On 2005-10-26, Tim Golden wrote:
> [Sybren Stuvel]
>
> Tim Golden enlightened us with:
>> > Well, I'm with you. I'm sure a lot of people will chime in to point
>> > out just how flexible and useful and productive Linux is as a
>> > workstation, but every time I try to use it -- and I make an honest
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 07:20, Tim Golden wrote:
> I'm sure you're right: given moderately naive users, a Windows box
> is *extremely* likely to be zombified. It's just that it doesn't
> have to be that way with the proper care and attention.
With $200 dollars of antivirus software (on top of
Tim Golden enlightened us with:
> Well, fair enough. Although I don't think that on its own this
> constitutes "rubbish".
True - it's just one of the reasons that shift its status toward
rubishness ;-)
> Not quite sure what this means. As in ANSI support? (Perfectly true
> - definitely lacking th
Thomas Heller wrote:
> FYI, if you don't know this already: You also can resize the console without
> going through the properties menu with 'mode con cols=... lines=...'.
Good grief! I haven't used "mode con" in years; forgotten
it even existed! Thanks for bringing that back, Thomas.
TJG
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> Thanks to both of you. But that much I already knew. It's not
> that I have *no* knowledge about readline: I did at least
> read the manuals when I got stuck! But as far as I can tell
> from my experience and from the docs -- and I'm not near a
> Linux box at the mo -- having used ctrl-r to reca
Tim> I am quite well aware of all of the ways you mention of recalling
Tim> history etc. etc. When I've tried using them, they all seem
Tim> tiresomely cumbersome ...
That's not at all surprising (at least not to me). An important point to
realize is that readline's command recall is
[Giovanni Dall'Olio]
Tim Golden ha scritto:
[... bash vs Win command-line ...]
> Argh!! ;)
> How about reading a simple tutorial on bash?
[... snip signs of aggravation over my ignorance ...]
I am quite well aware of all of the ways you mention
of recalling history etc. etc. When I've tried usi
"Tim Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [Sybren Stuvel]
>> You can't resize it horizontally
>
> Well, peculiarly, you can do this (as you're probably aware) from
> the Properties menu and it'll work immediately, albeit without
> advising the running programs that it's resized, so only new
> li
[Tim Golden]
> Just occasionally you read posts from people who say (synthesised)
> "The Windows command line is rubbish",
[Sybren Stuvel]
> It is. Let me give an example. I have the following files:
[.. snip example of finding .somefile when you type som ..]
Well, fair enough. Although I don't
Tim Golden enlightened us with:
> Well yes. I think the (only slightly) wider point I was making was
> that -- despite goodwill and several attempts on my part -- Linux
> still has not overpowered me with its usefulness.
I have yet to see any OS that overpowers me with its usefulness.
> Extending
Tim Golden ha scritto:
> As it happens, (and I suspect I'll have to don my flameproof suit here),
> I prefer the Windows command line to bash/readline for day-to-day use,
> including in Python. Why? Because it does what I can't for the life of
> me get readline to do: you can type the first few
Tim Golden enlightened us with:
> But as far as I can tell from my experience and from the docs -- and
> I'm not near a Linux box at the mo -- having used ctrl-r to recall
> line x in the history, you can't just down-arrow to recall x+1, x+2
> etc. Or can you?
[Sybren]
With bash as well as the Py
Tim Golden enlightened us with:
> But as far as I can tell from my experience and from the docs -- and
> I'm not near a Linux box at the mo -- having used ctrl-r to recall
> line x in the history, you can't just down-arrow to recall x+1, x+2
> etc. Or can you?
With bash as well as the Python inte
[Sybren Stuvel]
[Tim Golden]
> > It's obvious that everyone has a different way of working, and that
> > I'm more comfortable in Windows because all sorts of small
> > familiarities
> So what I read in your post is that you simply don't want to leave
> your familiar environment. Fair enough.
Wel
oops, stand corrected. As I don't use the feature more than ctrl-r and
up/down arrow.
Tim Golden wrote:
> Thanks to both of you. But that much I already knew. It's not
> that I have *no* knowledge about readline: I did at least
> read the manuals when I got stuck! But as far as I can tell
> from m
Tim Golden wrote:
> As it happens, (and I suspect I'll have to don my flameproof suit
here),
> I prefer the Windows command line to bash/readline for day-to-day use,
> including in Python. Why? Because it does what I can't for the life of
> me get readline to do: you can type the first few letters
Tim Golden wrote:
>As it happens, (and I suspect I'll have to don my flameproof suit here),
>I prefer the Windows command line to bash/readline for day-to-day use,
>including in Python. Why? Because it does what I can't for the life of
>me get readline to do: you can type the first few letters
Tim Golden enlightened us with:
> Not quite fair. Not only would I avoid saying something with a
> redundant apostrophe ;) but the Windows user interface, at least for
> my purposes, didn't change such a huge amount between Win9x and
> Win2K,
Hence my reference to windows 3.1.
> It's obvious that
quoth the Tim Golden:
> As it happens, (and I suspect I'll have to don my flameproof suit here),
> I prefer the Windows command line to bash/readline for day-to-day use,
> including in Python. Why? Because it does what I can't for the life of
> me get readline to do: you can type the first few lett
Tim Golden wrote:
> As it happens, (and I suspect I'll have to don my flameproof suit here),
> I prefer the Windows command line to bash/readline for day-to-day use,
> including in Python. Why? Because it does what I can't for the life of
> me get readline to do: you can type the first few letters
[Sybren Stuvel]
Tim Golden enlightened us with:
> > Well, I'm with you. I'm sure a lot of people will chime in to point
> > out just how flexible and useful and productive Linux is as a
> > workstation, but every time I try to use it -- and I make an honest
> > effort -- I end up back in Windows
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