On 21.07.18 10:42, Richard Owlett wrote: > P.S. I've saved ~6 years of useful posts from this group. I've been trying > to figure out how to organize it in order to create a QWSBFA rather than a > FAQ. QWSBFA=="Questions Which Should Be Frequently Asked" ;/
There are so many paths that people have trodden, and so many levels of expertise, that survival notes are somewhat individualised, I figure. How best to manage it probably depends on your vintage. Over three decades I've accumulated ~ 420 pages of *nix user & sysadmin, embedded programming, and text munging notes. With folding enabled, Vim presents the single plain text file as one page - the table of contents. Headings are capitalised, and a ':' follows keywords (also capitalised). A search hit automatically unfolds to the fold level required. It's simple, easy to manage, and fast - but most importantly, my fingers know Vim. Stuff from technical lists which doesn't make it to the survival notes, i.e. the few % of posts worth keeping, are sorted on first reading to topic-specific mailboxes. Tonight there are: $ ls -1 mail/* | wc -l 1266 and $ ls -1 mail/cnc* | wc -l 454 are LinuxCNC-related. (Gene's favourite hobby.) Even with automated search, it's a lot easier to look for one keyword in a hundred posts from a single context, than try to make keyword combinations which will fight off out of context hits in a hundred thousand posts. > OWL ducks fer cover ;} Hopefully owl ducks make good cover. Erik
