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  • Or they avoid the need for that solution by avoiding that problem in the first place?.

  • I don't even now how anyone keeps track of them and finds the ones they want. And how can you possibly do that quicker than just going to the page afresh.

    Part of working on a project for me is assembling links to important pages. It may be days, weeks or months later that I want to come back and there are the links. And of course, anything generically or regularly useful is just a bookmark as you say.

    It really seems like people keep tabs open just to keep a list of useful pages. There are much easier and more effective ways to do that.

  • No, it's a shell feature. Terminal emulators don't even know what shell are running typically, and I haven't heard of them adding shell features. That would require the terminal emulator knowing you're using bash, knowing how to interrogate history etc..

    From man bash:

      text
        
           yank-last-arg (M-., M-_)
                  Insert  the last argument to the previous command (the last word
                  of the previous history entry).  With a numeric argument, behave
                  exactly  like  yank-nth-arg.   Successive calls to yank-last-arg
                  move back through the history list, inserting the last word  (or
                  the  word  specified  by the argument to the first call) of each
                  line in turn.  Any numeric argument supplied to these successive
                  calls  determines  the direction to move through the history.  A
                  negative argument switches the  direction  through  the  history
                  (back or forward).  The history expansion facilities are used to
                  extract the last word, as if the "!$" history expansion had been
                  specified.
    
      
  • Funny, in the US I just saw a car that was an "SS" model and I thought "Huh, apparently SS doesn't immediately scream Nazis to Americans" (SS => Super Sport apparently, to Chevrolet)

  • Fewer keystrokes, more features, and the ability to see what you're about to do explicitly. How does that make it the poor man's option?

  • My entire Samsung appliance experience is one dishwasher but it was so shit that I was happy when it broke after 18 months and I will never buy another Samsung appliance. Didn't clean things and smelled like death if we didn't manually clean it once a week and run it empty on sanitize and never leave the door closed. Searching the internet told me it was widespread and people were considering class action lawsuits.

    It looked nice though. And was quiet.

  • So many people just can't understand this. In dense city streets your journey times are usually decided by how long you spend waiting in queues and barely affected at all by your top speed. Which is why you can get around a city by bike faster than by car, even though few transportation riders cruise at much more than ~16mph/25kph on the flat.

    I used to think that people just hadn't thought this through and realized it, but I've had a few online discussions where it's clear some people are just flat out incapable of understanding that when there's congestion, speeding to a traffic queue most often just means a longer wait in the queue, not a shorter journey time.

  • it always entertains me when a vim aficionado regurgitates the "just missing a good editor" joke, given that one of the editors Emacs offers is a pretty comprehensive clone of vim.

    (personally, I never had any problem with the default editor when I migrated to it from vi, though I was using a keyboard that already had ctrl next to a.)

  • I really f'ing love Emacs, and... this is true. I'm still constantly learning, 3 decades in.

    But that's part of its appeal - it's a constantly evolving, you tweak and modify it for your needs, and you grow and change together.

  • I hit the Compose key and then =/ gives , but I don't seem to be able to enter . For that and more obscure characters I'd open Emacs and run insert-char.

  • I came from vi, and use Emacs keys. This was quite some time ago so there weren't hoards of people telling me modal was superior and I should miss it, so I didn't. I don't think anything about it is more "kinda weird" than vi modal editing - just unfamiliar (as vi/vim once was), especially if you're not familiar with standard readline cursor control as also used in OS X.

    we can’t even vi" or ci" in emacs

    You should perhaps explain what this is and why it's essential. Funny to complain that you need a package for multiple cursors; people more often complain there's too much built into Emacs by default. It's easy to add though.

    The long and the short of it is, if you persist in trying to use familiar vim workflows in Emacs, you're swimming against the tide. More productive is to try to use Emacs in its own terms. Many vim->Emacs people persistently get hung up on basically "I find it awkward to use this vim workflow in Emacs", and of course they do. It's equally awkward to try to use Emacs workflows in vim.

  • Life in the UK isn't until death either. 16.5 years on average.

  • Sorry it's not a very direct answer but this is one of the many things that make Emacs such a comfortable environment once you're used to it, which takes ... a while.

    There is a man command and then of course it's just more text displayed so you can search and narrow and highlight etc. in the same way you do with any other text. Plus of course there are a few trivial bonuses like links to other man pages being clickable.

    It's all text and Emacs is a text manipulation framework (that naturally includes some editors).

  • You don't execute C source files. They have to be compiled.

    First point as someone else commented, that driver is already present in any mainstream kernel. It's very unlikely you have any need to build it.

    But if you really want to build it the command will be make that will get instructions from Makefile on how to build the driver. But there will be other tools and libraries needed.

  • Well all conventional air conditioners are strictly heat pumps, but when we say heat pump everyone usually means bi-directional heat pumps - ones that can provide heating as well as cooling. My Amazon results are not that and I was recently reading about them coming to market starting at $2k.

  • Same. I'm a little embarrassed that I have little idea what it's like. Last one I used daily was Windows 7. But then I wonder

    how convenient it all was and how was missing so many things

    What are these things I'm missing?

  • I feel like this is well named (run as user 0) so then I'm wondering what else you dislike and what you think would be improvements?

  • Where? My $300 U shaped window AC is modern quiet, tidy and efficient, but I was reading about window heat pumps being $2-3k.

  • Yeah, the whole observation needed the adjective American.

    Long so I noticed US soaps we're all wealthy people being miserable, while British soaps were all working class people being miserable, but Australian soaps were all working-class people being happy (after resolving some minor difficult situation).