On or about Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:48:50PM +, Redvers Davies typed:
>If you run enlightment as a windowmanager you can use the URL
>epplet. You simply highlight the URL (or a lump of text which contains
>a URL) and click "www", "ftp" or "get". WWW opens up a web browser,
>ftp opens up an x
> to delete the URL in a browser window and then paste. Being
> able to click it and then hit ^V is *much* nicer (in Windows)
> than this manual delete time wastage.
If you run enlightment as a windowmanager you can use the URL
epplet. You simply highlight the URL (or a lump of text which contai
* Benjamin Holzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:15:26PM -0500, Benjamin Holzman wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:07:38PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > > Linux UI question (on Debian/KDE laptop right now): If I copy
>^^^
> > $ s
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:15:26PM -0500, Benjamin Holzman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:07:38PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > Linux UI question (on Debian/KDE laptop right now): If I copy
^^^
> $ sudo apt-get install wmnetselect
> $ wmnetselec
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:07:38PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Linux UI question (on Debian/KDE laptop right now): If I copy
> a URL in a mail message by highlighting it, what's the fastest
> way of getting that loaded in a browser? Right now I have
> to delete the URL in a browser window and t
> My solution is truly disgusting, but works. I've patched bash so that I
> can paste (middle click) a http URL onto the command line and it will
> start in netscape. As I always have at least one terminal open on my
> desktop that does the job perfectly.
Whenever I'm doing this I tend to
1)
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:07:38PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Linux UI question (on Debian/KDE laptop right now): If I copy
> a URL in a mail message by highlighting it, what's the fastest
> way of getting that loaded in a browser?
Just place the pointer over the current web page and click th
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:07:38PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Linux UI question (on Debian/KDE laptop right now): If I copy
> a URL in a mail message by highlighting it, what's the fastest
> way of getting that loaded in a browser? Right now I have
> to delete the URL in a browser window and
* at 24/01 12:07 -0600 Paul Makepeace said:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:47:59PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected to *nix machine running samba
> > is the prefered development environment.
>
> Aye aye. Windows UI is much nicer than linux's (right n
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:09:41PM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
> Here here. I have yet to find a Unix editor I like. SO I use Ultraedit
> under Wine c.f http://www.twoshortplanks.com/simon/stuff/uedit.jpg
Allaire's HomeSite is excellent as a perl editor too; regexes, syntax
colouring, open file ta
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:07:38PM -0600, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:47:59PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> > Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected to *nix machine running samba
> > is the prefered development environment.
> Aye aye. Windows UI is much nicer than
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:47:59PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected to *nix machine running samba
> is the prefered development environment.
Aye aye. Windows UI is much nicer than linux's (right now) and
linux doesn't have a decent browser which is a
At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:23:57 -, "Bates, Duncan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I wrote my book under Windows - I figured that Word would be the easiest
> way to produce it.<<
>
> so in retrospect what would be the best format to produce a book in?
Oh, I'd probably do something based using th
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:47:59PM -, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> >
>
> Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected to *nix machine running samba
> is the prefered development environment.
I'm with you on that one. That's what I'm doing right now, and with PuTTY
being such a great tiny-foot
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:23:57PM -, Bates, Duncan wrote:
> >>I wrote my book under Windows - I figured that Word would be the easiest
> way to produce it.<<
>
> so in retrospect what would be the best format to produce a book in?
docbook?
markup / WYSINWYG rules
dj
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Robert Shiels wrote:
> From: "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > > *nix is not the future. Something else entirely is.
> >
> > Yeah, BeOS. BeOS is the future. Which is to say BeOS _was_ the future. Oh
> > well.
> >
> > Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected
Original Message-
From: David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Must remember to try IE under WINE.
>
>Don't bother. It doesn't work.
I've seen IE5 running under wine on Debian. The machine did have a 98
partition though so he might have been using the libraries from there,
is that chea
-Original Message-
From: Robert Shiels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected to *nix machine
running
>samba
>> is the prefered development environment.
>
>Strangely enough, thats exactly what I do at home. With Exceed for
doing X
>stuff.
If you've got a nic
>>I wrote my book under Windows - I figured that Word would be the easiest
way to produce it.<<
so in retrospect what would be the best format to produce a book in?
--
Duncan Bates
Developer
Proxicom UK
Tel: 020 7321 3812
Mobile: 07884 336 532
http://www.proxicom.com/
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:18:17PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> Must remember to try IE under WINE.
Don't bother. It doesn't work.
--
David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
This is nice. Any idea what body-part it is?
At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 14:18:17 +, Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just find Windows too bloody frustrating whenever I want to do
> anything other than edit "documents".
I wrote my book under Windows - I figured that Word would be the
easiest way to produce it.
This was a mi
On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:15:34PM +, Michael Stevens typed:
>What box I want depends on the local environment - windows boxes can
>be easier to run on windows networks, and linux boxes on more unixy or
>open networks.
I just find Windows too bloody frustrating whenever I want to do
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:05:27PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
> From: "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > > *nix is not the future. Something else entirely is.
> >
> Strangely enough, thats exactly what I do at home. With Exceed for doing X
> stuff.
The one windows application I can't
From: "Jonathan Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > *nix is not the future. Something else entirely is.
>
> Yeah, BeOS. BeOS is the future. Which is to say BeOS _was_ the future. Oh
> well.
>
> Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected to *nix machine running
samba
> is the prefered development
>
> *nix is not the future. Something else entirely is.
Yeah, BeOS. BeOS is the future. Which is to say BeOS _was_ the future. Oh
well.
Jon, who thinks Windows workstation connected to *nix machine running samba
is the prefered development environment.
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:31:02PM +, Richard Clamp wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:50PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
> > Emacs is available for windows. Now if I can just persuade it to save
> > with unix line ending conventions...
> Having recently done this, the thing you want is
>
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:39:13PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:36:40PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:31:28PM +, Michael Stevens typed:
> > >I propose we drag these people and drop them in those big rubbish bins
> > >you s
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:50PM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
>
> Emacs is available for windows. Now if I can just persuade it to save
> with unix line ending conventions...
Having recently done this, the thing you want is
set-buffer-file-coding-system, the default keybinding being 'C-x RET
Michael Stevens wrote:
> I hate to say it, but I'm slowly becoming converted to windows cut & paste.
>
> I like being able to highlight a block of text and hit ctrl-v to replace
> that with the contents of the clipboard.
Why do you hate to say it? It's better than cut and paste of X.
Linux i
Mark Fowler wrote:
> UltraEdit32 is a really good windows editor[1] if you like the way of
> Windows. It does all the right things (in the way that perl does all the
> right things) with line endings. And a lot more (but in a good way, not
> in a bloat way)
Here here. I have yet to find a Unix
From: "Michael Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 24 January 2001 12:43
Subject: Re: odd -w effect
>
> OTOH, that doesn't help us much with the desirable goal of getting unix
> used more in the workplace. I dunno.
>
Well, it does ac
As I seemed to be destined to be ignored, I'll do what I should have done
and shoult a little louder:
UltraEdit32 is a really good windows editor[1] if you like the way of
Windows. It does all the right things (in the way that perl does all the
right things) with line endings. And a lot more (b
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:46:13PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:43:46PM +, Michael Stevens typed:
>
> >We need to just get on with using linux, and other sensible stuff, and
> >IF PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS then we can tell them about it. But we shouldn't
>
On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:43:46PM +, Michael Stevens typed:
>We need to just get on with using linux, and other sensible stuff, and
>IF PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS then we can tell them about it. But we shouldn't
>try to promote it as what they want, because invariably they start going
>"
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:35:17PM -, Robert Shiels wrote:
> Let's be kind to the poor Windows users, encouraging them with the lure of
> free powerful software; once they get a taste for it they'll be begging you
> to help them get Linux installed as a dual boot on their home machines, then
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:36:40PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:31:28PM +, Michael Stevens typed:
> >I propose we drag these people and drop them in those big rubbish bins
> >you see outside offices.
> D&D is vaguely useful sometimes. Just not when I'm
>
> >Got it -- something else to stick in the commit checks... grrr... I
forgot
> >that some people use windows.
>
> If only I could.
>
> Try using CVS when some people insist on editing with Windows...
Let's just take it as a fact that Linux is better than Windows; we all know
this, we all run
On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:31:28PM +, Michael Stevens typed:
>I propose we drag these people and drop them in those big rubbish bins
>you see outside offices.
D&D is vaguely useful sometimes. Just not when I'm editing text.
Anyone played much with PowerArchiver? Freeware WinZip clo
* at 24/01 13:18 + Greg McCarroll said:
> * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:08:50 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:04:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > > > On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:37PM +000
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:18:16PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > And Xemacs. Seems to work fine with both Unix and DOS line endings, but
> > I haven't yet worked out how to change them.
> its more the people, a lot of them want to drag and drop and
> have file menus
I propose we drag these peo
At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:18:16 +, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:08:50 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:04:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > > > On or about We
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:08:50 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:04:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > > On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> > > >Got it -- somethi
Michael Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:04:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > Try using CVS when some people insist on editing with Windows...
>
> Emacs is available for windows. Now if I can just persuade it to save
> with unix line ending conventions...
:set fileformat=un
At Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:08:50 +, Michael Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:04:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> > On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> > >Got it -- something else to stick in the commit checks... grrr...
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:04:33PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> >Got it -- something else to stick in the commit checks... grrr... I forgot
> >that some people use windows.
> If only I could.
> Try using CVS when so
On or about Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:37PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
>Got it -- something else to stick in the commit checks... grrr... I forgot
>that some people use windows.
If only I could.
Try using CVS when some people insist on editing with Windows...
R
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:57:13PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> Mark Fowler wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > Strange. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Unix might have a problem if you take the -w out using a windows based
> > editor which will insert some nasty line te
Mark Fowler wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Strange. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Unix might have a problem if you take the -w out using a windows based
> editor which will insert some nasty line terminator at the end of the
> lines and screw up the file. That's what I normal
- Original Message -
From: "Mark Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 24 January 2001 11:19
Subject: Re: odd -w effect
> > Strange. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
I've also had this problem with CGI scripts running under ap
> Strange. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Unix might have a problem if you take the -w out using a windows based
editor which will insert some nasty line terminator at the end of the
lines and screw up the file. That's what I normally find the problem is
when 'nix can't find the file.
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