Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Dear FreeBSD experts, >> >> There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find >> a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special >> cha

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Chad & all, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Dear FreeBSD experts, >> >> There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find >> a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input s

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:57:31PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares > > wrote: > >> Dear FreeBSD experts, > >> > >> There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear FreeBSD experts, > > There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find > a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special > characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. http://www.forlang.wsu.ed

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:57:31 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Thanks Frank & Polytropon for your input. I have students that bug me > with how to put the characters on their responses to their instructors > on the web pages via email. I tell them to open OpenOffice and insert > Special Characte

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> Dear FreeBSD experts, >> >> There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find >> a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special >> charac

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear FreeBSD experts, > > There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find > a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special > characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. >

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD experts, > > There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find > a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special > characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates O

Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp accents other symbols like

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:45:38AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:53:39PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:18:07 pm Bob Hall wrote: > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:36:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: i don't see any ascii suffix [for OOo]. i saved as .txt. This should be right. The .txt extension refers to ASCII text, at least in standard-compliant operating systems. same krap. the \x94, x9d, \x9

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:45:38AM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > Another possibility, if you haven't considered it, is using sed to > convert everything. If you know all the characters that need to be Never mind. I just remembered about the garbage at the beginning of doc files. I had forgotten that I

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:53:39PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:18:07 pm Bob Hall wrote: > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. > > > that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. > >

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 May 2010 16:36:08 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > i don't see any ascii suffix [for OOo]. i saved as .txt. This should be right. The .txt extension refers to ASCII text, at least in standard-compliant operating systems. > same krap. the \x94, x9d, \x9c... same with catdoc.

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Thursday 27 May 2010 05:18:07 pm Bob Hall wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. > > that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. > > Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special c

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 04:36:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > ps: antiword same as catdoc. back to my per substitutions. > that works, along with vi's Builtin subs. Have you considered using whatever replaces the most special characters, and fixing the few characters that remain with

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:03:02AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010 18:38:47 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > guys, > > > > is there anything that can take these hex triplets such as > > > > We Don\xe2\x80\x99t > > > > and render them back to the ascii or keyboard equivalent

Re: any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 May 2010 18:38:47 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > guys, > > is there anything that can take these hex triplets such as > > We Don\xe2\x80\x99t > > and render them back to the ascii or keyboard equivalents? > in this case, the \x99 would be an apostrophe. > thus: > > > We Don't >

any shortcuts to doc to ascii?

2010-05-26 Thread Gary Kline
guys, is there anything that can take these hex triplets such as We Don\xe2\x80\x99t and render them back to the ascii or keyboard equivalents? in this case, the \x99 would be an apostrophe. thus: We Don't tia, gsry ps: even lynx -dump messes up, i believe. i'm trying to go from DOC bac

Re: Terminal / vim / shortcuts

2009-06-14 Thread Daniel Underwood
Thanks for these great answers! I already use a customized .vimrc file. So I can just add the mappings to this file, instead of to .exrc, right? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Terminal / vim / shortcuts

2009-06-14 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:18:02 -0400, >> Daniel Underwood said: D> I edit python code in vim using Terminal on xfce. I find myself, not D> surprisingly, having to exit "insert mode" and save changes frequently D> (when making code changes and wishing to test the immediate effects of D> the cha

Re: Terminal / vim / shortcuts

2009-06-14 Thread John Almberg
I edit python code in vim using Terminal on xfce. I find myself, not surprisingly, having to exit "insert mode" and save changes frequently (when making code changes and wishing to test the immediate effects of the changes in a separate terminal). This requires pressing 4 keys: "esc", ":",

Re: Terminal / vim / shortcuts

2009-06-14 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hi, Am Samstag, 13. Jun 2009, 20:18:02 -0400 schrieb Daniel Underwood: > I edit python code in vim using Terminal on xfce. I find myself, not > surprisingly, having to exit "insert mode" and save changes frequently > (when making code changes and wishing to test the immediate effects of > the cha

Re: Terminal / vim / shortcuts

2009-06-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 08:18:02PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I edit python code in vim using Terminal on xfce. I find myself, not > surprisingly, having to exit "insert mode" and save changes frequently > (when making code changes and wishing to test the immediate effects of > the changes i

Terminal / vim / shortcuts

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel Underwood
I edit python code in vim using Terminal on xfce. I find myself, not surprisingly, having to exit "insert mode" and save changes frequently (when making code changes and wishing to test the immediate effects of the changes in a separate terminal). This requires pressing 4 keys: "esc", ":", "w", a

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-04 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/4/05, Robert Marella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Music cd's can not be mounted. However in gnome, if you use the gnome audio tools, like totem?? you do not need to mount, it will automatically start playing. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Marella
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 19:15:21 -0500 paul thodiyil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Format Recovered...Please do not top post. > On 11/3/05, Robert Marella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:41:24 +1100 > > paul thodiyil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know how to

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Robert, thanks. I chanted ten times, but I was only able to create desktop folders with these names (floppy, dvdrom, ...). I could not get get them to 'mount' the device. For. eg i placed DVD in the drive, clicked on the newly created DVDROM folder on the desktop - but did not reveal the DVD conten

Re: creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 02:41:24 +1100 paul thodiyil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for > commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB > compact flash card reader. > FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 > Many thanks mkdir ~/D

creating gnome desktop shortcuts for floppy, DVD rom and compact flash card reader

2005-11-03 Thread paul thodiyil
Does anyone know how to create shortcut icons to the gnome desktop for commonly used devices such as floppy drive; cd/DVD rom drive and USB compact flash card reader. FreeBSD 6.0 RC1; AMD64 Many thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Shortcuts

2005-08-18 Thread Carstea Catalin
Please tell me some shortcuts ( standard ) from keyboard in freebsd ( console and KDE ). Tks! i.e.: alt+F1. - for first console -- Any help would be greatly appreciated. regards, Carstea Catalin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Keyboard shortcuts for x windows system

2004-06-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-06-19 21:08, Douglas Korinke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running FreeBSD 4.9 and am trying to find a list of keyboard shortcuts > to help me exit the x windows system without the help of the mouse. CTRL+ALT+Backspace should bring down the ent

Keyboard shortcuts for x windows system

2004-06-19 Thread Douglas Korinke
Running FreeBSD 4.9 and am trying to find a list of keyboard shortcuts to help me exit the x windows system without the help of the mouse. Thanks again, Doug ICQ : 26096369 AIM : itss0lidstate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Copying shortcuts in KDE

2003-06-02 Thread Mark Rowlands
On Sunday 01 June 2003 4:38 pm, Steven Lake wrote: > Hi all. I installed OpenOffice recently and had to install it as > root. Problem with this is none of my user accounts have the shortcuts in > them for OpenOffice, however Root does. does anyone know how to copy the > Ope

Re: Copying shortcuts in KDE

2003-06-02 Thread Daniela
e 2003 14:38, Steven Lake wrote: > > > Hi all. I installed OpenOffice recently and had to install it as > > > root. Problem with this is none of my user accounts have the shortcuts > > > in them for OpenOffice, however Root does. does anyone know how to > > > c

Re: Copying shortcuts in KDE

2003-06-02 Thread Tim Kellers
ay 01 June 2003 01:11 pm, Daniela wrote: > On Sunday 01 June 2003 14:38, Steven Lake wrote: > > Hi all. I installed OpenOffice recently and had to install it as > > root. Problem with this is none of my user accounts have the shortcuts > > in them for OpenOffice, however Root d

Re: Copying shortcuts in KDE

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Lake
to install it as > > root. Problem with this is none of my user accounts have the shortcuts in > > them for OpenOffice, however Root does. does anyone know how to copy the > > OpenOffice menu tree (the folder and all the links under it) that appear > > in the KDE menu edito

Re: Copying shortcuts in KDE

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Lake
Office recently and had to install it as > > root. Problem with this is none of my user accounts have the shortcuts in > > them for OpenOffice, however Root does. does anyone know how to copy the > > OpenOffice menu tree (the folder and all the links under it) that appear > >

Re: Copying shortcuts in KDE

2003-06-02 Thread Daniela
On Sunday 01 June 2003 14:38, Steven Lake wrote: > Hi all. I installed OpenOffice recently and had to install it as > root. Problem with this is none of my user accounts have the shortcuts in > them for OpenOffice, however Root does. does anyone know how to copy the > OpenOffice me

Copying shortcuts in KDE

2003-06-02 Thread Steven Lake
Hi all. I installed OpenOffice recently and had to install it as root. Problem with this is none of my user accounts have the shortcuts in them for OpenOffice, however Root does. does anyone know how to copy the OpenOffice menu tree (the folder and all the links under it) that appear in

Re: Shortcuts in KDE/Gnome

2002-10-07 Thread Chris Snyder
Lord Raiden wrote: > Silly me, but how do you make a shortcut to a program you just > installed? I keep forgetting. It seems that after each time I > install a new app on my desktop machine I have to create a shortcut to > it, but I keep forgetting how. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks

Re: Shortcuts in KDE/Gnome

2002-10-07 Thread Andrew Gould
I'm assuming you're talking about icons on the desktop rather than a menu item in the start menu. In KDE: 1. Right click on the desktop 2. Select Create New/Link To Application 3. Fill out the fields in the various tabs (Mostly self-explanatory) Best of Luck, Andrew Gould --- Lord Raiden <[EM

Shortcuts in KDE/Gnome

2002-10-07 Thread Lord Raiden
Silly me, but how do you make a shortcut to a program you just installed? I keep forgetting. It seems that after each time I install a new app on my desktop machine I have to create a shortcut to it, but I keep forgetting how. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send