Re: [gentoo-user] 6x13 font for gnome-terminal
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Allan Gottlieb wrote: All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 This permits 3 side by side windows (frames in emacs) of 81 columns. I have tried every fixed-width frame I found in the list given for gnome-terminal and cannot find one this size. Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 or, even better, tell gnome to make this font available on the menus? Maybe you can set that in your ~/.Xdefaults file? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 6x13 font for gnome-terminal
I think gnome-terminal only can handle xft-fonts (and that's probably a feature)... Have you considered trying some older (and not so user friendly) terminal? rxvt, xterm, urxvt and aterm are all pretty nice, memory efficent and fast, and you can do everything in them that you could in gnome-terminal (well, almost) :-) Oscar Saturday 23 July 2005 00.24 skrev Allan Gottlieb: All my screens are 1600x1200 pixels. Several are reasonably large (~20 inch) lcds and I use what emacs calls a 6x13 font. Its real name is -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 This permits 3 side by side windows (frames in emacs) of 81 columns. I have tried every fixed-width frame I found in the list given for gnome-terminal and cannot find one this size. Is there some way I can tell gnome-terminal to use -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO8859-1 or, even better, tell gnome to make this font available on the menus? thanks, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to instruct emerge to leave certain stuff alone
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:39:12 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: According to the portage man-page you must include the version of the package Yes I saw that too, But that wasn't necessary before. So maybe new? But it also raises another question. The emacs I wanted to keep is an older version than the newest in portage. So do I enter that version? Put the version you have installed in package.provided and category/package-version in /etc/portage/package.mask. This will tell portage that you have the version you have installed, but not to try to update to a newer version. If you ever try to install a package that requires a later version of emacs than you have, you'll get an error and can deal with it manually, whereas putting later versions in package.provided means you'll see no error until the dependent package breaks. -- Neil Bothwick I do not like this dumb machine I really ought to sell it. It never does just what I want But only what I tell it. pgpSF4R32Hkr7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs
On Freitag 24 Juli 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:16:34 +0300 (EEST), Igor Nemilentsev wrote: complain to the fedora idiots who thought that zapping is not needed anymore? I don't know but do fedora's developers have an very serious influence on Xorg development ? According to man xorg.conf, DontVTSwitch and DontZap both default to off. I can see the use for such options, when you don't want your users exiting X or even specific programs, but the default seems sensible. Is it just Fedora that change the defaults? no, they changed the default from DontZap false to DontZap true. And all of its proponents are fedora/redhat devs. Because ctrl+alt+backspace is bad for emacs users (wtf? I have used emacs in the past - never a problem) or poor stupid people hit it accidentally (and what happens when you do it in windows?). So they changed this eternal old default. No matter that it is extremly usefull to quickly kill a misbehaving X - or as a nice way to log out of kde/gnome/whatever without having to click some confirmation first. of course - ubuntu was happy about the change. But ubuntu is made for ... grr
[gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME
Something I have not run into before. Following a major update still in progress I find the ls command will not run on $HOME. I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. Top shows 94% idle so its not from heavy system usage. The ls command seems to work anywhere else, and I see nothing peculiar when viewing $HOME with emacs. Running `ls' from a root shell against my user $HOME, is the same story, indefinite hang, nothing listed. I've let it run from both user and root shell for upwards of 1/2 hr. Still just sets there. I've killed the terminal and restarted both user and root shells. But still the same result... a `ls' against my user $HOME will just hang. In both root shell and user shell, once `ls' is run against my user $HOME, the command hangs but also cannot by interrupted. Ctrl-c will not stop it. It only seem to happen on $HOME how very odd. Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be the cause?
[gentoo-user] Re: tmux first impression
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes:
Walter Dnes wrote:
4) I entered the line
set -g prefix C-a
in ~/.tmux.conf because every site on the web that reviewed it said that
was the way to go. Apparently, the developer uses {CONTROL-B} as the
default hotkey to avoid colliding with {CONTROL-A} which screen uses.
But everyone agrees that {CONTROL-B} is badly placed on the keyboard.
I installed it too. It seems a lot like screen to me and screen seems
to do what I need. I did hit ctrl a several times tho. lol I was
wondering what would happen if you started tmux then started a screen
session inside it.
Maybe tmux has something like screen, a combination to send a C-a (or
any other prefix combination you set) to the running terminal.
I'd set something else -- although C-a is easy to type (at least here,
control in home row), it's used in some applications, like anything that
uses readline (if in Emacs mode; it seems readline also has a vi mode)
and Emacs itself.
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Re: [gentoo-user] XEmacs from Outer Space...is it Plan 9 or what ? ;)
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 05:39:54PM +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote Fredric Johansson fredric.miscm...@gmail.com [11-11-12 17:32]: But: Now and when I may did install it accidently it is/was true, that Xemacs was needed and would be installed. Why was it pulled in now, if it would have been installed when I installed app-xemacs/emerge accidently? Here's what you may have done ***WITHOUT*** the - waltdnes@d531 ~ $ emerge -p emerge vim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.13 [ebuild N ] media-libs/audiofile-0.3.1 USE=-static-libs [ebuild R] app-editors/vim-7.3.266 [ebuild N ] app-editors/xemacs-21.4.22-r2 USE=X gif jpeg png tiff -Xaw3d -athena -berkdb -canna -dnd -eolconv -esd -freewnn -gdbm -gpm -ldap -motif -mule -nas -neXt -pop -postgres -xface -xim [ebuild N ] app-xemacs/xemacs-base-2.27 [ebuild N ] app-xemacs/emerge-1.11 Pulls in emacs. Talk about an accident waiting to happen... -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot
On 05/26/2016 05:03 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 26 May 2016 09:32:26 I wrote: > >> Thanks for the encouragement. I'll muse awhile. > > Already I have an elementary question: what editors are recommended for this > kind of work? Other than vim and emacs, that is, either of which would > involve yet another acute learning process. > It doesn't really matter, you're essentially just writing bash scripts. We have special syntax highlighting for vim and emacs, but anything that can handle bash code should work fine. We also use tabs for indentation (disgusting, I know), so your editor should know the difference between tabs and spaces. I've used app-editors/mousepad in a pinch. Repoman can catch a lot of minor syntax issues (like space indentation), and the output of `git diff` will show leading/trailing whitespace, so it isn't much of a problem.
[gentoo-user] Re: How to contribute ebuilds?
Victor enise.org> writes: > I have a couple of ebuilds for some software not in main tree, mainly > emacs and python modules. > What is the preferred way to contribute them without becoming a Gentoo > Developer? I think the preferred method (it takes time to go down the gentoo-dev or gentoo-proxy-maintainer pathways) is to setup a github acccount and post your body of work there because github makes it easy for folks to collaborate with you and your work. Who knows, maybe you'll also want to bring turbogears2 to gentoo? That would be very, bery cool! Turbogears1 use to be part of the packages available. Turbogears2 is very cool [1]. > Should I post them to bugzilla or maybe send to `python' and `emacs' > overlays (if so, how?), or `sunrise' overlay? Or create my own overlay? Yes, that way, we get immediate access to the ebuilds to test them out and give you feedback. Put up some details, related to these packages, either in bgo or a github/blog, particularly if they are part of a theme you are pursuing. hth, James [1] http://www.turbogears.org/current-status.html#
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to contribute ebuilds?
On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:11:54 + (UTC) James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > Victor enise.org> writes: > > > > I have a couple of ebuilds for some software not in main tree, > > mainly emacs and python modules. > > What is the preferred way to contribute them without becoming a > > Gentoo Developer? > > I think the preferred method (it takes time to go down the gentoo-dev > or gentoo-proxy-maintainer pathways) is to setup a github acccount > and post your body of work there because github makes it easy for > folks to collaborate with you and your work. > > [...] > > > Should I post them to bugzilla or maybe send to `python' and `emacs' > > overlays (if so, how?), or `sunrise' overlay? Or create my own > > overlay? > > Yes, that way, we get immediate access to the ebuilds to test them > out and give you feedback. Put up some details, related to these > packages, either in bgo or a github/blog, particularly if they are > part of a theme you are pursuing. Thanks. > Who knows, maybe you'll also want to bring turbogears2 to gentoo? > That would be very, bery cool! Turbogears1 use to be part of the > packages available. Turbogears2 is very cool [1]. I've never used turbogears, I'll take a note :)
[gentoo-user] trouble starting gnome-terminal (SOLVED)
On Thu, Sep 29 2016, allan gottlieb wrote: > I run systemd if that is relevant. All commands below were run > as ordinary user "gottlieb" (I know the sudo runs the stated command as > root) > > On one machine (named E6430) running gnome-terminal is problematic. > > If I log via the gnome graphical login screen I cannot start a gnome > terminal either by >Selecting it from the favorites menu >Using my own keyboard shortcut (which has worked for years) >Invoking M-x shell in emacs and typing gnome-terminal > > The first two produce nothing on the screen, third produces > Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: > Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process > org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 9 > > However the following both work >1. in the same emacs shell as above typing sudo gnome-terminal >2. from another machine where gnome-terminal works as normal > ssh -Y e6430 > gnome-terminal > > Any suggestions would be appreciated > > thanks, > allan # localectl set-locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" Fixed the problem (without explaining what caused it). allan
[gentoo-user] trouble starting gnome-terminal
I run systemd if that is relevant. All commands below were run as ordinary user "gottlieb" (I know the sudo runs the stated command as root) On one machine (named E6430) running gnome-terminal is problematic. If I log via the gnome graphical login screen I cannot start a gnome terminal either by Selecting it from the favorites menu Using my own keyboard shortcut (which has worked for years) Invoking M-x shell in emacs and typing gnome-terminal The first two produce nothing on the screen, third produces Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.Terminal: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gnome.Terminal exited with status 9 However the following both work 1. in the same emacs shell as above typing sudo gnome-terminal 2. from another machine where gnome-terminal works as normal ssh -Y e6430 gnome-terminal Any suggestions would be appreciated thanks, allan
[gentoo-user] Re: Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?
On 2017-06-26 19:18, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Sometimes the clipboard contents even disappear if you exit the > application you copied from. Start Google Chrome. Select the URL bar. > Press Ctrl+C. Quit Google Chrome. Try Ctrl+V somewhere. It's gone. The > clipboard content you just copied from Chrome is gone. I think this is a feature, for privacy reasons. pass (the password manager) does the same with passwords it puts into the clipboard. > It's a good old huge big effing mess, as usual. The year of the Linux > desktop will probably be the one where the freakin' clipboard actually > works, because we still can't get it right in 2017. This I agree with ;-) One program that gets it 90% right is emacs. So, I often end up pasting into the emacs scratch buffer and re-copying from there, as a workaround. -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and newsgroups Personal signed mail: please _encrypt_ and sign Don't clear-text sign: http://primate.net/~itz/blog/the-problem-with-gpg-signatures.html
[gentoo-user] Re: TRAMP is not working
Melleus writes: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > >> On Monday, September 3, 2018 2:51:11 PM CEST Melleus wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> After emerging new Emacs (v.26) I got TRAMP broken. I do not use it >>> often, so I hit the problem only today. Instead of opening file it >>> complains with the following message (regardless of protocols and >>> local/remote files): >>> >>> "Couldn't find local shell prompt for zsh" >>> >>> I might be possibly doing something wrong, but before the update there >>> were no issues. Reading TRAMP manual brought to me no enlightenment on >>> what's happening either. >>> >>> Thanks ahead. >> >> Is "zsh" installed and working? >> >> -- >> Joost > > Yes, sure. And it is available for Emacs terminal: > > me@myhost ~ % sh > sh-4.4$ zsh > me@myhost ~ % exit > sh-4.4$ exit > exit > me@myhost ~ % I have found the solution: from now on there should be the following stanza: [ $TERM = "dumb" ] && unsetopt zle && PS1='$ ' put in .zshrc file. (source: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/27410/cant-connect-with-tramp-tramp-file-name-handler-couldn-t-find-local-shell-prom#27418) I do not quite understand why I could not find that in manual. But anyway TRAMP is working now.
Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback
Grant: > On 1/13/21 2:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: ... > > Doing text work in X is s l u g g i s h. Changing from one > > application to another, which would be achieved by, say Alt-F4 on a > > console takes more key sequences in X, and is less than instantaneous. I'm using fvwm set up with 9 virtual screens and so I can swith between them with ctr-arrow, fast enought for me. ... > > On an Emacs session, in three columns on a console, I can display > > 195 consecutive lines of a source file simultaneously. ... I get 260x97 chars in emacs on a 1600x1280 display. With three columns, w82,82,83chars, I get 3x95=285 lines of text. /// Alan, how do you set up your console (I'd like to try) ? Regards, /Karl Hammar
[gentoo-user] app-crypt/pinentry - major rework: "/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2" missing
Hello list,
I recently updated "app-crypt/pinentry" and suddenly
"/usr/bin/pinentry-gtk-2" was missing.
I am using "pinentry-gtk-2", so I can enter the passphrase for my GPG
private key, when using the browser extension "Gopass Bridge".
Taking a look at the commit of the package[1], it states:
[...]
-disable gtk2 (obsolete)
[...]
@@ -58,16 +57,15 @@ src_configure() {
econf \
[...]
--disable-pinentry-gtk2 \
[...]
The USE flag "gtk" was not removed:
-IUSE="caps emacs gnome-keyring fltk gtk ncurses qt5"
+IUSE="caps emacs gnome-keyring gtk ncurses qt5"
Since when is this obsolete and is there any alternative?
-Ramon
[1]
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=acad5327d6e44f7f4b2dd8a5eb6a563a1297aac3
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:41 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Please, recommend a text editor with a capability to find/replace *multiline* blocks. you mean search and replace with newlines in the middle? um. emacs? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Every time I think that perhaps we are an advanced race, I turn around and read ramblings on Slashdot, and realize I was wrong. -- From a Slashdot.org post -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails
Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: !!! ERROR: sys-devel/m4-1.4.11 failed. I looked on bugzilla, where it was suggested to run: emerge -1 app-arch/lzma-utils I did that but the error on m4 persists. If anyone has a workaround, please pass it on. Thanks, Roger First try to do rm -rv /var/tmp/portage/* and emerge it again. Thanks Justin, unfortunately that did not work: I have exactly the same error. Cheers, Roger -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage annoyances
Hello Grant, Shouldn't gdm depend on xdm though? In the same way that vim depends on emacs. gdm and xdm (also kdm) are different programs to fdo the same basic job, there's no reason for one to depend on the other. Do I need xorg-x11 on a typical desktop system? My laptop doesn't seem to think it is installed at all: Probably because it isn't, because you don't need it. -- Neil Bothwick EASY TO INSTALL = Difficult to install, but instruction manual has pictures. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage annoyances
Shouldn't gdm depend on xdm though? In the same way that vim depends on emacs. gdm and xdm (also kdm) are different programs to fdo the same basic job, there's no reason for one to depend on the other. I didn't know that, thanks. Do I need xorg-x11 on a typical desktop system? My laptop doesn't seem to think it is installed at all: Probably because it isn't, because you don't need it. Ok, what does xorg-x11 do? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?
On 7 Dec 2007, at 13:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the default choice. How does it do that? How do I make it select something else? I think you simply emerge vi (or vim or emacs or joe or whatever) and then portage will no longer try to emerge nano (or any other editor). EG: emerge -C emerge vi emerge world Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Openoffice does not accept keyboard inp ut (such as üéè)
I have 2 systems with Gentoo and Openoffice. It is built with the USE-flags cups firefox kde pam and nothing else on both systems. On one system it is impossible to write certain letters, such as üéè. Nothing happens when first the ¨ key and then the u key is pressed. It works in all programs in KDE and also in Firefox and emacs. Only Openoffice fails. The users are complaining. On the other system it works fine in all programs, including Openoffice. I have no idea why it behaves like this. Thanks in advance for any help! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Sandbox Violation
Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi everyone, recently I killed a running merge of app-emacs/auctex with C-c in the shell. Now after that I am not able to install the package anymore. I get a sandbox when kpathsea is run. Just a shot in the dark, but try this as root: rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* and then emerge again. Please type the above command very carefully; if you introduce a space by mistake it will be not good :P
Re: [gentoo-user] VI
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 12:34 -0500, George Ellison wrote: emerge -C vim emerge emacs Troll -- Lares Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] | LRU: 400755 http://counter.li.org lares/irc.freenode.net | Gentoo x86 Arch Tester | ::0 Alberta, Canada Public Key: 0D46BB6E @ subkeys.pgp.net | Encrypted Mail Preferred Key fingerprint = 0CA3 E40D F897 7709 3628 C5D4 7D94 483E 0D46 BB6E signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)
*heh heh* what's a better flamewar: the emacs vs vi flameware or the perl vs python flamewar? LOL...I'll bite! Of course the perl vs python flamewar. It introduces, in its best incarnations, both elegant and clever programming language concepts but also shows relentless fanboysm and misconceptions on both sides! It's a good flamewar where you learn both about programming, programming languages and the hysterical side of geeks. Anyway, I'm all for vi and python :). m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?
I remember a little MSDOG shell utility called 4dos. It alllowed me to store comments that would appear alongside the filename. Can anyone point to a way to do this transparently and easily with bash? I don't want to run any extra programs if I can avoid it. I do like dired for emacs, though. Thanks for any ideas. I refer to this list because I can't think where else to look. Alan Davis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Gateway tring to emerge xorg, don´t know why
Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: [ebuild N] app-text/ghostscript-esp-7.07.1-r8 -X -cjk +cups -emacs +gtk 2 kB That's the reason. PS my USE flags are: USE=logrotate -X -gnome -motif -kde -qt -png Add -gtk to your USE flags. HTH. -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax
Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: app-backup/rsnapshot-1.2.2 app-backup/bacula-1.48.5 app-editors/emacs-cvs-24 Haa there it is Another dopey message was sent before I saw this, and the real sorry part is that I've been caught by this before and not too long ago. I've recently done a full reinstall from scratch and when I redid that part I forgot about it again... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] GVFS errors
I am seeing errors like this, and wonder if someone can suggest a solution: (emacs:22548): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: cannot connect to the session bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Thank you, Alan -- Alan Davis It's never a matter of liking or disliking ... ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man
[gentoo-user] Re: control keybindings in mozilla
Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam wrote: [Repost alert!! - reposted from several days ago] I haven't gotten any nibbles on my original post on this topic. Is it inappropriate here? I want to have emacs like keybindings inside the mozilla locator box. I think this will help, although it will affect all gtk2 apps: http://www.gtk.org/gtk-2.0.0-notes.html Yes indeed. I guess I should have known to look there but it didn't really dawn on me it was an gtk controlled item. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to japanese intput
On 5/7/05, askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'm using Gentoo 2005.0, KDE and Fluxbox. I want to be able writing in japanese. Is there step-by-step setup guide for this. I looked at internet there some information, but each site has its own differences. I dont want to japanise everything - only japanese input needed. Also with Emacs. Canna and kinput2 are deprecated. Use scim. Here is a good guide: http://linux-life.net/gentoo/setting/japanese/ Hope it helps, Julien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: how to japanese intput
Hello! I set up and use the method showed at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-263174.html askar On 5/7/05, askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I'm using Gentoo 2005.0, KDE and Fluxbox. I want to be able writing in japanese. Is there step-by-step setup guide for this. I looked at internet there some information, but each site has its own differences. I dont want to japanise everything - only japanese input needed. Also with Emacs. askar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Error when emerging dialog
Jules Colding wrote: USE=-qt -kde gtk2 gtkhtml gnome hal cdr unicode bzip2 doc emacs examples tetex Everything went well until dialog was to be emerged. The output is below. The error went away when ncurses was emerged manually. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67524 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88161 -- Remy Remove underscore and suffix in reply address for a timely response. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL
Hi, On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 10:33 -0800, Michael Shaw wrote: What editor do people use for PHP and Perl development. I'm looking for something with syntax highlighting and such, so that rules ut vi or gedit. Thanks, Mike I used the php-mode for emacs when I co-wrote the Zend Certification Study Guide. Unlike vim, emacs actually parses and understands the code it's editing; this makes the syntax highlighting and indentation support much more flexible and accurate. I'd go as far as saying that the auto-indentation support for php-mode for emacs is by far the best I've worked with to date. Today, I use the phpEclipse plugin for Eclipse 3.0. I'm very happy with this. Performance is very good, the object browser works better than php-mode for Emacs did, and it's very useful indeed to be able to search all the files of a project from within the editor. There's also the advantage of being able to use other Eclipse plugins, such as support for subversion. phpEclipse is my main environment, which I use a good 8-10 hours in a working day. I tried Zend Studio about 18 months ago, but didn't like it. I found the performance was too slow (hate using software that can't keep up with my typing!), auto-indenting was inflexible (and I couldn't convince Zeev why that mattered :(, there was no subversion support, and no anti-aliased font support (tiring on the eyes when your main machine is a laptop). I haven't tried Zend Studio 4, and have no idea whether it has improved in any of these areas or not. Can't comment on a good environment for perl. Last time I used perl seriously was in '96. Things have changed a lot since then. Hope that helps, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C -- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[gentoo-user] Re: Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot
Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's fixed if you're still on the windblows box. It wasn't a problem for me because kmail threads pretty well but it might have been tough for others. Any good reader should handle it... no? I've used emacs news mail reader gnus for so long I don't know what any others might be like. It threads very well. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] [Off Topic] screen configuration...
I'm frustrated... I want to use screen, but my emacs-afflicted fingers automatically type control-a to go to the beginning of the line in my shell - which is somewhat unfortunate for screen. I assume from the manual that I can re-bind keys to avoid this problem... my first guess was to bung bind '^a' into my .screenrc - but that doesn't do the trick. Does anyone here have the correct incantation? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Meta key
Hi. In many terminal applications there are hot-keys corresponding to some actions. Many of them start with Meta. Midnight Commander use M-? for searching, Emacs use M- for moving cursor to the end of file... However on my Gentoo I must press also Shift to let it work. It seems like stupid problem, but I'm accustomed to use Alt-Shift for keyboard layout switching (Windows habit) and X (or Gnome, I really don't know) dispatch this action before keys are released so 'Alt-Shift-?' is considered like 'Alt-Shift' and then '?'. Thx -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview
Trying to emerge x11-misc/xnview: , | root # emerge -vvp * x11-misc/xnview | | These are the packages that would be merged, in order: | | Calculating dependencies \ | | !!! The short ebuild name bbdb is ambiguous. Please specify | !!! one of the following fully-qualified ebuild names instead: | | app-emacs/bbdb | app-xemacs/bbdb ` Apparently something is being passed to emerge somewhere I can't see. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix
Le 01 juin à 21:06:33 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | On 6/1/06, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi all, | | Using eix for some time (at least a year now), I discovered today | (eix-0.5.5) a very strange feature which and in less perfect world than | gentoo's might perhaps qualify as a bug. | | If I type eix package and the package is unstable (or has unstable | versions) and appears as such in the gentoo database, I expect to see it | -for the unstable versions- in eix's output: the man page says so anyway; | but this happens only if I have not marked the package with ~x86 in *my* | /etc/portage/package.keywords file. If I mark the package (with ~x86) | eix tells me : | | * app-editors/emacs-cvs | Available versions: 22.0.50-r1 22.0.50-r2 [M]23.0.0 | Installed: 22.0.50-r2 | Homepage:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs | Description: Emacs is the extensible, customizable, | self-documenting real-time display editor. | | and this is a *big lie* (works with any package apparently). | Why is it a lie?! Have you not accepted that version explicity in your | own config file? So, isn't that version available? If you do an emerge | emacs-csv, wouldn't it pull out the keyworded package? Note that eix | uses the available word, not stable or anything like that. By | using available, it is dynamic and can give results accourding to | your personal config. Sure ; you understand my using lie was a joke; but anyway I was interpreting the term masked as a property of the package common to all gentoo users, and it sounded (still does) strange to me; the man page: . OUTPUT If you used gentoo for more than a week you're probably going to immediately recognize the format of the versions-strings. Nevertheless, we are going to explain them here. [...] *3.4.3-r2 That version is masked by -* keyword. !3.3.3 This means the version is masked by missing keyword. -0.8.14 Masked by -ARCH. ~3.3.5.20050130 The version would be masked by ~keyword. as I personally do not mask packages, I could assume they were masked by the external world... I should have read the man more carefully | I guess its more a feature, it predicts exactly what portage will | do... I didn't even knew it was using my personal config files, that | is awesome! cheers, -- Jean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] screen and Ctrl-S not working any more?
Hi! When connecting to one of my gentoo servers via SSH, I've got a strange problem: Ctrl+S is not sent to my screen sessions any more, instead handled directly by the shell, causing the sesssion to freeze. This is extremly annoying as many emacs shortcuts require Ctrl+S. Anyone got any idea what could have changed? Best regards, Martin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] screen and Ctrl-S not working any more?
A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm.. on many systems, CTRL S is used to stop output on a terminal. CTRL Q resumes it. Probably the terminal driver is intercepting it before it gets through ssh to your emacs session. On many terminals you can precede any control sequence with CTRL V to bypass the terminal driver. Thanks for your input. Appearently I switch XON/XOFF setting for just one window in the running screen session and got confused about it. Thanks anyway! Martin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot... is the bugzilla material?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently dovecot expects this executable to be available but the ebuild doesn't think so. What USE flags did you use to compile dovecot? The commented /etc/dovcot.conf indicates /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3 is a default. No. Alexander Skwar -- On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK' - everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS. -- Tarl Neustaedter -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem to decode and play mp3
Hi all, my name is Seba, I'm a new gentoo user and this is my first post. I have a problem to play or decode only mp3 (no problem with ogg or wave), I play mp3 with noatun or amarok and decode it with k3b, the result is noise. My use flags: USE= X kde qt ithreads ncurses nptl nptlonly radeon zlib altivec arts opengl alsa mp3 mad dvdr gtk php pascal emacs vorbis encode Sorry for my english and thanks. Bye Seba. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Console Terminal Gentoo
Hi, I've installed Gentoo in another computer, but this time is just for programming, emacs (maravellous !!), gcc, gdb, valgrind... you know. I've no X.org and no graphical support. For that reason I'd like to know how to make *ALL* terminals console terminals, because at this time they end at Ctrl + Alt + F6, and Ctrl + Alt + F7 has no login petition. I've googled and had no results. I know that something important should be find in runlevels (my system starts number 3). Thank you !! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] package for the scheme programming language
On 18 Jul 2009, at 17:44, Allan Gottlieb wrote: ... I was going to recommend MIT-scheme, but I just found out that it has been removed from portage. (One would think *that* would play well with emacs ;) There may exist an overlay: http://gluegadget.com/blog/index.php?/archives/29-MITGNU-Scheme-and-Gentoo.html thank you willie (sunmoon, you msg didn't get through to me). Is there a typo in your msg; my browser can't find www.gluegadget.com? Perhaps it is a temporary network glitch, will try later. Blog URL works here. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1
On 10/1/2009 6:26 PM, Dale wrote: It has finished the emerge -e system so far. Not a single failure that I can see. Do have to update a config file tho. ;-) In case anyone's keeping score, I've been using gcc-4.4 with the hardened profile (from the hardened-development overlay, of course) for a good while, and the only problems I've run into are hardened related. It has built OOo, Gnome, Gimp, Firefox, Emacs, and even CLISP with no apparent problems so far. --Mike
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 11:28 +0100, Stroller wrote: I have this notion - can't be arsed to confirm this, disprove it or find additional information with Google right now - that Joe was developed to overcome this above problems. AFAIK Joe is similar to emacs (without the built-in lisp stuff) so most of the keybindings will be the same. Well there are a lot of editors made to overcome one or more problems of the other. That's why app-editors is so full. To me this shows more that editors don't have lots os problems, but people are just picky about editors. -a
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor
What editor do you prefer, then? I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard shortcuts. When I shifted to Linux full time a couple years ago, I decided to force myself to learn vi. I don't make any claims that it's better than emacs or any other editors out there. But for more advanced editors, I think it's necessary that there will be some learning curve, and then the best one is just what you bothered to learn. Emacs looks great, but I don't have a clue how to use it. Sure, the shortcuts are obscure, but I think even with a modern editor, shortcuts are obscure to the uninitiated. From this basic stand-point, I haven't found anything vi can do that emacs can't and vice-versa. But I just started forcing myself to use my editor of choice for everything, and then finding work-arounds (for example, in vi :set paste when you want to paste stuff from the main buffer (a la shift+insert in Konsole) without retarded indentation) and keeping a small notebook for the vi commands I learned. You can start making customized macros (I have one for printing the date, for example, for log files), customized highlighting (find one online you like the most and slowly tweak it), and nice default settings (like line numbering auto-enabled, for example). So, my advice would just be to make some kind of informed decision on which editor to use, and stick through the learning curve. It's much like choice of linux distribution. You can always change, but you ought to stay with your initial choice long enough to be competent with it. Besides, once you learn lots of obscure shortcuts, as one of my friends said, You can contort your hands in strange ways and make magic happen! ~daid
[gentoo-user] Re: Abut smb:// aware tools
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: Emacs is said to be able to do this using tramp but I haven't ever gotten it to work. Konqueror can do it... but I don't run kde, and don't really want to fiddle with it in that direction. Midnight Commander can do it. Haa, there is an old time tool... what do I need to use in `eix' to find it. `eix midnight' fails as does `eix commander' Does it have a different name in portage? I did find a vimcommander... maybe that will have the functionality too, since it says it has a commander style interface.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor
2009/10/4 Jesús Guerrero i92gu...@terra.es: On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-10-03, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but at least it seems to be safe. It doesn't trash my file every 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode. Honestly -- I've used vi infrequently but regularly (probably several times a month) for decades, and my brain just doesn't work the way vi does. What editor do you prefer, then? I'm an emacs guy. I've been using emacs (or various clones such as jove and jed) for 25 years now. IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe as an alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard shortcuts. I don't have any problem learning keystrokes. I do have problems with vi's modality. That's just one of the things I dislike about vi and all the vi clones out there. To me it is like the difference between edit to live and live to edit. It's a good editor and I respect people who like and use vi, but I refuse to use it unless there's absolutely no other option. I've been using vi (or vim, where available) for a few years, and I really like some of the features. What I like most is the double mode (command and edit). I find it really easy to use and saves me a lot of time. But I'm pretty sure that's just because I didn't bother learning any other editor (like emacs), and vi can be found at almost ALL linux distros I've come across in the last few years... It's a matter of taste. Some may argue about that (completely pointless), and that just proves that's useless. You like it, you use it, advocate it, but never impose it. -- Daniel da Veiga
[gentoo-user] cedet-semantic vs semantic
HiI'm confused about semantic in gentoo.For me it looks like it is both a part of cedet package and a standalonesemantic package.I would like to have most recent "intelligent jump" and auto completionfeatures of cedet (for C++). I use emacs (not Xemacs). What package should Iinstall ?great thanks for helpBiałe szaleństwo trwa!Dokąd w tym roku? Sprawdź trasy, wyciągi, oferty: http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=http://corto.www.wp.pl/as/narty2009-10.html=943
Re: [gentoo-user] xlsfonts shows only a few fonts
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I believe XFS is deprecated and has been removed from Gentoo recently (at least in ~unstable). See the comments in this bug for info maybe something to help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293177 if XFS is deprecated, what is the replacement? how can i get the fonts working in emacs? -- Best Regards, David Shen http://twitter.com/davidshen84/
[gentoo-user] [Chong Yidong] Re: bug#6987: 23.2; failure adding --group-directories-first to dired-listing-switches
Chong has fixed this *already*. allan ---BeginMessage--- Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu writes: emacs -Q (setq dired-listing-switches --group-directories-first -l) M-x dired Although typing s in dired correctly alternates the sorting between by name and by date, the mode line always says by date Thanks, I've checked in a fix. ---End Message---
Re: [gentoo-user] When ls command fails but only on $HOME
Am 01.11.2010 11:28, schrieb Harry Putnam: I can view the directory with emacs in dired mode but `ls' simply will not complete... never shows anything and stays hung indefinitely. [...] It only seem to happen on $HOME how very odd. Anyone else seen that or have an idea what might be the cause? No. But maybe 'strace ls' will show something? Is /home on a separate partition? I'd do a fsck on it. touch /forcefsck or use a live cd for this. Good luck, Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng
Hi Michael I have 1.9GB left and it works to create a new file. BTW: What means don't top-post if possible? From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 09:00:02 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: Hi the version of portage: Portage 2.1.10.11 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, 2.1.10.11 is the latest. So no error here glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 i686) USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf - ir doesn't work; same error Is there space left on the device? If so, does something like touch /var/tmp/portage/foo.stamp (as root) work? Nilesh, can you please be more explicite? Thank you! Best, Michael BTW: please don't top-post if possible. From: Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New gentoo installation fails when trying to install syslog-ng Hi, On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 08:01:56 Trifu Catalin Florin wrote: Hi everyone! I have a big problem trying to install Gentoo. I have completed all the steps from the manual, as I have did it so many times, and I'm stuck trying to install syslog-ng. The machine is very old, it has an Athlon processor and 256MB of RAM, but it worked fine with gentoo. The error can be seen bellow: snip The same error I get for vixie-cron. this is sys-devel/autoconf failing, building some emacs related things. Try USE=-emacs emerge -av1 sys-devel/autoconf If that works, add sys-devel/autoconf -emacs to /etc/portage/package.use Some other things worth mentioning: - portage didn't request for an update What version is installed? - mirrorselect -i -o faild with error: cannot download a list of mirrors or something similar. No idea. I will really appreciate your help as my server is down for two days now. Thank you! Best regards! Regards, Michael
[gentoo-user] WARNING dev-libs/icu-49.1 is BAD
Another scare. No emacs, no apache, gnome in trouble ... don't install icu-49.1 I was going to file a bug but I see that there are a few stating that some things fail with 49.1 so I don't know that my adding to the list will help. To see the list just ask for ALL icu I now have to reinstall everything that was installed after icu, or at least try them to see if they fail. allan
[gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde
On 2017-02-19, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And what pulls in NetworkManager? KDE's power manager with USE=wireless! I despise NetworkManager. Over the years, it has been the cause of countless problems and hours of wasted time. The first I do when dealing with network problems on *buntu systems is uninstall NetworkManager. > Yes! Madness. What's wrong with good ol' wpa_supplicant and its GUI? Which is spelled "emacs /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My haircut is totally at traditional! gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Why portage demands to unmask an unstable version of the package?
On Saturday 04 March 2017 10:40:06 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:09 AM, Marc Joliet <mar...@gmx.de> > > > > Does nobody think of searching bugs.gentoo.org anymore? It was an > > oversight: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611386#c6. > > Actually, most plain users won't remember or know that there is such a > thing. Your post may contribute to improve it. I know I'll remember. > But that doesn't mean it makes it easy: searching "vim-core-8.0.0386" > returns zero bugs. Searching "vim-core" returns several entries, one > of which seems related (if one happens to know that the problem is > related to gvim to start with, and assuming one is not daunted by a > reference to "acl"). I'm sure this just means I'm keyword-challenged, > but I bet I'm not the only one in the universe of plain Gentoo users. Yeah, searching bugzilla can be a pain sometimes. I make use of Gentoo's gitweb fairly regularly, and it provides a search function. For example: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/?qt=grep=vim will show the commits with "vim" in their summary, and the commit messages reference the relevant bug. Also, security bugs are often also stabilisation bugs, which can help in these specific cases. But yeah, that's just the reality of searching bug databases, I guess :-/ . > OK, everybody makes mistakes. But reading "use emacs" is bound to > touch a few cords. Even if it was said with a grain of salt, the fact > is that updating a stable system after sync'ing is not expected to be > a surprising experience, at least regarding packages that are not part > of a huge bundle like KDE. I agree, for example the ongoing gpgme issue has annoyed quite a bit. However, issues like that happen pretty rarely in my personal experience, which makes it more tolerable when they do (and it *was* resolved in about 28 hours, IME <48 hours is normal, often even <24 hours). And regarding the Emacs remark: as somebody who uses both Vim *and* Emacs (though mostly Vim), I just don't *care* about the whole Emacs vs. Vi(m) "debate". > Regards > > Jorge Almeida Greetings -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] etiquette on bgo
On Wed, May 24 2017, allan gottlieb wrote: > I am an emacs user patiently awaiting the stabilization of version 25.1 > on x86. I understand that I can install the testing version. > > On 10 feb Ulrich Müller (gentoo-dev) wrote in bug 608192 (a > stabilization bug) >Arch teams, please proceed > > On 23 feb arm ppc ppc64 went stable > On > > Since then nothing Please ignore I didn't mean to send. Sorry for the noise. allan
Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?
On 06/12/17 15:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: > - contents of /tmp are not expected to survive the invocation of the > program that created them > - contents of /var/tmp are not expected to survive a reboot That sounds completely wrong, actually. The contents of /var/tmp are expected to survive a system crash, as that is where vi, emacs, libreoffice et al are expected to store their recovery logs. Not much point putting the logs somewhere where they will be deleted by the very occurrence they are intended to protect against ... And yes, the rules for /tmp are "don't expect to find anything you put there will be there a few minutes later ..." :-) Cheers, Wol
Re: [gentoo-user] Console serial terminal/console with command history?
On 05/22/2018 11:54 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: Random thought: I have no idea if Plan9's terminal emulator has any features for this or not. It may be worth looking at. I believe it's been ported to Linux. You might also want to check out using vim or emacs as they have terminal emulators built in. They might be able to apply some command line history / editing (in a round about way). -- Grant. . . . unix || die
Re: [gentoo-user] What can cause printer to crop top of page?
I may be grabbing at straws here, but what happens if you print something in landscape? Is the trimmed edge the new top (long edge) or still the same short edge? Does the same happen with other apps? browser, emacs, gimp (just make a simple line drawing), pdf display, image viewer, ...? I'm thinking of printing things that originate as different image types - maybe one will behave differently and point to something in the process. Can you send a plain text file to the printer with lp?
[gentoo-user] TRAMP is not working
Hi all! After emerging new Emacs (v.26) I got TRAMP broken. I do not use it often, so I hit the problem only today. Instead of opening file it complains with the following message (regardless of protocols and local/remote files): "Couldn't find local shell prompt for zsh" I might be possibly doing something wrong, but before the update there were no issues. Reading TRAMP manual brought to me no enlightenment on what's happening either. Thanks ahead.
[gentoo-user] daemon fox?
Is it possible to start firefox as a daemon, ie. without opening any windows, and later connect to it as needed to display URLs? I have in mind something similar to "emacs --daemon". I had some hopes for "firefox --headless" but that doesn't do what I want: later "firefox $URL" will not connect to the running one but will start a new instance. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Console scrollback
On 1/13/21 4:06 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: I really should try to figure out a control-character that's not used by emacs or the tty driver I think there are very few, if any, keys used by the TTY driver. I suspect you are thinking of the line editor in the shell, e.g. readline. I can see how Control-S (XOFF) and Control-Q (XON) might be part of the TTY driver. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
Re: [gentoo-user] cgroups and OpenRC: Am I doing it wrong?
On 2021-07-15 09:58+0200 tastytea wrote: > […] did I do someting wrong? How can I check if my settings are > applied? I've tried to set the nice value of my emacs daemon with rc_cgroup_settings=" cpu.weight.nice -10 " /sys/fs/cgroup/emacs.tastytea/cpu.weight.nice shows -10 but htop says that the nice value is 0. -- Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tasty...@tastytea.de` or at <https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>. pgpt2i5zJfWCh.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP
Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!
On 10/2/24 23:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, gentoo. I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is $ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm . But for some reason, I typed $ find . '*.elc' | xargs rm . I even carefully checked it before pressing RET. However, press it I did, instantly deleting all files in my working directory. OUTCH! So, I fell back on my backup from last Sunday. After about 1½ hours trial and error, I had my source files as of last Sunday back again, though git could have been more helpful than it actually is. Thankfully, I had Emacs open, with all the files modified since Sunday in buffers. So, I laboriously worked through Emacs's buffer list, saving those ones I'd since changed. I lost all my timestamps on the files, and lost all my Emacs backup files (things ending in ~ which Emacs constantly makes). But my software builds and runs. It could have been a lot worse. Boys and girls, don't use $ find | xargs rm unless you really know what you're doing. And even then, it's probably better not to. ;-( It occurred to me fairly quickly after that press of RET that I could have done well with a COW snapshot facility, something which has been discussed at length on another recent thread. I even have LVM on my machine for its RAID capabilities. But I've never bothered before. I mean "I'm too careful", amn't I? ;-( At least I do a weekly backup, though. So, in the end I managed to recover fairly well, thankfully. No, you don't need a snapshot system - you need a proper backup system that stores the proper metadata. When I was experimenting with snapshots (btrfs and moosefs) at different times I lost everything a few times with filesystem corruption which meant I lost the snapshots too. Snapshots are NOT safe backups - treat them as a convenient copy ... BillK
Re: [gentoo-user] Don't be like stupid me!
On 2/10/24 07:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, gentoo. > > I was wanting to do a pretty full build of my Emacs working repository. > This involved first purging al *.elc files. The way to do this is > > $ find . -name '*.elc' | xargs rm > > Just as an aside: find supports the `-delete` action already, preferable to piping to `xargs rm` since it avoids accidents involving unusual filenames. Bonus: you can run `find something -print` first to verify what will be deleted, then swap out `-print` for `-delete`.
[gentoo-user] [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'
I didn't get much of a response on gmane.comp.kde.devel.kfm about this trouble I'm having with konqueror (although I was told on another kde group that was the place for it). I got one post that asked me for certain specific information which I supplied, but got no more replys (near 2 wks now). So noticicing some `konq' problems being discussed at: gmane.comp.kde.users.multimedia I tried there and got no response at all (3 days now). kde-3.5-8 desktop I want konqueror to invoke emacs (or at this point, any editor) when I choose to `View Document Source' from view menu. I'm told that kind of setting is done at the below location: In the Kcontrol settings: KDE Components/File Associations/text/plain No matter which one I choose (emacs, kwrite, kate) When I restart konq and try to view source... I just get the bouncing cursor that eventually times out but nothing ever comes up. I tried putting the absolute path in the dialog but it acts no different. All three of those editors start without error from the command line. I use emacs for many things so its always in working order. I also tried using the settings under KDE components/File Associations/text/html which I doubt is where this should be done but still setting any of the editors doesn't seem to help. The machine has been rebooted a time or two for other reasons but just letting you know that kde has been restarted but the problem persists. I'm told kde might write some errors to an ~/.xsessions* file. Or some ~/ file anyway. I'm not sure what filenames to look for but: I looked for files modified recently in ~/ that might have error information but I see nothing that looks likely. And nothing with a filename that looks promising. Apparently konqueror is not throwing errors but silently timing out. Can anyone think of a way to further trouble shoot this? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
Allan Gottlieb wrote: At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:46:28 +0930 Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My situation seems to be a little more difficult and I would appreciate some advice/help. I, like others, hit the expat problem and as directed did revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0 gettext failed to compile since emacs could not be run (libexpat problem). This I fixed by emerging gettext with USE='-emacs'. But now USE='-emacs' revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0 fails. It attempts to emerge x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.13 but that needs pango checking Pango flags... -DPNG_NO_MMX_CODE -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 configure: error: *** Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build *** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org Pango fails to emerge with the expat problem (/mnt/a/portage/tmp/portage/x11-libs/pango-1.16.4/work/pango-1.16.4/pango/.libs/lt-pango-querymodules: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) Thanks in advance for any help. allan Pango needs fontconfig, which you'll have to rebuild, too... There's a thread related to the expat update in the gentoo forums: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-448550-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html It seems to me the problem is still the same as it was back then.. Which leaves me recompiling most of my system :( I hope the link helps :) Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble
At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:26:07 -0700 Brian Wince [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:09 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble Yesterday's update to ssh (openssh-5.1_p1-r1) is giving me trouble. The client is allan. The server is ajglap. From the client (gnome-terminal) I can run ssh as follows [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh ajglap Last login: Tue Oct 28 11:50:02 EDT 2008 from allan on ssh Last login: Tue Oct 28 11:54:33 2008 from allan xhost: unable to open display [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ adding a -Y gives the same output But I can't run other server programs from the client. The following used to start emacs on the server displaying a new X11 window on the client. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -Y ajglap emacs emacs: standard input is not a tty [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ removing the -Y gives the same output I went to the server and created ~/.ssh/config with contents ForwardX11Trusted yes But this didn't help (I also tried the risky ForwardX11). I am planning to downgrade, but wanted to ask here first if I have just misconfigured something (bugs.gentoo.org didn't seem to have anything relevant). thanks, allan Is X11Forwarding yes set in the sshd_config on ajglap? It is now! thanks, allan
RE: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble
-Original Message- From: Allan Gottlieb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:09 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] ssh trouble Yesterday's update to ssh (openssh-5.1_p1-r1) is giving me trouble. The client is allan. The server is ajglap. From the client (gnome-terminal) I can run ssh as follows [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh ajglap Last login: Tue Oct 28 11:50:02 EDT 2008 from allan on ssh Last login: Tue Oct 28 11:54:33 2008 from allan xhost: unable to open display [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ adding a -Y gives the same output But I can't run other server programs from the client. The following used to start emacs on the server displaying a new X11 window on the client. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ssh -Y ajglap emacs emacs: standard input is not a tty [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ removing the -Y gives the same output I went to the server and created ~/.ssh/config with contents ForwardX11Trusted yes But this didn't help (I also tried the risky ForwardX11). I am planning to downgrade, but wanted to ask here first if I have just misconfigured something (bugs.gentoo.org didn't seem to have anything relevant). thanks, allan Is X11Forwarding yes set in the sshd_config on ajglap? brian
Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab
On Tuesday 15 November 2005 05:13 pm, Bryan Whitehead wrote: I still don't understand the logic of not having vi installed by default over nano... Ummm Maybe because it's so dirt simple to figure out that you don't need to have a manual on how to use it when you first get started? I mean, there's a lot to be said for having an onscreen reference for how to invoke commands. vi and emacs are both POWERFUL, but they aren't very friendly to someone who doesn't use them often enough to know the commands by heart. I know I should learn emacs and vi, but it's always just easier to pop open nano (or pico) real fast and make changes there. And if I'm doing anything larger, I'm using Kate or something else like it. Or if I'm on a Windoze machine, Crimson Editor or something similar. While you can get versions of vi and emacs for Windoze, they aren't the editors of choice by any means. And if you want to attract converts from the Evil Empire, you can't be expecting them to know the cryptic commands of vi on day one. Nano, while not as powerful as the others, is very simple to use - allowing you to actually make it through an install to the point where you can get something better working. Just my .02c on the matter. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gentoo and Emacs in a terminal and intellisense-like functionality.
I've a few vaguely related questions. I'm an Emacs user from a decade ago - and have recently returned to using it... I'm trying to set it up as a useful modern development environment. I'd have chosen Eclipse, or something like that, if it wasn't for a constraint that I need it to work remotely (in a terminal) without resorting to X; VNC etc. There are two things I'd like to do, but on which I'm not getting very far very fast... I'd be interested to know if other Gentoo users have any hints or tips. I'd really like to have Intellisense-like behaviour - i.e. I've entered an object name when editing C++ - and I want to see a list of methods/attributes for that object... then, having chosen one, I want to see the arguments and types it requires. I'm aware of [CE]tags - though understand this facility to be somewhat more basic. I've read a little about Semantic, and I've installed app-emacs/semantic from portage... but can't see how to encourage it to do what I want. Any hints? The other thing I'd like to do is allow cursor positioning by clicking with a mouse. I realise that this isn't traditionally considered possible... but I'd like a facility in my terminal window a bit like gpm on the linux console. Is this viable today? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix
2006/6/1, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Using eix for some time (at least a year now), I discovered today (eix-0.5.5) a very strange feature which and in less perfect world than gentoo's might perhaps qualify as a bug. If I type eix package and the package is unstable (or has unstable versions) and appears as such in the gentoo database, I expect to see it -for the unstable versions- in eix's output: the man page says so anyway; but this happens only if I have not marked the package with ~x86 in *my* /etc/portage/package.keywords file. If I mark the package (with ~x86) eix tells me : * app-editors/emacs-cvs Available versions: 22.0.50-r1 22.0.50-r2 [M]23.0.0 Installed: 22.0.50-r2 Homepage:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs Description: Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. and this is a *big lie* (works with any package apparently). Or is it intended? Hi, add LOCAL_PORTAGE_CONFIG=false in /etc/eixrc and try again ! (it's not a bug, it's a feature ! :D) Regards, Boris. -- Jean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Quiconque me parle de Dieu en veut à ma bourse ou à ma liberté. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange feature in eix
Le 01 juin à 20:57:49 Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | 2006/6/1, Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: | Hi all, | | Using eix for some time (at least a year now), I discovered today | (eix-0.5.5) a very strange feature which and in less perfect world than | gentoo's might perhaps qualify as a bug. | | If I type eix package and the package is unstable (or has unstable | versions) and appears as such in the gentoo database, I expect to see it | -for the unstable versions- in eix's output: the man page says so anyway; | but this happens only if I have not marked the package with ~x86 in *my* | /etc/portage/package.keywords file. If I mark the package (with ~x86) | eix tells me : | | * app-editors/emacs-cvs | Available versions: 22.0.50-r1 22.0.50-r2 [M]23.0.0 | Installed: 22.0.50-r2 | Homepage:http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs | Description: Emacs is the extensible, customizable, | self-documenting real-time display editor. | | and this is a *big lie* (works with any package apparently). | | Or is it intended? | Hi, | add LOCAL_PORTAGE_CONFIG=false in /etc/eixrc and try again ! (it's not | a bug, it's a feature ! :D) Thanks Boris for the explanation, I hadn't noticed; not sure this should be the default feature though... cheers -- Jean -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] emerge -D pulling in more than it should these days?!
-Original Message- Portage is developing quite fast at the moment so it is quite possible that you have discovered some change in behaviour (either due to a bug or due to permanent changes) but I don't see anything wrong in this mail... What makes you think it pulls in more stuff than it should? I thought it was pretty obvious, but to summarize: emerge -av sys-apps/baselayout Is just that. The baselayout. But when I do emerge -Dav sys-apps/baselayout It pulls in baselayout, python, perl, openssl (clearly the last two are not needed or related to baselayout) Which just so happens to be the exact same thing if I do emerge -Davu sys-apps/baselayout On my older Gentoo server, typing either of the first two work exactly as expected and only pull in the single package. So in summary, -D is acting like an implied -u (or something to that effect). 'baselayout' is only one example. Here's another one, but the list goes on and on. Openssl should not require Perl in this case. locutus ~ # emerge -av dev-libs/openssl [ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8d [0.9.8c-r2] USE=zlib -bindist -emacs -sse2 -test 0 kB locutus ~ # emerge -Dav dev-libs/openssl [ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8d [0.9.8c-r2] USE=zlib -bindist -emacs -sse2 -test 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2 [5.8.8-r1] USE=berkdb gdbm -build -debug -doc -ithreads -perlsuid 0 kB locutus ~ # emerge -avu dev-libs/openssl [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r2 [5.8.8-r1] USE=berkdb gdbm -build -debug -doc -ithreads -perlsuid 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8d [0.9.8c-r2] USE=zlib -bindist -emacs -sse2 -test 0 kB -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question
Tom Naujokas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2006-27-12 at 12:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...[snip]... Are you using [Xe]macs in console mode or in an xterm .. other? I'm starting xemacs from an xterm with the command xemacs . What is the output of `alias|grep ls'? $ alias|grep ls alias d='ls --color' alias ll='ls --color -l' alias ls='ls --color=auto' But still, wouldn't commands like ls or gcc need the terminfo in order to know the correct escape sequences to generate for that internal terminal? I am not an expert and not an Xemacs user... I use fsf emacs since 1996. However my terminfo has no entry for emacs either and I do not see the escape sequences so I think the answer to above question is no. You might have a lisp package called ansi-colors.el in your Xemacs installation. Run this command against the directory that holds all the Xemacs source lisp files (ending in *.el *.elc) find YourLispDirectory/ -iname '*ansi*' And see if it is available. If so I think it will do what you need for now. But I do beleive something in your env is causing the trouble. For expert advice on this I suggest you post a question on: gnu.emacs.xemacs newsgroup. You can get to that newsgroup on www.gmane.org to. Its called: gmane.emacs.xemacs.general Someone there will be able to give you expert advice. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --oneshot vs emerge --uDvp differences
Ed Jabbour wrote: emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r2, as directed in the GLSA, returns a download for xemacs, which I do not now or ever had installed. It is not in use flags. However, an emerge -uDvp python doesn't even mention xemacs. Any clue as to why the difference? Any problems if the --oneshot is not used? Thanks. Try running: emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose --tree =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r2 to see what package wants to install xemacs Btw: here it's: [ebuild N] dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r2 +X +berkdb -bootstrap -build -doc +gdbm +ipv6 +ncurses -nocxx +readline +ssl -tcltk -ucs2 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-libs/readline-5.0-r2 1,777 kB [ebuild N] app-shells/bash-3.0-r12 -bashlogger -build +nls 2,404 kB [ebuild N]sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r6 -bootstrap -build -debug -doc +gpm -minimal -nocxx +unicode 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r4 +emacs (-selinux) 561 kB [ebuild N] app-editors/emacs-21.4-r1 +X -Xaw3d +gnome -leim -lesstif +motif +nls -nosendmail 19,925 kB if you count emacs and xemacs as equivalent. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Dalrymple wrote: There you don't have to ask for permission and a simple diff can reveal the changes whenever I want. A simple diff is all that's done right now (well, basically at least; basically etc-update can be seen as a sort of front-end to diff). To throw my two cents in here, I'd like etc-update to use vimdiff, which is another front-end to diff, and much more intuitive to me. However, doing so would probably enrage emacs users, who, presumably, have a front-end to diff from emacs as well; so maybe an option for vimdiff or emacs-diff -- I bet either would be better than the current script. --David David, - From /etc/etc-update.conf: snip # vim-users: you CAN use vimdiff for diff_command. (see NOTE_1) #diff_command=vim -d %file1 %file2 #using_editor=1 diff_command=colordiff -uN %file1 %file2 using_editor=0 # vim-users: don't use vimdiff for merging (see NOTE_1) merge_command=sdiff -s -o %merged %orig %new /snip You can see here that you *CAN* use vimdiff, I personally use colordiff which you can see above. HTH - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEsSjIFN7pD9kMi/URAmn2AJoCs07KzgLkqiTbb/zmnT1i5iPNFgCfYW9a JZLAHyEhGsvVkeBdss8wK5Q= =/qHY -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor
On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-10-03, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but at least it seems to be safe. It doesn't trash my file every 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode. Honestly -- I've used vi infrequently but regularly (probably several times a month) for decades, and my brain just doesn't work the way vi does. What editor do you prefer, then? I'm an emacs guy. I've been using emacs (or various clones such as jove and jed) for 25 years now. IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe as an alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been making a little effort in the last year or two to come to grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard shortcuts. I don't have any problem learning keystrokes. I do have problems with vi's modality. That's just one of the things I dislike about vi and all the vi clones out there. To me it is like the difference between edit to live and live to edit. It's a good editor and I respect people who like and use vi, but I refuse to use it unless there's absolutely no other option. -- Jesús Guerrero
Re: [gentoo-user] xlsfonts shows only a few fonts
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58:27AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: I believe XFS is deprecated and has been removed from Gentoo recently (at least in ~unstable). See the comments in this bug for info maybe something to help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293177 if XFS is deprecated, what is the replacement? how can i get the fonts working in emacs? xfs should not be necessary. I am on ~x86, and Chinese characters works. xlsfonts -l lists all available fonts (though personally I prefer using xfontsel since it doesn't lock up the system the same way), more lines than there can fit in my rxvt buffer. Are there any font-related messages in the Xorg logs? You really need to provide a LOT more information before we can help you: (1) Any interesting log messages from Xorg? (2) Config files for Xorg? (3) emerge -pv of the relevant packages? (4) Error messages from emacs? (5) Since you stated emacs and not xemacs, are you running it in a terminal emulator in X? and if so, which one? These are just some of the ones that comes to mind, feel free to add more information that you think may be useful. Cheers, W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
[gentoo-user] Re: emacs font problem
On 2010-07-09, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com writes: Recently emacs (running in X window mode) seems to have developed a font problem. Perhaps it is a font issue. Yes, I think it probably is. I just did emacs -q (-Q eliminates the splash screen) and then did C-u C-x = while the cursor was on the b in Learn basic keystroke commands. The help buffer includes display: by this font (glyph code) xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 (#x45) What does C-u C-x = give on your system character: b (98, #o142, #x62) preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point: 0x62 syntax: wwhich means: word category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman buffer code: #x62 file code: #x62 (encoded by coding system nil) display: no font available and do you have that font available? No, I don't seem to have Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1 availble according to xfontsel. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My polyvinyl cowboy at wallet was made in Hong gmail.comKong by Montgomery Clift!
[gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?
On 2011-02-06, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into it? 3) If possible, I can compile right in the IDE. Emacs. If you dare to go this way. The learning curve is high, but once you know how to use it, you probably will be glad. Eclipse is pretty cool, and I've heard good things about Kdevelop. I've starting writing something. It's hundreds of lines long in 1 file and I just messed up a brace somewhere which I haven't been able to figure out in vi. Just use the % key. I specifically _don't_ want a high learning curve. I want this to remain fun, if possible. Ah. Then you picked the wrong language, you should be using Python. (I'm only half joking.) I use emacs as well. I tried eclipse, but found it huge, slow, clunky, and I ran into compatibility problems between versions. I went back to emacs. I also tried visual slick edit, and it's pretty nice, but it didn't seem worth the hassle of dealing with the licensing. The Scite editor is pretty decent (I really like the folding feature), but I haven't used it much. -- Grant
Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:35:37 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr): It occurred to me that having a decent C and C++ editing environment might ease some of my of the spoilage I've experienced in Visual Studio for C++. I'll be checking it out. It'll mean learning emacs, though... If you like Visual Studio, try Geany or KDevelop. The former is a Gtk+ program, so runs natively under GNOME, Xfce and LXDE, while the latter is a Qt suite that runs natively under KDE. Both are *way* slicker than Emacs or vim, but do require a graphical desktop. [Both vim and Emacs can run in a text console.] I'm not touching KDE again for a while. I got nailed pretty bad with a NVidia/Konsole/KWin, and I really wasn't using much of KDE. That said, I might poke KDevelop again; I haven't poked it in years. Geany is new since I last dug around. I do like text environments, though. You might also start reading comp.os.linux.development.apps on Usenet, if you don't already do so. Keeping up with this list is hard enough! But, thanks. :) -- :wq
Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)
2011/9/15 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:35:37 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re: Really
OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr):
It occurred to me that having a decent C and C++ editing environment
might ease some of my of the spoilage I've experienced in Visual
Studio for C++. I'll be checking it out. It'll mean learning emacs,
though...
If you like Visual Studio, try Geany or KDevelop. The former is a Gtk+
program, so runs natively under GNOME, Xfce and LXDE, while the latter
is a Qt suite that runs natively under KDE. Both are *way* slicker
than Emacs or vim, but do require a graphical desktop. [Both vim and
Emacs can run in a text console.]
I'm not touching KDE again for a while. I got nailed pretty bad with a
NVidia/Konsole/KWin, and I really wasn't using much of KDE.
That said, I might poke KDevelop again; I haven't poked it in years.
Geany is new since I last dug around.
I do like text environments, though.
You might also start reading comp.os.linux.development.apps on Usenet,
if you don't already do so.
Keeping up with this list is hard enough! But, thanks. :)
--
:wq
I do not know the state of Geanny since I last checked (couple of years
ago), but the highlight capabilites of KDevelop got my eye. It highlights
local variables in different colors in the same context, so something like
int foo(float bar, float baz) {
}
will have bar and baz in different colors. Also, support for CMake in
KDevelop got really great and useful. Plus, it supports debugging inside the
editor. Its awesome.
--
Leonardo
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME
On 07/31/2013 03:25 AM, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 31/07/2013 09:48, Michael Orlitzky wrote: I want to become a dev, what's my next step? There is none. Help out, and maybe someone will notice you? Ok, I'm on it. Been doing it for years, and I know several other people in the same situation. It doesn't work, and recruitment numbers are plummeting. There needs to be an explicit, documented process. I agree, it's not really concrete. Which projects/areas are you usually involved in? I'm not heavily involved in any one project. I proxy maintain, * net-dns/djbdns * net-dns/rbldnsd I wrote at least three programs that are in the tree whose maintenance I would be happy to take over: * xfce-extra/xfce4-hdaps * sys-apps/apply-default-acl * app-emacs/nagios-mode In sunrise, I have, * app-antivirus/clamav-unofficial-sigs * net-mail/amavis-logwatch * net-mail/postfix-logwatch Lately I've been submitting things to the gentoo-haskell overlay. Most haskell ebuilds can be generated automatically, so this is simply a matter of running hackport merge program, and sending a pull request. Another program I wrote lives in the overlay: * net-misc/hath And I would be happy to maintain a number of Haskell libraries that I use in my day-to-day-development (mostly numerical stuff and deps of my programs). In my personal overlay, there are a few more packages: * app-emacs/vbnet-mode * app-emacs/visual-basic-mode (bug #445370) There are a few minor bugs in my bugzilla list that I could easily take care of. Long-term, I have a professional interest in fixing mpm-itk in apache-2.4.x.
[gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com writes:
On 03/08/13 06:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
No doubt suffering from overdose of pilot error here but on a new (in
progress) install of gentoo as guest in vbox. I ran the command
emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be
installed.
Try disabling all flags and see where that gets you. You can do that
with a single command:
USE=-blksha1 -curl -gpg -iconv -pcre -python -threads -webdav -cgi
-cvs -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gtk -highlight -nls -perl -ppcsha1
-subversion -test -tk -xinetd emerge -p dev-vcs/git
Hehe, alright, now we're talking that reduced dependancies to just
1 lonesome cpio.
,
| vgen ~ # USE=-blksha1 -curl -gpg -iconv -pcre -python -threads
| -webdav -cgi
| -cvs -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gtk -highlight -nls -perl -ppcsha1
| -subversion -test -tk -xinetd emerge -vp dev-vcs/git
|
| These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
|
| Calculating dependencies... done!
| [ebuild N ] app-arch/cpio-2.11-r1 USE=-nls 995 kB
| [ebuild N ] dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2 USE=-blksha1 -cgi -curl -cvs
| -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gpg -gtk -highlight -iconv -nls -pcre
| -perl (-ppcsha1) -python -subversion {-test} -threads -tk -webdav
| -xinetd PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 -python2_6
| PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 -python2_6 4,900 kB
|
| Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 5,895 kB
`
Now, is it reasonable to install that way? Will I run into some
horrible unsightly mess using git, when installed this way.
[gentoo-user] Contradictionary reports from eix/emerge
Hi,
after updateing I have run (beside others) this command:
eclean-dist -C -d -v
and got:
The following unavailable installed packages were found
sys-devel/autoconf-2.13
Running
eix sys-devel/autoconf
and got
[U] sys-devel/autoconf
Available versions:
(2.1) 2.13-r1
(2.64) 2.64-r1
(2.69) 2.69-r4
() **
{emacs USERLAND="BSD"}
Installed versions: 2.13(2.1)(01:46:26 PM 09/15/2018)(USERLAND="-BSD")
2.69-r4(2.69)(09:29:15 PM 01/02/2019)(-emacs)
Homepage:https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html
Description: Used to create autoconfiguration files
which is in sync wth the abouve.
But when I do
emerge --selective=n -va sys-devel/autoconf
I get
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R] sys-devel/autoconf-2.69-r4:2.69::gentoo USE="-emacs" 0 KiB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
Why will autoconf be RE-installed. This version isn't installed at
all. Why do I get '[ebuild R]' instead of an update?
How often do I need to reinstall autoconf until it will not be
reported back as being old and no longer in the database.
(I checked it...it is not masked.)? ;)
Thank you very much in advance for any help!
Cheers!
Meino
[gentoo-user] KDE plasma desktop view shows files that don't exist
Checking here for any ideas or suggestions before I report as a KDE bug. I have my KDE Plasma desktop set to show my ~/Desktop folder. Two days ago, I created a script.pl Perl script in that folder. (No, I don't generally do work in that folder, but I just needed a quick script to deal with a file I had just downloaded there.) After editing that file in emacs, a script.pl~ also showed up on the Desktop. However, so did a file #script.pl#, and actually I now have three files showing that name. The original and the emacs backup also show up in Dolphin and an "ls" command in a terminal. None of the "#" files do, however, which is expected, as there are transient working files only during an active emacs session. Trying to edit one (double click) from the desktop opens an empty file, and right clicking and selecting Properties shows the correct info as of when the file actually existed - but if I ask for any checksums, they show up as blank fields. I've looked, and have not found any relevant bug on the KDE bugzilla. (As it's not likely a Gentoo bug, I don't see any point in filing at b.g.o.) Has anyone else noticed this? Can anyone else reproduce it? Thanks for any feedback. Jack
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Weird graphical glitches after world update
walt wrote: On 11/21/2013 01:38 PM, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On 21/11/2013 17:10, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote: Greetings, I spent a chunk of yesterday updating world on my machines (2 file servers and 1 netbook) and with some effort, the updates went through. I had to go out today so I rebooted my netbook and I started noticing weird graphical glitches in certain applications, as if parts of the screen weren't updating, namely in urxvt and emacs. In urxvt, my shell prompt seems to not render the cursor and often keeps the letters I remove still on the prompt (only graphically, they aren't actually there). This is extremely annoying. It's also terrible in emacs: cursor sometimes doesn't get rendered and I get tons of artefacts from different buffers when I switch or from text I was editing. You can find an example image of such glitches in emacs at [1]. This is absolutely tragic for me as I spend majority of my time in emacs. I'd like to note that I'm running emacs in a graphical frame and not in a terminal. A quick note to say that you are not alone, I get this as well since about 6 weeks ago (a ~amd system). So it's not something you and just you managed to do, I got it as well. In my case it's as if the system's idea of what is on the screen is off by one row of pixels. I get a stray row of dots at the top of lines that correspond to the risers of glyphs on the previous line, and new underscores don't show up until I enter a newline. This is a mostly KDE system using konsole, so it's not the terminal emulator or editor that's the root cause. Some may recall I have posted about similar issues in the past. Heck, I still do when I upgrade the drivers. I'm stuck using a older driver but still run into the issue every once in a while. The biggest giveaway for me is that my clock is stuck. I have mine set to show seconds and it either stops or the time sort of jumps several seconds at a time. It's weird but as Alan said, it is not just you. You got plenty of company on this one. One other possibility is that xorg updated something that broke some video drivers. Maybe qlop -l xorg would give you a hint about when your video problem first appeared? In my case, it is the video drivers. On another thread, someone else has ran into a similar issue. Also, I am one of those that does a emerge -e world when in doubt. Sometimes that works. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
[gentoo-user] Crap is being added to site-gentoo.el
Hi,
I'm seeing crap being added to site-gentoo.el whenever it is being
touched by an emerge. My current site-gentoo.el look like:
snip
;;; cedet site-lisp configuration
(load /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/cedet/common/cedet)
;; If you wish to customize CEDET, you will need to follow the
;; directions in the INSTALL (installed in the documentation) file and
;; customize your ~/.emacs /before/ site-gentoo is loaded.
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B9c´µ8a©0F593¶jÑA¶}÷¸ÞºþÞʺÔ2S¡¨öIåCr91!÷,^E /ÖBcMùå^Bo
LN[^WÁ^D9e^\L8eqE^Xr0^E9f%¸þ?¯92ÛjG9a^O:ÔiþÑ-´[EMAIL PROTECTED]@
;;; emacs-w3m site-lisp configuration
(add-to-list 'load-path /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacs-w3m)
(setq w3m-icon-directory /usr/share/pixmaps/emacs-w3m)
(require 'w3m-load)
snip
Do anyone has an idea of why this is happening?
Thanks,
jules
# emerge --info ##
omc-2 ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4,
2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 252
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:20:01 +
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils: 2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=amd64
AUTOCLEAN=yes
CBUILD=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe
CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
CONFIG_PROTECT=/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild
/etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c
CXXFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe
DISTDIR=/usr/portage/distfiles
FEATURES=distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
GENTOO_MIRRORS=http://mirror.muntinternet.net/pub/gentoo/
http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/
http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/;
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8
MAKEOPTS=-j3
PKGDIR=/usr/portage/packages
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS=--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages
--filter=H_**/files/digest-*
PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/var/tmp
PORTDIR=/usr/portage
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage
SYNC=rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
USE=X aac aalib acl alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr cli
cracklib crypt cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread emacs fam fbcon firefox foomaticdb
fortran gdbm gnome gpm gtk gzip-el hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libg++ midi mmx
mp3 mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp oss pam
pcre pdf perl png portaudio pppd python readline reflection session spl sse
sse2 ssl tcpd tetex theora toolkit-scroll-bars truetype-fonts type1-fonts
unicode vorbis wma xine xorg xvid zlib ALSA_CARDS=emu10k1
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS=adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file
hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route
share shm softvol ELIBC=glibc INPUT_DEVICES=evdev keyboard mouse
KERNEL=linux LCD_DEVICES=bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001
mtxorb ncurses text USERLAND=GNU VIDEO_CARDS=nv nvidia vesa
Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS,
PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool
At Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:46:28 +0930 Shawn Haggett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sven Köhler wrote: emerge gnome fails. Does anyone recognize what portage is complaining about here? I'm not really sure, but I solved it by reemerging dev-perl/XML-Parser. expat has been updated. Some Apps are now broken. They have to recompiled to link against the new libexpat. For me, it was gettext and XML-Parser that had to be re-emerged. Without it, emerging gnome failed. Same here. Remerged dev-perl/XML-Parser, then my update world failed at a different point complaining about gettext, remerged that and now the update world is compiling normally. My situation seems to be a little more difficult and I would appreciate some advice/help. I, like others, hit the expat problem and as directed did revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0 gettext failed to compile since emacs could not be run (libexpat problem). This I fixed by emerging gettext with USE='-emacs'. But now USE='-emacs' revdep-rebuild -X --library libexpat.so.0 fails. It attempts to emerge x11-libs/gtk+-2.10.13 but that needs pango checking Pango flags... -DPNG_NO_MMX_CODE -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 configure: error: *** Can't link to Pango. Pango is required to build *** GTK+. For more information see http://www.pango.org Pango fails to emerge with the expat problem (/mnt/a/portage/tmp/portage/x11-libs/pango-1.16.4/work/pango-1.16.4/pango/.libs/lt-pango-querymodules: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) Thanks in advance for any help. allan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel update messed up console encoding
Dear Sebastian, thank you for your thoughts. I am afraid switching to UTF-8 for everything, although I see that this is the sound thing to do eventually, is not currently an option for me - there are far too many things which depend on that. (Also, it would tend to obscure or complicate the problem rather than fix it, since Emacs obviously gets confused by the console behaviour). there still is /etc/conf.d/consolefont that could mess up things The only variable that's set there is CONSOLEFONT=cp1250. I would not understand how the font could have an influence on the characters *produced* by the console, and it seems also difficult to explain why the shell and Emacs, which of course use the same console font, behave differently. (Under the shell, it looks fine while you type it, i.e. you cannot tell that your u umlaut actually consists of two bytes. But Emacs displays the lower-case umlauts followed by a space (i.e. two characters, but not those that most of us are probably quite familiar with, i.e. which you see when UTF-8 is displayed as if it were ASCII), while for upper-case umlauts and the eszett complains that e.g. \204 is undefined.) It definitely looks to me as if the core of the problem is what the console produces, not what it shows, i.e. what a keypress produces. The variable CONSOLETRANSLATION is commented out, meaning I am using the default one, whichever that is. As to the locale, where can I look that up ... ? I seem to remember I purposely use no locale (or C, I think), but I don't remember where I set that. CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT is indeed different for the two kernels, but not in a way that seems to explain anything, as those two encodings differ only on a few positions (not umlauts or eszett): linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7: iso8859-15 linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8: iso8859-1 Also, I think what I said last time holds: that only applies to filenames in the filesystem, doesn't it? I'll follow your suggestion and re-post the problem on gentoo-user-de, although I think running into that sort of problem might happen to anybody who uses a European language other than English (one of those covered by iso-8859-1, more precisely), so comments here are still welcome! But who still sometimes uses the console, except me? I think I'll also write a small script that compares the settings in the two kernel .configs systematically. Could also be of use for later kernel updates ... Thanks very much! Florian
Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ?
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 01:42:32PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I'd put money on it being considered part of system because it provides virtual/editor, which is part of system. In /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals , it says virtual/editor app-editors/nano there's no mention of Joe. In the ebuild it specifies PROVIDE=virtual/editor the virtual/editor thing in the profiles just specifies that the default install will use app-editors/nano to satisfy the virtual/editor requirement in system. If you have ANYTHING at all that provides virtual/editor, it will satisfy the system. But at the same time, if you want to unmerge anything that provides virtual/editor, the warning will come up. For example, currently, on my desktop, [02:21 PM]wwong ~ $ emerge search nano Searching... [ Results for search key : nano ] [ Applications found : 4 ] * app-editors/nano Latest version available: 1.3.7 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 985 kB Homepage:http://www.nano-editor.org/ Description: GNU GPL'd Pico clone with more functionality License: GPL-2 [02:22 PM]wwong ~ $ cat /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals | grep editor virtual/editor app-editors/nano virtual/emacs app-editors/emacs virtual/xemacs app-editors/xemacs [02:19 PM]wwong proto-gen $ emerge --pretend virtual/editor These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-editors/gvim-6.3.084 So... although nano is the default editor it is not installed on my system. And I have at least gvim to satisfy the virtual/editor requirements in system (though I usually use vim, which also satisfies the requirement). In fact, if you grep virtual/editor /usr/portage/app-editors/*/*ebuild you'd see that easyedit, elvis, emacs, gvim, jed, joe, nano, ne, nvi, teco, vile, vim, xemacs all provide that function. So in short, just go ahead and unmerge Joe if you aren't going to use it. W -- There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind. - This line perhaps best sums up the whole book. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 23 days, 21:21 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do I really need 194 pkgs to install git?
Am Fri, 02 Aug 2013 20:22:09 -0400
schrieb Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com:
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com writes:
On 03/08/13 06:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
No doubt suffering from overdose of pilot error here but on a new (in
progress) install of gentoo as guest in vbox. I ran the command
emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be
installed.
Try disabling all flags and see where that gets you. You can do that
with a single command:
USE=-blksha1 -curl -gpg -iconv -pcre -python -threads -webdav -cgi
-cvs -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gtk -highlight -nls -perl -ppcsha1
-subversion -test -tk -xinetd emerge -p dev-vcs/git
Hehe, alright, now we're talking that reduced dependancies to just
1 lonesome cpio.
,
| vgen ~ # USE=-blksha1 -curl -gpg -iconv -pcre -python -threads
| -webdav -cgi
| -cvs -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gtk -highlight -nls -perl -ppcsha1
| -subversion -test -tk -xinetd emerge -vp dev-vcs/git
|
| These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
|
| Calculating dependencies... done!
| [ebuild N ] app-arch/cpio-2.11-r1 USE=-nls 995 kB
| [ebuild N ] dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2 USE=-blksha1 -cgi -curl -cvs
| -doc -emacs -gnome-keyring -gpg -gtk -highlight -iconv -nls -pcre
| -perl (-ppcsha1) -python -subversion {-test} -threads -tk -webdav
| -xinetd PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python2_7 -python2_6
| PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 -python2_6 4,900 kB
|
| Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 5,895 kB
`
Now, is it reasonable to install that way? Will I run into some
horrible unsightly mess using git, when installed this way.
I think that depends entirely on how exactly you plan on using git, for example:
- python and perl seem to control additional python and perl packages, but
they are also used by some commit hooks and scripts
- tk is required for the gitk GUI (which is useful for browsing history)
- gpg is required for gpg commit signing
- cvs and subversion are only needed for the git-cvs and git-svn commands
Otherwise, I'm not entirely sure what you would be missing through such, uh,
radical minimalism ;) ; equery uses git is your friend for some of the
other flags, e.g., curl is required for http[s]:// repository URLs.
HTH
--
Marc Joliet
--
People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't - Bjarne Stroustrup
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerging virtual/editor installs nano - why?
Hello. On Dec 7, 2007 3:56 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7 Dec 2007, at 13:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: Emil Beinroth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a virtual/editor package in the tree, that selects nano as the default choice. How does it do that? How do I make it select something else? I think you simply emerge vi (or vim or emacs or joe or whatever) and then portage will no longer try to emerge nano (or any other editor). Yes, I know. That's one way. But why am I able to preselect the virtual/mta by editing the virtuals file and why can't this same thing be done for virtual/editor? Basically, I'd like to *preselect* what should be taken as a virtual. Best regards, Alexander
[gentoo-user] Any glaring use flags here
This machine is been prepped to be a sort of DMZ machine, but not more wannabe than really since it will not route stuff to my home lan at all... just be the recipient of all blocked stuff at an upsteam NETGEAR firewall/router. I would like an opinion about the USE flags I keep in /etc/make.conf I've pared it down from a more extensive list with some quite old stuff on it. Just wanting to make sure there is no glaring incompatability. I remember seeing something about the nptl and nptlonly flags being outdated. Is that right? And I'm pretty sure -gnome -kde and -X is little overboard... but not sure what -X really does. USE=mysql emacs mbox hal acpi logrotate vga nptl nptlonly \ -ipv6 -imap -maildir -gnome -X -kde -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:48:00 pm Grant Edwards wrote: snip Of course that's not be the same thing as practical for some machines (I believe my OOo emerge just passed hour 31). It would be interesting to know how much further it's go to go, but as long as it's done in a week or so that'll be good enough. I remember building binutils, gcc, X11, emacs, and so on from sources on a 25MHz 68000 with 4MB of RAM -- that took some patience as well. Have a look at the 'genlop' package.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sandbox Violation
On 17:16 Tue 10 Feb , Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Thomas Kahle wrote: Hi everyone, recently I killed a running merge of app-emacs/auctex with C-c in the shell. Now after that I am not able to install the package anymore. I get a sandbox when kpathsea is run. Just a shot in the dark, but try this as root: rm -rf /var/tmp/portage/* and then emerge again. Please type the above command very carefully; if you introduce a space by mistake it will be not good :P That worked, Thanks. -- Thomas Kahle The fundamental theorem of algebra is open source. Like any other mathematical theorem it can be applied free of charge and everybody has access to its proof and can convince himself how it works. Why should software be any different? pgpXcNAZ4H7rk.pgp Description: PGP signature
