Re: format flowed - wrapping text in editor

2025-03-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 15 Mar 2025, Eben King wrote: On 3/15/25 05:49, Tim Woodall wrote: This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails the resulting text gets wrapped at column 80 in vim. I can then tell vim to reflow to get back

Re: format flowed - wrapping text in editor

2025-03-15 Thread Eben King
On 3/15/25 05:49, Tim Woodall wrote: This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails the resulting text gets wrapped at column 80 in vim. I can then tell vim to reflow to get back to 72 character widths but is there a

format flowed - wrapping text in editor

2025-03-15 Thread Tim Woodall
Hi, I have the following setting in my (remote) pinerc: Viewer Margin Right = 72c Not sure it's relevant but in vim I have textwidth=72 formatoptions=tcqlw This means that format-flowed emails wrap at 72 characters on my screen in alpine but when I reply to one of these emails t

Problem with KATE editor installed from Debian repository

2025-02-07 Thread Richard Owlett
s until you end recording. *ERROR* -- no entry for "Keyboard Macros" under "Tools" https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/plugins.html says: Kate Application Plugins Kate plugins are additional functions for the Kate editor. They can add extra menus and shortcuts, and ex

Tardy Thank-you [Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?]

2025-02-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/4/24 3:13 PM, David wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 at 12:22, Richard Owlett wrote: I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . [...] 2. Is there a script that would download it to a specific local

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Dan Ritter
Bitfox wrote: > > after downloading, is it possible to convert all html files into a single > pdf? any tool in linux to do that? Thanks. Yes, pandoc is packaged and can do that easily. -dsr-

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Bitfox
On 2024-12-04 20:11, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2024-12-04, Richard Owlett wrote: I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Two questions: 1. Has someone packaged it as a downloadable file? 2. Is t

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread David
On Wed, 4 Dec 2024 at 12:22, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. > A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . [...] >2. Is there a script that would download it to a specific local > directory in a manner t

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread David Wright
On Wed 04 Dec 2024 at 13:13:37 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/4/24 12:17 PM, Xiyue Deng wrote: > > Richard Owlett writes: > > > > > I recently discovered Kate. One might think its design goals were how I > > > work and a specific personal project I have. Get idea that I like it ;} > > >

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/4/24 12:17 PM, Xiyue Deng wrote: Richard Owlett writes: I recently discovered Kate. One might think its design goals were how I work and a specific personal project I have. Get idea that I like it ;} I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https:/

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Xiyue Deng
Richard Owlett writes: > I recently discovered Kate. One might think its design goals were how I > work and a specific personal project I have. Get idea that I like it ;} > > I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. > A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/ka

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/12/2024 22:46, Richard Owlett wrote: On 12/4/24 9:20 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 04/12/2024 18:27, Richard Owlett wrote: A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Is it different from docs available in khelpcenter? To what URL do you refer? I mean local h

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread David Wright
On Wed 04 Dec 2024 at 09:00:06 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/4/24 6:11 AM, Michel Verdier wrote: > > On 2024-12-04, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. > > > A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html .

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/4/24 9:20 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 04/12/2024 18:27, Richard Owlett wrote: I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Two questions:    1. Has someone packaged it as a downloadable file? Is it d

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Max Nikulin
On 04/12/2024 18:27, Richard Owlett wrote: I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Two questions:   1. Has someone packaged it as a downloadable file? Is it different from docs available in khelpcen

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/4/24 6:11 AM, Michel Verdier wrote: On 2024-12-04, Richard Owlett wrote: I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Two questions: 1. Has someone packaged it as a downloadable file? 2. Is th

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/4/24 6:06 AM, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2024 at 6:27 AM From: "Richard Owlett" To: "debian-user" Subject: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)? I recently discovered Kate. One might think its design goals were how I

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2024-12-04, Richard Owlett wrote: > I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. > A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . > > Two questions: > 1. Has someone packaged it as a downloadable file? > 2. Is there a script that would download it

Re: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread pocket
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2024 at 6:27 AM > From: "Richard Owlett" > To: "debian-user" > Subject: Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)? > > I recently discovered Kate. One might think its design goals were how I > work and a s

Kate editor documentation as downloadable HTML file(s)?

2024-12-04 Thread Richard Owlett
I recently discovered Kate. One might think its design goals were how I work and a specific personal project I have. Get idea that I like it ;} I find HTML formatted documentation much more usable than PDF. A fine manual at https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kate/kate/index.html . Two questions:

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-08-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:29 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Karen Lewellen (12024-06-24): Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number of different formats, including .html They

TARDY response -- [Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]]

2024-08-07 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:22 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files  to a number of different formats, including .html They provide audio, mobi, and  co

Re: PDF editor

2024-08-07 Thread coreyh
On 2024-08-07 09:27, Arbol One wrote: Anyone knows about a PDF editor for Debian? do you mean CLI or windows tool for PDF editor? -- corey hickman

Re: PDF editor

2024-08-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Aug 2024 at 21:27:00 (-0400), Arbol One wrote: > Anyone knows about a PDF editor for Debian? Perhaps you could summarise what you learnt, and what you feel you didn't learn, from the thread that you opened here six weeks ago. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/06/msg00

PDF editor

2024-08-06 Thread Arbol One
Anyone knows about a PDF editor for Debian? -- */ArbolOne.ca/* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne is composed of students and volunteers dedicated to providing free services to charitable organizations. ArbolOne on Java Development is in progress [ í ]

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-26 Thread Richard
qpdf is good for e.g. removing any password protection - given you know the password. But I kinda doubt that's what's meant with editor. And quite frankly, you can do most of what qpdf does more comfortably with tools like PDFSam or PDF Arranger. The latter even lets you crop pages or

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-26 Thread Franco Martelli
On 24/06/24 at 00:50, Arbol One wrote: Hello. Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? Time ago I used Qpdf to delete some pages in a .pdf, for a quick description: ~$ apt show qpdf in the manual there are some command examples, I used these command to edit a pdf: - To

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 08:01:26PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ > > It looks nice. > But being a close

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-25 Thread Detlef Vollmann
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 04:26:47 -0400 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. > https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ It looks nice. But being a closed source SW from Russia I'd be careful to run it outside of an isolated VM (which is actually tr

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Richard
I wouldn't say PDFs are bad for visually impaired users. In fact, as bitmap fonts are thankfully a thing of the past for almost everywhere, you can zoom any document to your hearts desire. Though sometimes you need some tricks, e.g. Evince is configured to only use 50 MB of storage by default for c

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Nicolas George
Karen Lewellen (12024-06-24): > Good afternoon. > I am providing another option that might help here. > robobraille, > > www.robobraille.org > Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number > of different formats, including .html > They provide audio, mobi, and conver

Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Karen Lewellen
Good afternoon. I am providing another option that might help here. robobraille, www.robobraille.org Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number of different formats, including .html They provide audio, mobi, and convert epub files too..but I digress. As a test,

Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

2024-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2024 12:35 AM, Richard wrote: Hello, this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, PDFs are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for anything else. ... Second sentence should read: ... only meant to be viewed by those with *NORMAL* vi

Publishing Formats (was: PDF Editor for Debian)

2024-06-24 Thread Richard
Since it's quite OT, starting a new thread for this. I would most certainly never call formats like ooxml or odf “publishing formats”, they are content creation or editing formats. From a publishing format I expect to be able to show the content as intended — which actually neither of them can do

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-24 Thread jeremy ardley
On 24/6/24 13:35, Richard wrote: So your best bet is just to try to never have to edit a PDF at all. Always try to get a hand on the original file the PDF was delivered from. Even if it's a docx In my view, pdf and docx shoud be regarded as publication formats for content managed in a pro

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-24 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 2:23 AM Arbol One wrote: > Hello. > Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? > I use Master PDF Editor. It works great. https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ Thanks. > -- > *ArbolOne.ca* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-23 Thread Klaus Singvogel
Arbol One wrote: > Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? It's depending on what you understand under "edit", and whether you expect to use Free Open Source Software (FOSS) or not. If you just want to fill out forms (JavaScript), then I'd recommend the F

Re: PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-23 Thread Richard
the PDF was delivered from. Even if it's a docx - Microsofts infamous wannabe-open source format that just nobody can handle properly, including their own software - it will most likely be better handled by the software you use than a PDF made editable. Best Richard On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 07:

PDF Editor for Debian

2024-06-23 Thread Arbol One
Hello. Is there a PDF editor that would work with Debian 12? Thanks. -- */ArbolOne.ca/* Using Fire Fox and Thunderbird. ArbolOne is composed of students and volunteers dedicated to providing free services to charitable organizations. ArbolOne on Java Development is in progress [ í ]

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-06-12 21:16:51 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Note that this is very temporary storage. It will not put the text in > the clipboard, nor will a clipboard stack program like clipman see it. This can be changed with selectToClipboard: selectToClipboard (class SelectToClipboard) Tell

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread fxkl47BF
>> >> This alters the block highlight. By pressing the middle of the >> bottom of the touchpad: highlights only the lines in xterm. >> >> Go to text editor, in my instance: Kate. Place cursor where to paste. >> Dialogue box comes up. Select paste and it does tha

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/06/2024 12:42, Charlie wrote: Didn't think the touchpad had a middle button. Don't know why? Middle click can be configured for touchpads as 2 or 3 fingers tap or as simultaneous press on both hardware buttons (if they exist), see the libinput(4) man page and https://wayland.freedeskto

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Aleix Piulachs
t; > Cursor in highlighted text, press bottom middle of touchpad. > > > > This alters the block highlight. By pressing the middle of the > > bottom of the touchpad: highlights only the lines in xterm. > > > > Go to text editor, in my instance: Kate. Place cursor wher

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ
On Thursday, 13 June 2024 07:27:47 -04 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:42:27PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > For completeness. Had tried right and left at same time on touchpad > > of laptop. As it worked years ago. > > Pressing left+right buttons simultaneously was indeed one of the

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
a Dell Vostro laptop. > > Highlight the text in xterm with the left of the touchpad. > Cursor in highlighted text, press bottom middle of touchpad. > > This alters the block highlight. By pressing the middle of the > bottom of the touchpad: highlights only the lines in xterm. >

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Keith Bainbridge
al driver. >> >> Ctrl-C is usually bound to the 'intr' facility in the terminal driver. >> Pressing it in a terminal sends the interrupt signal (SIGINT) to all >> running foreground processes. It does not copy text. That's a >> Windows thing, and

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-12 Thread Charlie
#x27;s a > Windows thing, and you are not in Windows. > > > Unable to paste from xterm into a text editor using Ctrl + V or > > Shift > > + Ctrl + V > > Pressing Ctrl-V in a terminal emulator sends a byte (0x16) to the > application. At the terminal driver laye

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:16:00 +1000 Charlie wrote: > I[s] there is a > way to do it at all? Yes. Use Mouse-1 (typically the left-hand mouse button) to swipe the text you want to copy from the xterm. Go to the recipient program, and use Mouse-2 (typically the middle button on the mouse) to paste.

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Aleix Piulachs
I believe you can to change the options of xterm editor and set up others.. El El jue, 13 jun 2024 a las 4:56, Greg Wooledge escribió: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by > > Ct

Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
intr' facility in the terminal driver. Pressing it in a terminal sends the interrupt signal (SIGINT) to all running foreground processes. It does not copy text. That's a Windows thing, and you are not in Windows. > Unable to paste from xterm into a text editor using Ctrl + V or Shift

Copy from xterm to text editor........

2024-06-12 Thread Charlie
Using Debian bookworm updated and upgraded. Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm by Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from xterm Unable to paste from xterm into a text editor using Ctrl + V or Shift + Ctrl + V After a few year

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-16 Thread Susmita/Rajib
From: Me Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:23:26 +0200 Message-id: <[🔎] 568e7aa9-e061-194a-13f8-8e2379f69...@nodatagrabbing.com> In-reply-to: <[🔎] caeg4czxryyivofecor24n8o8bkbrvvuc+hhu2mmrzwyjrlj...@mail.gmail.com> References: <[🔎] caeg4czxryyivofecor24n8o8bkbrvvuc+hhu2mmrzwyjrlj...@mail.gmail.com> and

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-15 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 15 juin 2023, 20:15 de m...@nodatagrabbing.com: > Although I have never used it myself (I am 100% a vim and by extension a > vimwiki person) > +1 for vimwiki. > I know someone who used (not sure if he still does) Basket Notes > (https://basket-notepads.github.io/) and loves it. > In that ca

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-15 Thread Me
aWiki articles. But files created with zim don't appear to be compatible with the other. Will check, confirm and then post my experiences. I require a WYSIWYG editor. Zim is one. But I also need another supporting editor to further polish up files. Any suggestion in the meanwhile would be welc

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-15 Thread Dan Ritter
ce like a > word processor. One'll need to manually apply the wiki formatting tags > to achieve the desired formatting in the plain text files. I'm going to break my general rule against replying to Susmita/Rajib because this is an important point for anyone else reading. A text ed

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-15 Thread Susmita/Rajib
From: Michel Verdier Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:54:35 +0200 Message-id: <[🔎] 87edmdaql0@free.fr> In-reply-to: <[🔎] caeg4czxryyivofecor24n8o8bkbrvvuc+hhu2mmrzwyjrlj...@mail.gmail.com> References: <[🔎] caeg4czxryyivofecor24n8o8bkbrvvuc+hhu2mmrzwyjrlj...@mail.gmail.com> [ ... ] > emacs ? Tha

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-15 Thread 황병희
On Thu, 2023-06-15 at 13:54 +0200, Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2023-06-15, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > > I require a WYSIWYG editor. Zim is one. But I also need another > > supporting editor to further polish up files. > > emacs ? > +1; emacs is good! Also i use emacs

Re: Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-15 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-06-15, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > I require a WYSIWYG editor. Zim is one. But I also need another > supporting editor to further polish up files. emacs ?

Is there no other tool but Zim, the graphical text editor based on wiki technologies, in Debian, to create intertwined wiki pages locally?

2023-06-15 Thread Susmita/Rajib
don't appear to be compatible with the other. Will check, confirm and then post my experiences. I require a WYSIWYG editor. Zim is one. But I also need another supporting editor to further polish up files. Any suggestion in the meanwhile would be welcome. Best wishes. Rajib Etc.

Re: need nano like editor that can print

2023-06-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> An simple non-x editor like nano that can print thru cups. > Is there such a critter? Emacs works in a tty (i.e. "non-x") and I'm sure it can do that. Whether it counts as "simple", is another question, of course. More generally, I'd expect pretty much a

Re: need nano like editor that can print

2023-06-03 Thread gene heskett
On 6/3/23 11:10, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 10:22:42 -0400 gene heskett wrote: An simple non-x editor like nano that can print thru cups. Vim will do this through the "hardcopy" command. It sends text to the print server (CUPS). I do this all the time. Of c

Re: need nano like editor that can print

2023-06-03 Thread paulf
On Sat, 3 Jun 2023 10:22:42 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > An simple non-x editor like nano that can print thru cups. Vim will do this through the "hardcopy" command. It sends text to the print server (CUPS). I do this all the time. Of course, vim isn't nano; you'd

need nano like editor that can print

2023-06-03 Thread gene heskett
An simple non-x editor like nano that can print thru cups. Is there such a critter? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 04:48:19PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Teemu Likonen (12022-11-01): > > > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your > > > machine? > > And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if > > it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it mean

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread Nicolas George
Teemu Likonen (12022-11-01): > > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your > > machine? > And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if > it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it means ASCII and 7-bit character set. I checked that mousepad and jedit, the t

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2022-11-01 16:27:25+0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your > machine? And "locale charmap" command too. Hopefully it will print "UTF-8" but if it prints "ANSI_X3.4-1968" it means ASCII and 7-bit character set. -- /// Teemu Likonen -

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread tomas
On Tue, Nov 01, 2022 at 03:19:41PM +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > emacs? It shows the é perfectly well, yes (besides, Emacs is the best editor out there, anyway). But, TBH, even vim can do. To the OP: what does entering "locale -a" in a terminal say on your machine? Cheers -- t

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 8:54 AM, jindam, vani wrote: > i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles. > for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage. I just tried that paste in LibreOffice, and it wo

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread Eric S Fraga
emacs? -- Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 29.0.50 2022-11-01) on Debian 11.4

Re: which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread Nicolas George
jindam, vani (12022-11-01): > i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles. > for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage. > i am using mousepad & jedit. is there any gui > text editor which displays correctly pasted text > with different languages? i am on de

which gui text editor support correct rendering of multiple languages

2022-11-01 Thread jindam, vani
i copy paste a lot from wikipedia articles. for example, if i paste "é", it shows garbage. i am using mousepad & jedit. is there any gui text editor which displays correctly pasted text with different languages? i am on debian bullseye. regards, jindam, vani toots: @jindam_v.

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-24 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Mar 2022 at 04:17:37 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2022 21 Mar 23:30 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2022-03-21 23:07 (UTC-0500): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > >> IIUC, and assuming standard file/directory permissions, if all instances > > >> of MC are >

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 21 Mar 23:30 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2022-03-21 23:07 (UTC-0500): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> IIUC, and assuming standard file/directory permissions, if all instances > >> of MC are > >> closed, and its ini file is then removed, every setting (except fo

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
helped me when working with mcedit is to have this > > snippet in my ~/.bashrc: > > > > # Modify Midnight Commander editor background color > > export MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\ > > editnormal=lightgray,black:\ > > editbold=yellow,black:\ > > editmark

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2022-03-21 23:07 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> IIUC, and assuming standard file/directory permissions, if all instances of >> MC are >> closed, and its ini file is then removed, every setting (except for panels >> configuration? and hotlist), gets reverted to defau

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 22:43:50 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2022-03-21 20:55 (UTC-0500): > > On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 14:08:14 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > >> Nate Bargmann composed on 2022-03-21 12:35 (UTC-0500): > > >> > tinkering with mc's config files directly which can

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2022-03-21 20:55 (UTC-0500): > On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 14:08:14 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: >> Nate Bargmann composed on 2022-03-21 12:35 (UTC-0500): >> > tinkering with mc's config files directly which can only be done if all >> > instances of mc are closed. >> Not IME,

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread David Wright
he Edit/View/Open scripts to run from mc.ext, eg a different application, or windowed/fullscreen, or view metadata rather than the file, etc. If you want to edit the currently selected file, is there any major disadvantage in simply typing edit %p in mc's command line? There's

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread David Wright
ly, mc and mcedit are linked to libslang, not ncurses. Visually > it's not much difference but otherwise a world of difference, mostly to > developers. > > One thing that really helped me when working with mcedit is to have this > snippet in my ~/.bashrc: > > # M

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread gene heskett
On Monday, 21 March 2022 18:07:28 EDT Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-03-21 17:26 (UTC-0400): > > whatever I do to it, has zero effect. > > IIUC, and assuming standard file/directory permissions, if all > instances of MC are closed, and its ini file is then removed, every > sett

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
rence but otherwise a world of difference, mostly to developers. One thing that really helped me when working with mcedit is to have this snippet in my ~/.bashrc: # Modify Midnight Commander editor background color export MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\ editnormal=lightgray,black:\ editbold

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread mick crane
t;> instances of mc are closed. > > Not IME, at least for ini and hotlist, the former which I change > nearly as often > with mcedit as I do via menu. Hotlist I only do with mcedit. > > Mcedit is giving me no trouble. I use most than once a day most days. I don't *thin

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2022-03-21 17:26 (UTC-0400): > whatever I do to it, has zero effect. IIUC, and assuming standard file/directory permissions, if all instances of MC are closed, and its ini file is then removed, every setting (except for panels configuration? and hotlist), gets reverted t

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread gene heskett
mc are closed. > > > > Not IME, at least for ini and hotlist, the former which I change > > nearly as often > > with mcedit as I do via menu. Hotlist I only do with mcedit. > > > > Mcedit is giving me no trouble. I use most than once a day most days. > &

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread mick crane
cedit as I do via menu. Hotlist I only do with mcedit. Mcedit is giving me no trouble. I use most than once a day most days. I don't *think* I changed mc's configuration for editor, maybe changed system default somehow. mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Joe
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 15:25:02 -0400 Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:53:52 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > The colors used by mc's editor are making the editor impossible to > > use as they can't be used by someone wi

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Felix Miata
Nate Bargmann composed on 2022-03-21 12:35 (UTC-0500): > tinkering with mc's config files directly which can only be done if all > instances of mc are closed. Not IME, at least for ini and hotlist, the former which I change nearly as often with mcedit as I do via menu. Hotlist I only do with mced

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
In the configuration dialog there is the option to use the internal editor. Make sure that option is not selected. On Debian systems you should get prompted for which editor to use by the select-editor script. In my case I chose vim.basic. This avoids tinkering with mc's config files dir

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-20 Thread gene heskett
On Sunday, 20 March 2022 15:25:02 EDT Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:53:52 -0400 > > gene heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > The colors used by mc's editor are making the editor impossible to > > use as they can't be used by someone wi

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-20 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:53:52 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > The colors used by mc's editor are making the editor impossible to use as > they can't be used by someone with good color vision even, they are all > so alike. > > Where can I change m

Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-20 Thread gene heskett
Greetings all; The colors used by mc's editor are making the editor impossible to use as they can't be used by someone with good color vision even, they are all so alike. Where can I change mc's default editor to something as clear and easy to use as geany? Seems to me that us

Re: Any Debian BPMN editor (or a converter)?

2021-04-27 Thread Markos
rated bpmn file gives an error to open in Bizagi. Any suggetion about an alternative of editor or a converter that converts a file in the format, for example svg (or any other), to bpmn? Thank you, Markos Many thanks to Didier, Deloptes and Michael, For suggestions of: BPMN sotfware on

Re: Any Debian BPMN editor (or a converter)?

2021-04-23 Thread Michael-John Turner
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 04:24:33PM -0300, Markos wrote: Any suggetion about an alternative of editor or a converter that converts a file in the format, for example svg (or any other), to bpmn? I can't comment specifically on how well it works importing SVGs as I've not used that fun

Re: Any Debian BPMN editor (or a converter)?

2021-04-21 Thread deloptes
Markos wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working with a group that is developing process diagrams in BPMN > format using the Bizagi tool (www.bizagi.com/en). > > Everyone is using Windows but I use Linux (Debian 9.4). > Everyone is using Windows but you are using old Debian :) > But there is no version of

Re: Any Debian BPMN editor (or a converter)?

2021-04-21 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Disclaimer: I did not even now before your post what BPMN stands for... there is a comparison of BPMN sotfware on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Business_Process_Model_and_Notation_modeling_tools Among these solutions I would take a look at Flowable (free licen

Any Debian BPMN editor (or a converter)?

2021-04-21 Thread Markos
in Bizagi. Any suggetion about an alternative of editor or a converter that converts a file in the format, for example svg (or any other), to bpmn? Thank you, Markos

Re: midnight commander editor

2020-07-28 Thread mick crane
On 2020-07-28 12:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 28 iul 20, 13:42:07, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:00:30AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > hello, > using mc to select files to edit mc editor doesn't recognize vim > syntax colouring so have to press enter to igno

Re: midnight commander editor

2020-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 iul 20, 13:42:07, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:00:30AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > > hello, > > using mc to select files to edit mc editor doesn't recognize vim > > syntax colouring so have to press enter to ignore and get the

Re: midnight commander editor

2020-07-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:00:30AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > hello, > using mc to select files to edit mc editor doesn't recognize vim syntax > colouring so have to press enter to ignore and get the error messages in > terminal. > Any way to have mc recognize

midnight commander editor

2020-07-28 Thread mick crane
hello, using mc to select files to edit mc editor doesn't recognize vim syntax colouring so have to press enter to ignore and get the error messages in terminal. Any way to have mc recognize colo, syntax options in ~/.vimrc ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

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