Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

2019-11-28 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Emacs is always overkill. OTOH, "Emacs is overkill" is always > a lame excuse. It is parallel universe

Re: Serial port software

2019-11-28 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > How close you can get to "proper RS232 serial port operation" > will probably be limited by the USB <-> serial chip in that cable. Haha indeed there is too much junk out there. I did some research years ago and bought one with prolofic chip (made in Taiwan). It is definitely

Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

2019-11-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Nov 2019 at 07:02:08 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/27/2019 01:19 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Perhaps look for an editor that can select rectangular blocks. For > > example, emacs has rectangular variants of commands. > > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/em

Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

2019-11-28 Thread tomas
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 07:02:08AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/27/2019 01:19 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > >Perhaps look for an editor that can select rectangular blocks. For > >example, emacs has rectangular variants of commands. [...] > I browsed the documentation. It appears to be ove

High Swap usage after upgrade to Buster

2019-11-28 Thread Giovanni Bellac
Hi all, we have upgraded a bunch of servers from Wheezy to Buster and experiencing a excessive usage of Swap after the upgrades on all systems. We have done some testing on this: Swap usage with stock Buster Linux 4.19: highSwap usage with Buster backports Linux 5.3: highSwap usage with self-comp

Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

2019-11-28 Thread John Hasler
Richard Owlett writes: > [Emacs] reminds me somewhat of TECO which I used back in the 70's. It should: it's a direct descendant. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

2019-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/27/2019 01:19 PM, David Wright wrote: Perhaps look for an editor that can select rectangular blocks. For example, emacs has rectangular variants of commands. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html Back in the last millennium, I was using TDE (Thomson-Davi

Re: Extracting tabular text from a pdf

2019-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/27/2019 02:26 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I just remembered ;-) that I can send you a sample of what I got by selecting in Okular and then pasting into a text file. After thinking about it, maybe it is not what you're looking for (and you won't have to load Wheezy to find out, although I

Re: usb snooper

2019-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 28 November 2019 00:02:57 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > How else can one put a keyboard and mouse on an r-pi except via a > > usb port? > > I thought you were using bluetooth? > I think it is, range if I pickup the keyboard is 20+ feet. > > Stefan Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There

Re: usb snooper

2019-11-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 November 2019 23:31:49 Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:15:33 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The effect is as if the finger was lifted from the key for a > > > > hundred ms or so at random intervals. > > > > The linkage from the keyboard and mouse is wireless