Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007, Dale wrote: > > >> It may be the wrong tool, but it has always worked before. I tend to >> use what works. I said this in a reply somewhere before. By the >> time I get good at using a command, like the now extinct etcat, they >> change it to something else with a whole different set of options. >> I'm hoping things will settle down then I can learn all this once. >> > > kwrite is an editor designed to edit smallish files, similar but > slightly better than notepad. Like all small editors, it probably loads > the entire file into memory before displaying it, and it gets very > confused with some contents, thinking that they are blocks of code that > can be collapsed. > > The program landscape will never settle down and leave you with a > definite set of programs - Linux lives, breathes, grows and evolves > almost exactly the way human societies do - always changing, always > adapting and never the same in any two places. > > A few base programs you can rely on though - like less. It's a file > viewer, designed to make it easy for you to look at the contents of > files. It's also the thing that displays man pages. I highly recommend > spending the few minutes it takes to get used to using it. It runs from > a terminal, which is also worth spending some time to get used to it. >
I use a terminal a lot. I use less pretty often too. It's just that I got used to Kwrite and it was working fine for me. I don't knock what is working. ;-) I always use man to display man pages. Am I weird? > >> Of course, if you wish to share a few commands with options and what >> they do, that may help. I'm not sure I even know what all the >> commands are right now. I got to much on my brain right now. It is >> like mush. >> >> hmmmm, I have used less for a lot for things but not files this big. >> I could wear out my page down key. LOL At least I don't have to >> look into the emerge.log very often. That's good. >> > > big files the size of emerge.log (8M on my machine) is exactly what less > excels at. The most useful key is of course "/" which lets you enter a > string of text to search for, then 'q" to quit and "h" displays a help > screen > > alan > > > My thing is getting to the bottom of the page in one key stroke. Maybe I need to man less and read a bit. :/ Oh well, time to learn something I guess. It seems Kwrite is off the path for a while. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
