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> From: Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 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
So is there anything that does word wrap and print, and has a help
screen as useful as AE, or my 1980's CPM Wordstar?
> > 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.
A still unanswered question. Is anyone familiar with changing options
on MC's editor? Do I need to go to a conf file?
> If you use printtool, it has an option, "Fix stair-stepping text",
> you need to check.
I apparently don't have printtool, but I'll check further.
> 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.
That's one I haven't tried yet.
> > 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.
Now fixed, by changing permissions. I must have changed the wrong one
by mistake, because it worked before.
> Put global aliases in /etc/bashrc.
Didn't work so far.
> > 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?
Yes, I see a lot of that (like the flat QWERTY keyboard). I wonder
what % of disk space. How about having verbose and concise
distribution versions, leave historical stuff available on the CD? I
thought one value of linux was to evolve better systems.
Also I wonder what % of time, as a single user, I spend learning
about a multi-user environment. A single-user version of Linux would
also be nice.
> > 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.
I did the latter, but I was talking about "simply" changing
filenames, often to something more discriptive, and making aliases
when necessary. Maybe use something like mv /*/*less* /*/*display*,
with y/n prompts? I'm remembering Stan told me Linux is the most
configurable thing around, but he didn't say how difficult.
Dan Robinson
