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#caturday #linux

the distro seems to be away, but the logo is just Great !

feels somewhat strange, people talking about the terminal, but posting GUI pictures

#unix #linux (don't see any *BSD #FreeBSD people do that)

start with things you know, then do things you have to look up. one by one

repeat until the file is ready

and no worry, 'u' will help you correcting mistakes

repetition and trying will get the #vim way into your way of working

transformed my #sliderule collection list yesterday to get a useful database. beginning is this primary table

csv, semicolon delimited, basic design with 5 columns

nothing special, but a lot of FUN using #vim

just practice #vim

take a list of things you collect,
transform it to a useful csv file

use all you know an can lookup to use the power of vim

add delimiters, relocate information, cut out brackets etc

repeat, make on the fly macros, use visual selections to add marks, sort but keep the header line on top

cheat and see in LO if your effort was good, go back to vim and clean up further

just practice #vim

dunno if it's my filters or the absence of extra-terminal messages here

like it here, TNX !

when a site is blocked by a paywall, copy the linking URL, open a terminal and do

$ wget <url>

rename to .html and see what happens in 99% of the cases

paste the url with <Ctrl>+<Ins> in terminal #bsd #linux

yes it can

#linux
https://linux.slashdot.org/story/21/11/21/0231218/a-german-state-is-switching-its-25000-computers-from-windows-to-linux

anyone here uses a #terminal spreadsheet program?

found some interesting stuff on sc, sc-im, oleo and visidata. sc-im is in the #FreeBSD packages, but I'm curious on experiences !

a terminal spreadsheet would cut mee more loose from GUI and cluttered software. LO is doing things fine, but a terminal has less distraction an is more basic to work with.

terminal spreadsheet review is here:
https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/spreadsheet.html

the beauty of #Vim is that you can use plugins, change keybinds and whatever

but in the 30 years Bram built and maintained this wonderful piece of software, the basics just work well

maybe you'll have to try the basic settings for a while. don't compare to other software. just use it.

and it will be Great!

on Distraction Free Writing, the Art of Writing and the completely different Art of Typesetting.

stick to _your_ Art and let the rest be done by a real Typesetter or good software that can do alike, like #LaTeX or #pandoc

http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/wp.html

from https://nitens.org/w/latex/

#distractionfreewriting

on Distraction Free writing:

try #Vim and Goyo, possible with Limelight

(but killing the GUI and using Vim in TTY is even more distraction-free !!!)

from my .vimrc:

on #LaTeX #Vim and Distraction-free Writing:

"[...] word processing became mixed up with desktop publishing. Users found that they could be typographers and layout artists, and paid much more attention to the appearance of their pages, perhaps to the detriment of the text itself"

https://anthology.hypotheses.org/254

just discovered that `scrot' has an -s option to mouse-select the part to make a screenshot of

should read more manpages...

<microsoft rant>

update deletes contents of C:\user\Documents

Excel saves file to zero-bytes file on network volume -- work lost

both documented and corroborated by others

both W10 OS and software should be avoided like the plague

</microsoft rant>

fortunately on boss' box (and boss' time)

I'm not so much on ranting, but this happening after good work is just sh*t. solutions on the net don't tackle the root cause

respect your work, use a decent Operating System !

#cats strictly follow #UNIX philosophy,

they only meow when there is actually something to inform you of

#markdown has won -- you can even use it on whatsapp

*bold* _italic_ ~strikethrough~