Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 6:19 AM, andy pugh wrote: > On 14 September 2015 at 11:15, Mark Wendt wrote: >> Oh hell no! I'm a moderator over at CNCZone, and even I don't read >> all the posts in all the forums I'm responsible for. Just too damn >> many of

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On 14.09.15 10:01, Sven Wesley wrote: > A few questions at cnczone have been unanswered and I've replied that > the OP should join the mailing list to get an answer. Every time I've > got shitty replies about being an arse and mailing lists are from the > stone age. One thread ended with the OP

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

2015-09-14 12:49 GMT+02:00 andy pugh : > > At the other end of the spectrum, Gmail also does this very well. > > Gmail also makes it easy to do do selective quoting, just click "in" > the message you want to reply to, select the text you want to quote, > and press the "reply"

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

2015-09-14 12:28 GMT+02:00 Erik Christiansen : > > > This over-the-hill contributor doesn't do fora <> > With mutt, mail threads can be initially displayed collapsed, with any > you've contributed to shown in a different colour. I salute you for tool of choice!

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On 14 September 2015 at 11:28, Erik Christiansen wrote: > With mutt, mail threads can be initially displayed collapsed, with any > you've contributed to shown in a different colour. At the other end of the spectrum, Gmail also does this very well. Gmail also makes it

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On 14.09.15 11:49, andy pugh wrote: > On 14 September 2015 at 11:28, Erik Christiansen > wrote: > > With mutt, mail threads can be initially displayed collapsed, with any > > you've contributed to shown in a different colour. > > At the other end of the spectrum, Gmail

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On 14/09/15 13:05, Erik Christiansen wrote: > Another thing I like about maillists is the ease of making a lurker's > archive. I've squirrelled away the most informative LinuxCNC posts in > 429 topic-specific mailboxes. How would one do that with a forum? I've coming up on 20 years of email

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On Monday 14 September 2015 06:49:22 andy pugh wrote: > On 14 September 2015 at 11:28, Erik Christiansen > > wrote: > > With mutt, mail threads can be initially displayed collapsed, with > > any you've contributed to shown in a different colour. > > At the other end of

Re: [Emc-users] Glade display of an active gcode

Andy, This is the output, and while there is no guarantee and apparently no documentation :-(, this leads me to believe the active g-codes are ordered: … (0, 800, -1, 180, 400, 200, 900, 940, 540, 490, 990, 640, -1, 970, 911, 80) (0, 800, -1, 180, 400, 200, 900, 940, 540, 490, 990, 640, -1, 970,

Re: [Emc-users] Glade display of an active gcode

On 14 September 2015 at 15:16, Tom Easterday wrote: > This is the output, and while there is no guarantee and apparently no > documentation :-(, this leads me to believe the active g-codes are ordered: My point is that your code shouldn't assume that they are ordered. Using

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

The worst forum software I ever encountered was what Baen Books uses on their Baen Bar. I don't know what they use *now* but the two systems I did use were flat out horrible. They attempted to integrate e-mail lists with a forum. Of course there were massive problems. Users could subscribe to

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

2015-09-13 21:41 GMT+02:00 andy pugh : > On 13 September 2015 at 20:31, Jim Craig > wrote: > > I use both the forum and the mailing list. > > So do I. But I personally prefer mailing lists. > > I've seen a few pretty funny arguments IMO about

Re: [Emc-users] 2.7.0 Docs

On Monday 14 September 2015 15:12:44 John Thornton wrote: > It says PDF Viewer 0.1.8 A lightweight PDF viewer. then something > about Emma's Software. > > JT > Thanks John. But does that run on linux? But actually, the problenm is solved by blacklisting kpdf, it is, in the version I have,

Re: [Emc-users] 2.7.0 Docs

It says PDF Viewer 0.1.8 A lightweight PDF viewer. then something about Emma's Software. JT On 9/13/2015 1:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > And that pdf viewer is called? -- ___

Re: [Emc-users] Glade display of an active gcode

On 14 September 2015 at 02:56, Tom Easterday wrote: > Thanks Andy that works. John Thornton also suggested the same thing on the > IRC... Is there a document that describes the possible values for a given > attribute returned by the Python interface? The last value in the

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 3:41 PM, andy pugh wrote: > I wonder > if anyone reads everything that goes to CNCzone? > > -- > atp Oh hell no! I'm a moderator over at CNCZone, and even I don't read all the posts in all the forums I'm responsible for. Just too damn many of them.

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On 14 September 2015 at 11:15, Mark Wendt wrote: > Oh hell no! I'm a moderator over at CNCZone, and even I don't read > all the posts in all the forums I'm responsible for. Just too damn > many of them. Whereas I do read everything posted to LinuxCNC mailing lists and

Re: [Emc-users] mailing list vs forum

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Sven Wesley wrote: > I've seen a few pretty funny arguments IMO about mailing lists recently. A > few questions at cnczone have been unanswered and I've replied that the OP > should join the mailing list to get an answer. Every time I've