Dan Robinson wrote:
> But AE apparently isn't designed to word wrap or print. Are there
> possibilities? The MC editor apparently doen't print either.
Word wrap. No. Emacs and vi can word wrap. The tiny editors
generally leave that sort of thing out.
In emacs: ESC X auto-fill-mode RETURN
In vi: :set wrap RETURN
> MC editor has manual paragraph reformatting. Its Options-General menu
> has an option for "Dynamic paragraphing" but I can't find a way to
> change it from "No wrap", or make other changes.
>
> The lpr command prints, but with only LF, not CR. What needs to be
> changed so the printer recognizes the Linux format?
Print by typing this.
sed 's/$/'`echo -ne '\r'`'/' $files | lpr
(Just kidding. Isn't Linux humor great?)
If you use printtool, it has an option, "Fix stair-stepping text", you
need to check.
That button changes the value of the variable CRLFTRANS in the file
/var/spool/lpd/$PRINTER_NAME/textonly.cfg, so if you have that file,
you can edit it directly.
> Lately man has started saying "man: can't create temp filename:
> Permission denied". As root, I'm wondering who denied permission and
> why. Is God interfering here? I thought I was God of this system.
Weird. This is one to examine at a clinic.
> As a normal user I have .alias and .bashrc, both with aliases. Is
> there a reason? Is there some place I can put one such file that will
> work for all users? The places I've tried haven't seemed to work. Can
> I make changes and have them recognized without rebooting?
Put global aliases in /etc/bashrc.
To make changes without rebooting, type: "source /etc/bashrc" Or just
log out and in again. Or start a new subshell by typing "bash".
> I'd like to write "c [directory]" to obey alias c='cd [??] |ls'.
> What is it that's needed here? Someone (Jason?) showed me it worked
> anyway, but now I think he left out the [directory] part.
I can't make it work with an alias, but this shell function works for
me.
function c() { cd "$1" && ls; }
> How about changing (slowing) keyboard repeat or "typematic" rate?
> Don't be too sure about this. "Experts" have tried. The DOS/Windows
> repeat rate is fine, or maybe a bit too slow.
Dunno. I know how to do it under X windows, but not for the console.
> In LS, Less or More (pagers) apparently prevent color format. Is
> there a way around that?
No.
> What's the sense of having LS (or file readers I've seen) without a
> pager anyway?
Historical reasons. Remember printing terminals?
> What does it take to change commands/program filenames without
> causing problems? For instance I might change Less to Show, or
> Display, with alias d='display'.
Sure. You can define an alias display=less. Or you can simply
alias d=less.
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