
    useful sometimes.

    Emacs ctrl-alt-% already does that: type “y” or “n” to substitute or skip,
    “q” to stop, “!” to go ahead and do all the rest without confirmation.
    There are even options for undoing the last replacement/all replacements.

    And then there’s “recursive editing” ...

    Off the top of my head.

    emacs, lynx, links2, syncterm, mplayer, fbi/fbgs, sc, keepass, brave.

    There's more but this is core. All the others get installed as needed,
    then forgotten about until needed again.

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  • From Aidan Kehoe@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 17 07:14:17 2024
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Daniel:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

    [...] Emacs ctrl-alt-% already does that: type “y” or “n” to substitute or
    skip, “q” to stop, “!” to go ahead and do all the rest without confirmation. There are even options for undoing the last replacement/all replacements.

    And then there’s “recursive editing” ...

    Off the top of my head.

    emacs, lynx, links2, syncterm, mplayer, fbi/fbgs, sc, keepass, brave.

    There's more but this is core. All the others get installed as needed,
    then forgotten about until needed again.

    I’m a big fan of Inkscape, mainly for editing PDFs. If you like and use TeX that gets installed early.

    --
    ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
    How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
    (C. Moore)

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  • From luxhalitus@21:1/5 to Aidan Kehoe on Tue Dec 17 11:21:38 2024
    XPost: comp.os.linux.misc

    While i don't have any hard rules, i usually end up installing lynx, an
    emacs, groff, plan9port and fbpdf over the course of a week. On laptops
    i only ever prepare dwm as a desktop, because what else can you use
    without a proper mouse? After recently getting into s6, i also installed execline everywhere and ported some of my program launch scripts to it.

    Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> writes:

    I’m a big fan of Inkscape, mainly for editing PDFs. If you like and use TeX that gets installed early.

    Some people like to rag on ImageMagick for being unintuitive and
    sometimes butchering the quality of PDFs (like this doesn't happen in
    GIMP as well). Nothing can beat the simplicity of it though, if you've memorized which flags you need.

    These days i mainly use it to append pictures. Recently someone send me
    a document as a photo with horribly uneven lighting, so i passed it some brightness and contrast parameters to get sharp text on a white,
    washed-out background.

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