On Monday 09 April 2018 09:02:55 Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> So the actual disk isn't to blame (cat'ing a file that was just > >> saved won't look at the disk anyway). > > > > Whats it look at 5+ minutes later? > > Same difference: if `cat` can't see it, then the change hasn't been > received by the OS at all (even less so by the underlying disk). > > > The file had not been updated yet an hour later. Ext4's journal in > > my understanding has a maximum of 5 minutes to sync? Its now around > > 10 hours later and has not yet been updated with the last two lines > > I'd added. > > The changes you see in `cat`s output will be transferred to disk > eventually, yes. But those that aren't visible to `cat` just don't > exist, as far as the OS is concerned. > > > What else is a good editor? > > Is that a trick question? > Twasn't intended to be.
However I did find (I actually read its man page!) an alias setting that makes nano do line at a time scrolling and installed it, so I'll try it when I get back to that project later today. nano hasn't made a mistake yet that I didn't do typeing in the wrong place. A big, rapidly blinking BLOCK cursor would help these old eyes find it a lot easier. But in 20 years thats fallen out of style, dammit. > > Stefan -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>