From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 19831 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2023 18:46:11 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Mar 2023 18:46:11 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B148E412F5; Thu, 9 Mar 2023 04:46:07 +1000 (AEST) Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0976741291 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2023 04:46:03 +1000 (AEST) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:45:59 +0100 Author: Steffen Nurpmeso From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: Larry McVoy Message-ID: <20230308184559._JD0M%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <20230308182120.GL5993@mcvoy.com> References: <1297BE06-BE03-477A-AC60-40A269090295@planet.nl> <73309724-1F69-49D4-B54B-63DD298CBD27@planet.nl> <7gRmYrV9xZLqALpbW8Y9EuB9rwaGBUKwNrgdHsepRTRVMFCHkPYaRWy68zZvwTcIpY6ZMcoFqxi2puDOS-D2Z6VUQypSYkyA2uNzDdHO8oQ=@protonmail.com> <20230308182120.GL5993@mcvoy.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , segaloco , Paul Ruizendaal , "tuhs@tuhs.org" User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.24-432-g67dd7ec606 OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. Message-ID-Hash: YBJGIZOLJ63FMN2OC4PM534P2OGUWCEI X-Message-ID-Hash: YBJGIZOLJ63FMN2OC4PM534P2OGUWCEI X-MailFrom: steffen@sdaoden.eu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: segaloco , Paul Ruizendaal , "tuhs@tuhs.org" X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Origins of the frame buffer device List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Larry McVoy wrote in <20230308182120.GL5993@mcvoy.com>: |I really miss terminal rooms. I learned so much looking over the |shoulders of more experienced people. Wait, you can run a paragraph of |text through fmt(1)? How the heck did you do that? | |I don't really miss it for me, I'm retired, but I think kids learning |are sort of at a disadvantage. Not sure there is a youtube video that |teaches you to say: | |:map , !}fmt vim can do this built-in (sufficiently for me). map {gq} Rarely (GNU) fmt (only, the latter) can really do better map M :'{,'}!fmt 64 66 map m :'{,'}!fmt --uniform-spacing --width=66 --goal=64 I have forgotten the cryptic meaning - Don't ask me no question, I know a little, All i can do is write about it, Am i losin', I never dreamed That smell (sweet home alabama). I must now get explicitly rid of things in [ci]?map however (like , C-X, C-E etc) to be a free bird. 'Just a Simple Man. But enough Lynyrd Skynyrd southern US! (Sorry!) For decades i want to check out vile, but never made it there for long. (Now that i switched back to tabulator indentation maybe. It now can spaces, on the other hand, i think. Comments auto-joining back over lines in vim's C mode is so nice, then again.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)