Executing 'apt-cache search tesseract' brings up a multitude of
packages.
My need is simple enough, I think: I like to scan (using an
Epson scanner) pages of printed books -- almost one hundred per
cent text -- and then use OCR to produce pages from which I can
copy 'n paste snippets of text
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
And the only reason ROOT access is more dangerous than, say,
QSECOFR access on OS/400 (or whatever IBM is calling it this
week) is because there's nothing stopping a Linux ROOT from
doing things *nobody* should be allowed to do without putting
How do I tell sudo not to ask me for my password?
It's me. I'm on my computer. I already logged in with my
password. No one else is logged on.
I know all you purists out there are rending your garments if
not your flesh. but c'mon sudo! Can't a brother catch a break
around here?
Thank
On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't understand what you are trying to do. Do you want to:
This one:
* create a bootable USB on another OS to boot (the USB) and
install Linux on some other system, or
--
...a society must incorporate the rationalizing
power symbolized
On Fri, 24 Sep 2021, T. J. du Chene wrote:
Bob, I don't want you to think I am writing you off.
No worries.
My concern is not with Windows.
All best,
--
...a society must incorporate the rationalizing
power symbolized by scientific knowledge, for
otherwise it will be a fatally split
Is there a favored HOW-To or wiki page describing the care and
feeding of USB sticks intended to boot a linux system into some
other OS?
Thanks,
--
...a society must incorporate the rationalizing
power symbolized by scientific knowledge, for
otherwise it will be a fatally split society-
split
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021, Michael Lange wrote:
according to https://ice-wm.org/man/icewm-preferences the
syntax for using a bold font should rather be:
ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft=”sans-serif:size=12:bold” .
Ah. RTFM still applies.
That did the trick for me. Thank You Sir!
I have some doubt
Thanks to those who chimed in!
My focus today is on those lines in ~/.icewm/preferences that
specify fonts for the task bar. I have in mind such statements
as:
NormalTaskBarFontNameXft="DejaVuSans-Bold,sans-serif:size=18"
ActiveTaskBarFontNameXft="DejaVuSans-Bold,sans-serif:size=18"
I
Here's what I have onboard now after upgrading to bullseye:
cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="11"
VERSION="11 (bullseye)"
VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye
ID=debian
I have never had a situation wherein the number of workspaces in
the
On Wed, 11 Aug 2021, Charles Curley wrote:
The signal to noise ratio is getting pretty bad around here.
"Around here?"
Every poster brings to the list a bit of the world-at-large as
they are experiencing it. This occurs quite outside of conscious
control. It is pre-reflective behaviour.
On Tue, 10 Aug 2021, Roger Price wrote:
Young Stefan had fingers so fast
No filename was safe from the blast
When emacs was "e"
It was easy to see
sud(o)ers was not meant to last
This is fabulous. With two you get egg-roll, but with
debian-user you get a...LIMERICK!
Who knew?
THANKS
My copy (buster amd64) of lines 23-24 of /etc/sudoers looks like
this:
23 # Allow members of group sudo to execute any comm$
24 % sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
Is that '%' a comment char? The line numbers shown were provided
by nano. I know, I know, please keep reading.
Full disclosure: In a
On Tue, 20 Jul 2021, Reco wrote:
It has nothing to do with the kernel module status. I'd blame
your ISP first, and the code quality of kernel module second.
I don't have any intuitive "feel" for kernel processes i.e. I am
unable to discern or even form a small hunch that a given effect
I am
/var/log/kern.log contains these lines:
Jul 19 09:15:38 debian kernel: [69157.444725] wireguard: module
verification failed: signature and/or required key missing -
tainting kernel
Jul 19 09:15:38 debian kernel: [69157.449554] wireguard:
WireGuard 1.0.20200712 loaded. See www.wireguard.com
On Fri, 21 May 2021, Siard wrote:
My suggestion would be to set the message text to a
fixed-width font. Preferences > Mail & Newsgroups > Message
Display > set Font to Fixed Width. Preferences > Appearance >
Fonts: set font size next to Monospace. And keep the minimum
font size at a lower
I have a mystery tool-bar that has invested itself in my SM
browser window. It is under my Tab Bar, is in grayed-out text,
but the buttons can be read:
Top Up First Previous Next Last Document More Subscribe
Please share your reflections, assuming of course that they
would not be actionable
On Thu, 20 May 2021, Siard wrote:
[Settings]
gtk-font-name = Liberation Sans 12
BINGO!
Remedied almost everything. Fixed-width fonts in the body of
text-based emails were still too small until I found
Preferences->Appearance->Fonts could set a value for 'minimum
font size,' which got
I downloaded the binary from seamonkey-project.org, and untarred
the bz2 archive. Praise be to whatever Powers and Principalities
were involved, but the thing started right up without so much as
a hiccup. What wonders!
Is it me, or does the 'Mail/Newsgroups' window sport a group of
fonts
On Wed, 19 May 2021, Richard Owlett wrote:
I've been getting SeaMonkey from there since days of Squeeze
[now running Buster] without any problems.
Yes. They don't distribute debs, but they do distribute binary
versions with install procedures.
Not sure which route I should take, binary
On Tue, 18 May 2021, Siard wrote:
I wrote:
You can simply download Seamonkey deb's from here:
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
Correction: those are .tar.bz2 packages.
Getting older. Age takes its toll, I guess.
Understood.
I'm so old I just noticed your two posts to the
On Wed, 19 May 2021, Bret Busby wrote:
https://wiki.debian.org/Seamonkey
Bingo.
A very recently updated page with instructions for adding a
(EEK!) third party repo to one's sources.list.
Thanks!
--
RSB
'$ sudo apt-cache search seamonkey' does not turn up the
browser/email "suite."
My spidey sense suggests that the Subject: question, probably as
a consequence of the internal logic (for lack of a better term)
of the unixen "package" situation, is at best moot, and at
worst, confused.
Pls.
On Mon, 17 May 2021, didier gaumet wrote:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_computer_playback_on_linux.html
Much of the focus of the above is setting PulseAudio to launch
as a system-wide service, for all users, but it goes on to say
that if you make that choice, rather
Buster amd64:
$ uname -a
Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
4.19.171-2 (2021-01-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ dpkg -l |grep audacity
ii audacity 2.2.2-1+b1
amd64fast, cross-platform audio editor
ii audacity-data
Thanks to all for your responses!
--
"No matter how big the problem is, you can always run away from it."
Dom Irrera
As noted, is there a minimum bs size for dd?
Thank you.
--
I draw from the absurd three
consequences, which are my revolt,
my freedom, and my passion,
Camus
Thank you all. For reasons completely beyond my grasp I selected
'teapot' for further investigation despite there being as far as
I can tell no deb for it.
Oh well.
9-)
--
RSB
Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was
VisiCalc. Simple.
Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely
on all the baggage associated with either an "office suite," or a
"desktop environment?"
Thx,
--
"...that there is no getting away from the central
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo
but one time it came thru
in a pinch.
Why give up on the search engine merely because a
rogue util has gone goofy?
I went looking for duckduckgo search syntax and
found what I need, which is
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
I had the same experience. Gave up on duckduckgo but one time it came thru
in a pinch.
Why give up on the search engine merely because a rogue util has
gone goofy?
I went looking for duckduckgo search syntax and found what I
need, which is not
I have v. 1.6 via apt-get on an uptodate buster amd64 system.
Every attempt to run a search yields "No results," even if I
specify 'Boston Red Sox'.
Recommendations? Calm soothing thoughts?
Thank you.
--
RSB
On Fri, 25 Dec 2020, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
Perhaps what you have to do is to change the shape of your
terminal's cursor, and nano inherits it.
Firstly, thanks to ALL of you who took time out on this holiday
to answer my (pretty dumb) question!
I'm certain this is one of those things I
This question could not possibly be more OT, but banking on the
yuletide spirit and the generally benign mood of most on this
list, I make so bold as to pose it thus, bluntly.
I have prowled in 'man nanorc' for some time now...
Thank you,
--
A person of great honour in Ireland (who was
Unsurprisingly, at least in my (perhaps jaundiced?) view, running
ikiwiki out of /var/www/html resulted in much snappier
behaviour:
http://trollboy.ddns.net:8080/Bob2084/posts/first_post/
--
These are not the droids you are looking for.
So I have an install of Ikiwiki limping along. I know ikiwiki is
a bear of a package to maintain, since it depends at least half
of all known perl modules. To get where I am tonight I had to go
out and apt-get libcgi-session-perl and libcgi-formbuilder-perl.
I suspect the deficiencies I'm
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote:
According to (1) you should use:
% ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup"
I went back and began again. I appear to have been much more
successful. The fly in the ointment now is that although the
needed cgi file was created, my system seems to
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote:
According to (1) you should use:
"% ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command
instead.
% ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup"
I used the latter of the two above methods to create my initial
setup
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote:
From /home/bob I run:
$ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers
and see this error:
"cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such
file or directory"
Does the directory exist?
No. If I create it, and then run the ikiwiki setup
Using apt-get I have ikiwiki 3.20190228-1 on an amd64 Buster.
From /home/bob I run:
$ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers
and see this error:
"cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such
file or directory"
Here is the top of that Bob2021. setup file. I hope I have
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, Brian wrote:
It is permitted! You get to keep any broken bits, of course!
Hrrmm...I read your observation as a cautionary tale. Perhaps
I need to investigate this a bit further, with, for example, the
vendor of the application that requires that "Wireguard" stuff.
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
URL doesn't open for me either. It looks like this
ppa was removed and "now been folded into Ubuntu
itself". [1]
[1] https://launchpad.net/~wireguard
Ah...thanks for finding the way into that rabbit-hole.
Do you think it is permitted for
At least, that's my diagnosis.
Here's the pertinent line from an entry in my
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wireguard/wireguard/ubuntu focal main
Here's the output of 'apt-get update':
--snip--
0% [Working] 0% [Connecting to debian.map.fastlydns.net (2a04:4e4
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Bob Bernstein wrote:
PATH=/home/bob/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
I examined su(1) and learned that one solution for me is to
invoke su with the '-l' argument, which creates a 'login' shell
in the new env. This sets, for me, the PATH to
'/usr/local/sbin
Here I've been sailing along blissfully unaware that when on
those rare occasions I execute su in a terminal, say to tweak my
exim4 config, that I had a pretty much useless PATH in the env
after su-ing:
PATH=/home/bob/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games
So I could not, say, execute
On Mon, 19 Oct 2020, The Wanderer wrote:
Actually, "rebase" isn't a Debian term at all; it's a git
term.
Ah, thus explaining why I found said term vaguely unpleasant.
To install that package and let the upgrade go forward, you
have a few options. The simplest, and the one I go with
I am trying to meet the challenge of the security upgrade --
[SECURITY] [DSA 4774-1] linux security update -- that
was issued today.
This is an AMD Buster system:
Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
4.19.98-1+deb10u1 (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have noticed for
Running up-to-date Buster here, amd64:
Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
4.19.98-1+deb10u1 (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I have moved to a display manager (wmd), so is my xrdb
~/.Xresources line (xrdb ~/.Xresources) in .xinitrc being called
into the loop, so to speak?
Not really whither, but when?
Is there a um consensus on when bullseye might see the light of
day? We have this on debian.org:
"The next release of Debian is codenamed "bullseye" — no release
date has been set "
https://www.debian.org/releases/
Perhaps I could get a line on this from Vegas.
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, didier.gau...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps wdm would be of interest for you:
https://packages.debian.org/buster/wdm
Bingo!
This is exactly what I was looking for, and more. The install
was like butter, even offering a selection of which display
manager was to be default.
Can xdm be cajoled into displaying "Reboot" and/or "Shutdown"
buttons on its welcome screen?
(By which odd choice of words I mean the principal screen
presented by xdm at X start-up time, e.g. the one which queries
the user for credentials.)
Thank You
--
What can be asserted without
I _think_ my upgrade from Jessie to Stretch -- which entailed
installing systemd for the first time on this box -- introduced
that 8.8.8.8. into my config. I've never been at a loss to
select my own nameservers, and that never has been one of them.
I was not even aware of that other file
SOLVED, I think.
After all the reading you guys gave me I sat pondering this
morning, and it dawned on me that if I looked at 'interfaces'
and found that darn 8.8.8.8 ip in there, that I might have the
clue I needed.
Sure enough, there it was, for eth0. I commented it out and
added a line
I've begun a new thread to add some back-story to my "Which
resolv.conf file?" inquiry. *Thanks* to all who have chimed in.
nb. Judah: If "DE" means "desktop environment" then I don't
think I have one. I run the minimalist icewm, and I do not have
network manager installed.
I do not want to
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
It depends a lot on what combination of packages you have installed and
are using.
Starting with the obvious ones, please show the output of:
Ok. One dotted-four required obfuscation in my humble
judgement. I hope I got your list correctly:
$ apt
Sorry! Switched machines and lost track of who I was!
-- Forwarded message --
From: Bob Bernstein
To: Debian User List
Subject: Re: Which resolv.conf file?
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 02:37:40
User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01)
On Wed, 31 Jul 2019, Andrei POPESCU wrote
I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I
come across it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be
destroyed and the linux gods angered.
What is the approved method for changing the list of DNS servers
called upon by, in my case, Stretch on amd-64?
(Is there
I am in my new-ish:
Linux debian.localdomain 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
4.9.168-1+deb9u3 (2019-06-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux
I seek to edit a DocBook XML file in emacs23. The file
begins:
Does that seem okay? However, trying out autocompletion
with Esc-TAB gives me the error message noted in my
On Sun, 23 Jun 2019, Bob Bernstein wrote:
How should I approach this change with an eye to maximum
safety?
Again, the wiki proved spot on:
https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_and_Testing
Sorry about the false alarm.
Thank you
--
These are not the droids you are looking for.
I encountered an error during the install of a deb which
led me to the discovery that my current init system is
still sysvinit.
The error was:
/sbin/init: invalid option -- '-'
Usage: init {-e VAR[=VAL] | [-t SECONDS]
{0|1|2|3|4|5|6|S|s|Q|q|A|a|B|b|C|c|U|u}}
Thanks to the wiki:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019, bw wrote:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_Themes#X_resources
This link was the catalyst needed to propel me into solving my
problem, which involved commands such as:
# apt-get install xcursor-themes
# update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme
Is it
This package has been one of the few casualties in my Jessie to
Stretch upgrade. Joey's notes for it are here:
/usr/share/doc/big-cursor/README.Debian
...and per Joey I have rem'd out the offending line in
/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources:
#Xcursor.theme: whiteglass
Yes, as luck would have it, when
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, Felix Miata wrote:
The gods of security have decreed that instead of startx you
must use a display manager to login and start your X session.
This statement had such a clear veridical ring to it I realized
it would be foolish to submit myself, all of you, and the cat,
I put this into google: "systemd X windows Debian" and was
brought here:
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch07.en.html
I executed the suggested command:
# dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low x11-common
...and then decided to throw all caution to the winds:
# startx
Saints Be
I don't know if this made it to the list.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Bob Bernstein
To: Debian User List
Subject: Re: Okay, let's get X workingg on my new Stretch
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:45:01
User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01)
More data:
-snip-
$ startx
X.Org
On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 04:21:31PM -0400, bw wrote:
> You usually would not need an xorg.conf do you have
> firmware-amd-graphics installed for the radeon board?
Here's what I show:
# dpkg -l |grep firm
ii firmware-amd-graphics 20161130-5
all Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics
More data:
-snip-
$ startx
X.Org X Server 1.19.2
Release Date: 2017-03-02
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 x86_64 Debian
Current Operating System: Linux debian.localdomain 4.9.0-9-amd64
#1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u3 (2019-06-16) x86_64
Kernel
The mouse proves elusive:
# dmesg |grep -i mouse
[2.645218] mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[3.225344] psmouse serio1: logips2pp: Detected unknown
Logitech mouse model
90
[3.722367] input: ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse as
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, Andy Smith wrote:
I'd be interested in seeing your routing table (the "ip route
show" command I mentioned before).
You must have your Jedi robes on. "These are the ip show
commands I mentioned before."
But you didn't mention 'ip route show,' else I would have
provided
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, Andy Smith wrote:
What happens if you try to ping something? Like:
It is the ping failures that give me the most angst, since I am
one of those people who, almost the first thing they'll do, if
you sit them down at a computer keyboard, is try to ping
somebody. I
On Tue, 18 Jun 2019, Andy Smith wrote:
Possibly your network interface has changed name due to
persistent naming? In any case, please can we see the contents
of your /etc/network/interfaces file...
/etc/network/interfaces
-snip-
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your
Stretch is installed with a shiny new kernel. Stretch doesn't know
how to boot up while turning networking "on" in the process. X
doesn't work now either.
So, any hints about networking?
--
What can be asserted without evidence can be
dismissed without evidence.
On Mon, 17 Jun 2019, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 02:20:33PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
Full disclosure: I have not kept up. Are there resources,
wikis, etc, dedicated to Upgrading Debian For Dummies?
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch
For a change, I want to proceed with a tad of caution
rather than follow Don't RTFM - Wing That Sucker.
I have an old Jessie running:
Linux debian.localdomain 3.16.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.59-1 (2018-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
...and it has been borne in on me that my kernel needs to
be
Thank you guys!
On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 03:36:24PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> This could have been communicated or handled a bit more > smoothly.
Can I safely assume you are referring to how the organization handled it, and
not my email?
All best,
--
"In our age there is no such thing
Greetings earthlings!
I am running an old Jessie I refuse to let go of, on an
amd64. # uname -a
Linux debian.localdomain 3.16.0-7-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.59-1 (2018-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Here is the apt-get update output error:
W: Failed to fetch
On Mon, 22 Apr 2019, Siard wrote:
Even simpler: Ctrl-Q makes it quit. (Calibre 3.39.1,
testing)
Egad! Who knew? I trust that is documented in some easily
accessible reference document, yes?
Thank you!
--
Fraught with portent
Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui?
Thank youse.
--
"In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of
politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics
itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and
schizophrenia."
George Orwell "Politics and the
On Fri, 29 Mar 2019, John Hasler wrote:
I am trying to convince people not to be deterred from
trying it because of myths such as "You can't use Emacs
if you can't program in Lisp".
That last claim is really, really far from the truth. I
know one of the old LISP programmers from the Kendall
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
On Sunday 09 December 2018 13:03:53 J.Arun Mani wrote:
I'm making a project(using Python3)
First, I fail to see why you should even be able to lock a
computer away from its user. Thats the first question
thatought to be answered.
I think it's
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 07:37:44PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> They are inherently inaccessible to people with visability
> issues, such as blindness.
Fer sure; I'm one of those. My vision is sufficiently impaired
that a) the State of Rhode Island refuses to issue me a driver's
license, and
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 10:35:33AM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> I get more off lists e-mails suggesting paths to work around the
> captcha *nothing* you can suggest is an option.
So, now that you've acquired a satisfactory agent, I will take the
conversation a step further. Evidently, now,
On Mon, 10 Sep 2018, pjw wrote:
Since July ProtonMail is now fully interoperable with
other PGP mail clients.
Now that is a nice piece of news.
--
Fraught with portent
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, Curt wrote:
You are far from the most egregious participant but are a
participant nonetheless, and more than once.
You're *counting*?
You point the finger and accuse, but are not complicit in the
crime? This is a pose very familiar to all students of
Nuremberg.
--
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:
It prevents the deletion of emails that the same login client,
on a different box setup for imap, from losing their email
corpus.
This sounds like "I'm from the government. I'm here to help you
not harm yourself."
It's just more dumbing down to the
About this ISP that prevents fetchmail from deleting messages
after they're downloaded, may one ask, "Cui bono?"
How is it in their interest to provide this um feature?
--
Poobah
On Sun, 22 Jul 2018, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-mplayer-playing-audio-dvd-cd-using-bash-shell/
proposes option "-cache 5000":
mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/sr0 cdda:// -cache 5000
Joy reigns supreme in Mudville!
It has dawned on my somewhat dimmed (due to
Firstly, *thank you* to all who chimed in with analysis and
suggestions! This list is the best. I will present an update on
my efforts and a bit more data.
Update: I think it was Nicholas last night who mentioned the
'cdda://' type of URL. Today I noticed on mplayer's man page
this line:
I'll try to provide some useful signs/symptoms of the
particular difficulty. The principal message I get is:
--start snip--
bob@debian:~$ mount /dev/sr0
mount: /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/sr0, missing codepage or
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, songbird wrote:
i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch
and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at
all and it just works.
I tried the "no setting in .muttrc" and that did the trick.
Which strikes me as sorta weird, but then, with so much
weirdness around
On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, David Wright wrote:
According to my key bindings, you should press i when in the
compose menu [...]
Yes, my 'help' there also shows i associated with ispell. But
pressing i only causes the screen to blip very momentarily
without showing any ispell activity and then
Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell
working. Currently I have in .muttrc:
set ispell="ispell --mode=email"
This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high
spirits that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails.
Alas and alack. these arrived at their
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Teemu Likonen wrote:
In XTerm you can also toggle that feature by pressing Ctrl and
left mouse button and select "Meta Sends Escape".
Wonderful! Works like a charm! I will add to my .Xresources
because at my um advanced years um I can quickly forget a little
wrinkle like
When I boot my Jessie it brings me, as desired, to a bash
command line prompt (no X at this stage of the game).
If I then launch the jed editor (or emacs -nw) from that prompt,
pressing Alt-x on the keyboard, produces the M-x prompt where
jed wants it.
I then can enter startx and arrive in
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
Why not just killfile me and go on reading everyone else?
Umm...cuz he doesn't know how to do that? Perhaps?
One thing's fer sure, he's giving the time-honored tradition of
killfiles a bad name!
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Almost forgot: in mc's "Options" drop-down menu, uncheck "Use
internal editor."
(My taste is to use mc's internal viewer, so I leave that box
checked.)
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Put in your ~/.bashrc lines like this:
export EDITOR="vim.tiny"
export VISUAL=$EDITOR
Exit the current login session and then log in again, or load
the new contents of ~/.bashrc with
$ . ~/.bashrc
Convince yourself that all is well in the environment with:
$ env
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote:
ask the Universal Debian Database whether it's known to be
impossible to do so.
Ok, I'll bite. What is "the Universal Debian Database?"
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On Sun, 2 Oct 2016, Liam O'Toole wrote:
At the risk of stating the obvious ... an 'apt-get update' is
required first.
Stating the obvious is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
I'm trying to make a Pat 'n Mike joke out of this, but the thing
eludes me.
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On Sat, 1 Oct 2016, Ric Moore wrote:
Surprise, my sources list reflected Jessie, not Stretch or
Sid. I FIXED that.
Did you run an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' after making changes to
sources.list?
Hang in there.
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On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Not really. Which version of psgmlx are you using?
What problem(s) did you encounter with it?
Most of the details are on the deb-doc list now. Basically,
emacs24 can't handle the old elisp in psgmlx, hence my need for
an older version of emacs.
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