Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 28/08/2024 01:58, gene heskett wrote: wakeup time is 5 + seconds by which time a sleeve caught on a chuck jaw has already tried to rip an arm off. Taking into account your approach to configure applications so sudo chmod 644 /etc/xdp/autostart/xscreensaver.desktop You need a larger red h

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread Lee
On Sun, Sep 1, 2024 at 10:57 AM David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 01 Sep 2024 at 01:05:21 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: > > > And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login > > > again after the screen locks itself is likely caused by con

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Sep 2024 at 01:05:21 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: > > And so should we assume Gene's report that he needs to actually login > > again after the screen locks itself is likely caused by confusing the > > unlocking screen with a login screen? Being DE-

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread gene heskett
On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread gene heskett
On 8/31/24 22:58, David Wright wrote: On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread David Wright
On Sat 31 Aug 2024 at 18:01:59 (+1000), George at Clug wrote: > On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: > > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: > > >> > > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > > >>> screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread George at Clug
On Saturday, 31-08-2024 at 18:01 George at Clug wrote: > On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: > > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: > > >> > > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > > >>> screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do tha

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-31 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 28-08-2024 at 11:31 Trish Fraser wrote: > >On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: > >> > >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the > >>> screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me > >>> again. > >> > >> Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Aug 2024 at 11:13:16 (-0400), gene heskett wrote⁰: > On 8/27/24 21:03, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 15:42:56 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > > David Wright composed on 2024-08-26 14:36 (UTC-0400): > > > > > > > ¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyb

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Trish Fraser
>On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: >> >>> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the >>> screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me >>> again. >> >> Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the >> screensaver. >> >> Good luck! >>

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue 27 Aug 2024 at 14:58:14 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 8/26/24 14:37, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > > > xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ] > > > came across a dangerous situation yesterday. > > > > > > Basically using the lathe

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 02:44:52PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/26/24 14:25, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > Gene, > > > > First things first: where did the image come from? > > 32 or 64 bit? Exact version string from uname -

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 14:37, David Wright wrote: On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ] came across a dangerous situation yesterday. Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping by hand, powered up but stopped. screen bla

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 14:25, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. Gene, First things first: where did the image come from?

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 01:56:43PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2024-08-27 10:14 (UTC-0400): > > > tomas@ wrote: > > >> Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would > >> disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page > >> f

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2024-08-27 10:14 (UTC-0400): > tomas@ wrote: >> Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off", which would >> disable the screensaver *and* the DPMS blanking. See the xset man page >> for all the gory details. This [1] is a good overview for all the >> other t

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 14:09, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, gene heskett wrote: rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 13:27, Trish Fraser wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. Seems like, in XFCE, you need to go into settings and disable the screensaver. Good luck! That I'm assuming is canceled

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 12:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. [...] You have provided lots of details which don't help u

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 10:14:59AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/26/24 12:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Assuming, again, you are under X11, there is "xset s off" [...] > That apparently turned it off for this boot. Good news! [...] > so It is always turned off? I think its runnin

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-27 Thread gene heskett
On 8/26/24 12:46, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. [...] You have provided lots of details which don't help u

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 27/08/2024 01:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker". There are mechanical mouse platforms, pseudo-mouse USB devices, and even software emulated mice. This case it would be e

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> - most of the desktop environments incorporate some element of screen > blanking for security (or power saving). There's also "burn in" for some monitor technologies. Stefan

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2024-08-26 14:36 (UTC-0400): > ¹ touch Ctrl, the key at the extreme bottom left of the keyboard, > to defeat it. Are you sure? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_keyboard_-.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AT_keyboard_original_layout.png https://

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-08-26 15:29, gene heskett wrote: S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. In Settings>Power Manager I selected "do nothing" or "never" for all the options. If want to blank the monitor I use t

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, > screen blanker came on and locked me out till I logged back in If everything else fails: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker". There are mechanical mouse platf

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread David Wright
On Mon 26 Aug 2024 at 10:29:10 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, [ … ] > came across a dangerous situation yesterday. > > Basically using the lathe as a jig to hold a long piece I was tapping > by hand, powered up but stopped. screen blanker came on and locked me > ou

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed > garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. > Gene, First things first: where did the image come from? Is it originally from Raspberry Pi OS?

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread fxkl47BF
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024, gene heskett wrote: > rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a > closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. > > xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an > 11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> S, what do I remove to absolutely, permanently disable the screen > blanker? And I mean no chance it can ever do that to me again. IME, this is a bit of an uphill battle, sadly. Basically, lots of tools can request/cause some kind of "screen blanking" so you can never be sure you've disable

Re: need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread tomas
On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 10:29:10AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed > garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. [...] You have provided lots of details which don't help us help you. But, alas, you left out the in

need help killing screen blanker

2024-08-26 Thread gene heskett
rpib runniing bookworm. Private net. rt-preempt kernel. Security is a closed garage door and lead projectiles for unwanted guests. xfce4 desktop, running linuxcnc, which controls all 255 volt power to an 11x56" lathe with several horsepower at its disposal. New install, came across a dangerous

Re: need help: unmet dependencies

2024-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Michael Morgan wrote: > When I ran "apt --fix-broken install", I got the following message: > > The following additional packages will be installed: > chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra > The following packages will be upgraded: > chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra > >

need help: unmet dependencies

2024-08-01 Thread Michael Morgan
Dear all, I don't know much about linux and need your kind help. My son's Raspberry Pi 4B's OS is "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" (from "/etc/os-release"). Yesterday I tried to run "apt update" "apt upgrade", but it stuck at upgrading package "chromium-browser" (The progress status bar froze; c

Solution [Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-07-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2024 12:17 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 06:37:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] When searching for information on regular expressions I came across one that did it by searching for {"1 thru 9" OR "10 thru 99" OR "100 thru 999"} . I lost the reference ;

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-30 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-30 14:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 12:32:15 +0100, mick.crane wrote: got it thanks. I don't know what you're trying to do, but ERE [0-7]{1,2} matches one- or two-digit *octal* numbers (e.g. 5, 07, 72, 77) but not numbers that contains the digits 8 or 9. D

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 09:21:57AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Do you have a book whose verses are enumerated in octal? No one clarified that this was the *Christian* Bible. 😀 Thanks, Andy

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 12:32:15 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > got it thanks. > > > > > > > I don't know what you're trying to do, but ERE [0-7]{1,2} matches one- or two-digit *octal* numbers (e.g. 5, 07, 72, 77) but not numbers that contains the digits 8 or 9. Do you have a book whose verses

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-30 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 20:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote: Oh, I see what the question was. There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany I'm not very good at regular expressions. I'd probably do it 3 times "search for" "search f

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread Will Mengarini
* Richard [24-06/30=Su 00:57 +0200]: > That's how you warrant your ban, idiot. Don't get yourself banned, Richard. Anybody else remember Erik Naggum?

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 00:57:07 +0200, Richard wrote: > That's how you warrant your ban, idiot. Let it go. Don't keep pouring more fuel on the fire. Add Curt to your killfile (or whatever your MUA calls your ban list). He's already been banned by the list admins anyway, so your local ban is jus

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread Richard
That's how you warrant your ban, idiot. On 29.06.24 20:40, Curt wrote: On 2024-06-29, wrote: Defamatory. What are you, a fucking lawyer? Sue me then, you little snit. Bad day today? As usual, you cut all that was pertinent to your meretricious commentary and left only what suited your brai

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 20:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote: Oh, I see what the question was. There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany I'm not very good at regular expressions. I'd probably do it 3 times "search for" "search f

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 20:18:02 +0100, mick.crane wrote: > Oh, I see what the question was. > There is "use regular expressions", "use multi line matching" in Geany > I'm not very good at regular expressions. > I'd probably do it 3 times > "search for" > "search for" > "search for" There's mor

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 16:09, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/06/2024 20:07, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote: To manipulate with HTML it is better to write a script in some programming language, e.g. for python there are lxml etree and BeautifulSoup packages. This way it is easier to m

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Jun 2024 at 17:08:04 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-06-28 20:53:50 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > Yes, it almost certainly can be done with a single sed (or other > > similar tool) invocation where the regular expression matches > > precisely what you want it to match. But

Re: Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-29, wrote: > > >> Defamatory. What are you, a fucking lawyer? Sue me then, you little snit. > > Bad day today? As usual, you cut all that was pertinent to your meretricious commentary and left only what suited your brain-damaged hypocrisy. BTW, eliding a succinct paragraph to leave o

Curt having his fits [was: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs]

2024-06-29 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 05:43:15PM -, Curt wrote: [...] > Defamatory. What are you, a fucking lawyer? Sue me then, you little snit. Bad day today? I can't help you. I'm out of this thread. -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-29, wrote: > >> Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason. > > This is wrong, borderline defamatory. Richard Owlett is not a Andy Smith: It's not an authentic Owlett thread unless it contains an enormous XY problem, a monomaniacal obsession with a solution already pa

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 06:37:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > When searching for information on regular expressions I came across one that > did it by searching for >{"1 thru 9" OR "10 thru 99" OR "100 thru 999"} . > I lost the reference ;< That would be something like ([0-9]|[1-9]

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 04:02:56PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2024-06-29, Michael Kjörling wrote: > >> > >> HUH ?? > > > > ..._focus on the goal_. > > > > > Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason. This is wrong, borderline defamatory. Richard Owlett is not a troll [1]. He

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Lee
Hi, > > So you may prefer to use regexes as > > Murphy intended, handling both the opening and closing tags at the same > > time, leaving the intervening text intact. > > In this particular case I suspect it would become overly complex. > I've already discovered that the order of edits is importan

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-29, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> >> HUH ?? > > ..._focus on the goal_. > Owlett is a notorious troll who never listens to reason. But you people adore this kind of troll, inexplicably, perhaps because he allows you to expand endlessly on your reams of essentially useless knowl

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/06/2024 20:07, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote: To manipulate with HTML it is better to write a script in some programming language, e.g. for python there are lxml etree and BeautifulSoup packages. This way it is easier to maintain valid document structure with pai

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2024-06-28 20:53:50 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > Yes, it almost certainly can be done with a single sed (or other > similar tool) invocation where the regular expression matches > precisely what you want it to match. But unless this is something you > will do very often, I tend to prefer rea

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 01:46:27PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 29 Jun 2024 06:12 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): > >> there may be other closing tags you don't want to > >> change because they close other tags we haven't seen. > > > > Chuckle ;} The appropriate "

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 29 Jun 2024 05:51 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): >> Ignoring the question about Emacs > > Emacs *CAN NOT* be ignored. I did not say to ignore _Emacs_. I said that I was ignoring the _question_ about Emacs, to instead... >> and focusing on the goal (your ^^

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 29 Jun 2024 06:12 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): >>> $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's,>> id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done >> >> Having done that (or similar), don't forget to change the relevant >> closing tags to closing tags. However, there may be >> other closing tags

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread mick.crane
On 2024-06-29 12:34, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/06/2024 11:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Do M-x (hold Meta, most of the time your Alt key, then "x"). You get a command for a prompt. Enter "query-replace-regexp" And to get help for this function C-h f query-replace-regexp RET To open user m

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2024 06:51 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): I need to replace ANY occurrence of thru [at most] by I'm reforma

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 07:43:47 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > The option "g" means that said should do this multiple times if > it occurs in the same file (globally, like grep) instead of the > default behavior which is to find the first match and just > change that. The g option in sed's s command

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 21:23:03 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 + > Michael Kjörling wrote: > > > $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's, > id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done > > > > Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few > > files afte

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): > > > I need to replace ANY occurrence of > > > > > >thru [at most] > > > > > > by > > > > > > > > > I'm reformatting a Bible

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread debian-user
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard > > Owlett): > >> I need to replace ANY occurrence of > >> > >>thru [at most] > >> > >> by > >> > >> > >> I'm reformatting a Bible st

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 11:48 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. I would be *very* surprised if an editor, these days and age can't

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Max Nikulin
On 29/06/2024 11:48, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Do M-x (hold Meta, most of the time your Alt key, then "x"). You get a command for a prompt. Enter "query-replace-regexp" And to get help for this function C-h f query-replace-regexp RET To open user manual switch to the help buffer and press

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 10:23 PM, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 + Michael Kjörling wrote: $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's,,,g' ./*.html; done Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few files afterwards to make sure that the result is as you int

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 03:53 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): I need to replace ANY occurrence of thru [at most] by I'm reformatting a Bible stored in HTML format for a particular set of vision impaired seniors (my

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 02:33 PM, Van Snyder wrote: On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 14:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. Emacs can. It has much verbose documentation. But examples seem rather scarce.

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2024 02:17 PM, didier gaumet wrote: Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. [...] Hello Richard, According to the Mate wiki, Pluma handles regular expressions t

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 09:17:14PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : > > Pluma is my editor of choice. > > *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular > > expressions. > [...] > > Hello Richard, > > According to the Mate wiki

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Pluma is my editor of choice. > *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular > expressions. I would be *very* surprised if an editor, these days and age can't do regular expressions. Really. > Emacs can.

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:53:50 + Michael Kjörling wrote: > $ for v in $(seq 1 119); do sed -i 's, id="V'$v'">,,g' ./*.html; done > > Be sure to have a copy in case something goes wrong; and diff(1) a few > files afterwards to make sure that the result is as you intended. Having done that (or

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 28 Jun 2024 14:04 -0500, from rowl...@access.net (Richard Owlett): > I need to replace ANY occurrence of > > thru [at most] > > by > > > I'm reformatting a Bible stored in HTML format for a particular set of > vision impaired seniors (myself included). Each chapter is in it

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread Van Snyder
On Fri, 2024-06-28 at 14:04 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Pluma is my editor of choice. > *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving > regular > expressions. > > Emacs can. It has much verbose documentation. > But examples seem rather scarce. nedit can handle regular expres

Re: Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le 28/06/2024 à 21:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. [...] Hello Richard, According to the Mate wiki, Pluma handles regular expressions the Perl way: https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/mat

Need help with narroely focused use case of Emacs

2024-06-28 Thread Richard Owlett
Pluma is my editor of choice. *BUT* it can NOT handle Search and Replace operations involving regular expressions. Emacs can. It has much verbose documentation. But examples seem rather scarce. I need to replace ANY occurrence of thru [at most] by I'm reformatting a Bible

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 14:39 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, Thanks, Thomas. I did get the signers key fingeprints from their personal github pages. I would go the full security route if it were only my use I'm concerned with, but I'm working on a Raku module for others and I don't want them to be

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread debian-user
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Tom Browder wrote: > > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of > > Rakudo downloadable files. > > Do i get it right that you talk about https://rakudo.org/downloads ? > > > Question:  How can I get the fingerprint from the downloads

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tom Browder wrote: > I found a usable answer. Run "gpg file.asc" and the output shows the two > fingerprints: the primary key fingerprint and the subkey fingerprint. Wow, that's surprising. But indeed the man page says: COMMANDS ... gpg may be run with no commands, in which case i

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 05:13 Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 3:29 AM DdB > wrote: > > Am 08.10.2023 um 01:16 schrieb Tom Browder: > > > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of > > > Rakudo downloadable files. > > > Question: How can I get the fingerprint f

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, maybe gpg --keyid-format long --verify signature_file.asc /some/dummy/file this gives me the last 16 characters of the fingerprint. Like: gpg:using key E9CBDFC0ABC0A854 with a matching payload file i get something like: Primary key fingerprint: 44BC 9FD0 D688 EB

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Dan Purgert
On Oct 08, 2023, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 3:29 AM DdB > wrote: > > Am 08.10.2023 um 01:16 schrieb Tom Browder: > > > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of > > > Rakudo downloadable files. > > > Question: How can I get the fingerprint from the downlo

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Oct 8, 2023 at 3:29 AM DdB wrote: > Am 08.10.2023 um 01:16 schrieb Tom Browder: > > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of > > Rakudo downloadable files. > > Question: How can I get the fingerprint from the downloads? > There is more than just one way to archie

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tom Browder wrote: > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of Rakudo > downloadable files. Do i get it right that you talk about https://rakudo.org/downloads ? > Question:  How can I get the fingerprint from the downloads?  > The products I download are (1) the file

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-07 Thread DdB
Am 08.10.2023 um 01:16 schrieb Tom Browder: > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of > Rakudo downloadable files. > > Question:  How can I get the fingerprint from the downloads?  > > The products I download are (1) the file of interest, (2) a PGP signed > checksums fi

Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-07 Thread Tom Browder
I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of Rakudo downloadable files. Question: How can I get the fingerprint from the downloads? The products I download are (1) the file of interest, (2) a PGP signed checksums file with various shaX hashes for the file, and (3) a separat

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread songbird
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and > the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next.  > I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with > the base from which I get updates, etc.  I used th

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread David Christensen
is a fresh install onto a zeroed drive. Next, install the applications you want. Then connect the USB HDD, mount the file system, and restore your data. Restoring application-specific data, such as a Thunderbird profile, may require additional steps. Please post if you need help with any of

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I used the reinstall on brasero and it just said that it was up to date. What error message does Brasero issue before refusing to work ? What optical medium type do you give Brasero for burning ? I can probably help with composing a xorriso run which performs a simi

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Tom Dial
On 5/1/23 19:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next. I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates, et

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-05-01 at 21:51, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot install anything. I used the command line and > the app but neither of them will work. I suspect that if you don't have the various directories under /var/, you may not be able to use apt or aptitude or synaptic or the like

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Unfortunately I cannot install anything.  I used the command line and the app but neither of them will work.  I have no idea what to do next.  I used su and sudo first.  It just keeps saying it cannot connect with the base from which I get updates, etc.  I used the reinstall on brasero and it j

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-01 Thread Tom Dial
This Debian-user thread seems to have gone silent, but it is not clear whether your problem is solved. If it is, just ignore this and move on. If not: The Wanderer, in an earlier post (04/28/2023 at 19;02), suggested reinstalling the base-files package. I believe this is the correct procedure,

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread David Christensen
On 4/28/23 17:25, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am 72 and have forgotten a few things.  I looked up debian/var and was told I could delete /var/log/ and /var/tmp/ and /var/cores/.  I left cores alone and deleted the other two.  Now I cannot burn a backup, download files and even go to web sites f

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Apr 2023 at 22:36:39 (-0400), Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Here is what I got. > > root@debian:/var# /bin/ls -ld */ > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 15:46 backups/ > drwxr-xr-x 19 root root   4096 Apr 12 20:20 cache/ > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 20:59 cores/ > drwxr-xr-x 

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > even after a reboot I still cannot burn a back up disk. In case the crisis lasts longer or you need to make a backup before its solution: What program do you use to burn your backups and what does it report when failing ? What kind of media shall be burnt ? Have a

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:05:01PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Yes my figures are very similar to yours.  But even after a reboot I still > cannot burn a back up disk. One problem may be that /var/log has subdirectories which don't belong to root. Applications trying to write their logs might

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Here is what I got. root@debian:/var# /bin/ls -ld */ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 15:46 backups/ drwxr-xr-x 19 root root   4096 Apr 12 20:20 cache/ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Apr 28 20:59 cores/ drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Nov 13  2020 games/ drwxr-xr-x 62 root root   4096 Apr 12

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:05:01PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Yes my figures are very similar to yours.  But even after a reboot I still > cannot burn a back up disk. Do not look at the NUMBERS. OWNER. GROUP. PERMISSIONS. The numbers mean nothing. > On 4/28/23 9:04 PM, Greg Wooledge wro

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