Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: cjns1...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking >Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:26:22 -0400 > >>On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:47:51AM EDT, ow...@netptc.net wrote: >> &

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread Tim Tebbit
Chris Jones wrote: > > So far, I can't complain.. Vim has paid me back in kind. > > CJ +1 'vimtutor' can have most up and running proficiently in 30 minutes. Time well spent IMO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 06:29:02PM EDT, thveillon.debian wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > > Being the absolute Joe User > > CJ > > > [apologies for the unethical massive snip, just couldn't resist > bouncing on the "Joe User" ;-) ] Yeah.. maybe I should pursue this on the OT list.. :-) > For t

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread thveillon.debian
Chris Jones wrote: > Being the absolute Joe User > CJ > [apologies for the unethical massive snip, just couldn't resist bouncing on the "Joe User" ;-) ] For those who actually are Joe users : in "joe" (aptitude install joe) do ^T (calling options) V ("Language") Set language and spell c

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:47:51AM EDT, ow...@netptc.net wrote: [..] > +1. I teach C in a Debian environment and my students (most of whom > have never used *nix) use nano. Probably a good choice, since you teach C, not editing. By the time you'd finished teaching them Vim, there would be not t

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:44:56AM EDT, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:56PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > > 'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive > > than Ctrl-V. > > That all depends on your background. Well, then that's no longer intuition. It's knowledge.

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread Tony Baldwin
Jon Dowland wrote: On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:56PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: 'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive than Ctrl-V. That all depends on your background. I use vi every day (I am a UNIX systems administrator); most of the time my vi is actually vim; but I wouldn

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread Lee Winter
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:56PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: >> 'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive >> than Ctrl-V. > > That all depends on your background. I use vi every day (I > am a UNIX systems administrator); most of t

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: jon+debian-u...@alcopop.org >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking >Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:44:56 +0100 > >>On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:56PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: >>> &#x

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-07 Thread Jon Dowland
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:56PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: > 'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive > than Ctrl-V. That all depends on your background. I use vi every day (I am a UNIX systems administrator); most of the time my vi is actually vim; but I wouldn't for a second rec

Re: OT: mutt/nano spell checking

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:19:46AM EDT, Tony Baldwin wrote: > Vim's keybindings are completely insane and non-intuitive. I've never > once made sense of how to use the darned thing in a decade of using > gnu/linux. 'p' for 'paste' does strike me as rather more intuitive than Ctrl-V. But noth