Re: parameters from the command line: how do they do that?

2017-06-21 Thread Todd Chester
On 06/21/2017 10:26 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Todd Chester > wrote: > On 22/06/17 14:49, Todd Chester wrote: >> I know how to read things on the command line. But >> how to other's figure out

Re: Any text editors for programming that support the secondary selection clipboard?

2017-06-21 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
Hah, I see that my original response only went to ToddAndMargo, how dull-witted I must have been. On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:13 PM, The Sidhekin wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote: >> >> > I like Geany, but it does not

Re: parameters from the command line: how do they do that?

2017-06-21 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Todd Chester wrote: > > On 22/06/17 14:49, Todd Chester wrote: > >> I know how to read things on the command line. But > >> how to other's figure out what goes together when things > >> don't arrive in order? > > > On 06/21/2017 10:03 PM,

Re: parameters from the command line: how do they do that?

2017-06-21 Thread Todd Chester
> On 22/06/17 14:49, Todd Chester wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I know how to read things on the command line. But >> how to other's figure out what goes together when things >> don't arrive in order? >> >> For instance, from "man grep" >> >> -E, --extended-regexp >> Interpret PATTERN

Re: parameters from the command line: how do they do that?

2017-06-21 Thread Francis (Grizzly) Smit
look into function MAIN in perl6 https://docs.perl6.org/language/functions https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2010/12/02/day-2-interacting-with-the-command-line-with-main-subs/ http://perl6maven.com/parsing-command-line-arguments-perl6 On 22/06/17 14:49, Todd Chester wrote: Hi All, I know

parameters from the command line: how do they do that?

2017-06-21 Thread Todd Chester
Hi All, I know how to read things on the command line. But how to other's figure out what goes together when things don't arrive in order? For instance, from "man grep" -E, --extended-regexp Interpret PATTERN as ... -F, --fixed-strings Interpret PATTERN as ...

Re: Any text editors for programming that support the secondary selection clipboard?

2017-06-21 Thread The Sidhekin
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote: > > I like Geany, but it does not support the "Secondary Selection" > > clipboard. This clipboard would save me a bunch of time as > > I would not lose my cursor hot spot. > > Emacs

Re: Any text editors for programming that support the secondary selection clipboard?

2017-06-21 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:32 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > I like Geany, but it does not support the "Secondary Selection" > clipboard. This clipboard would save me a bunch of time as > I would not lose my cursor hot spot. Emacs