Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-25 Thread Michael O'Sullivan
dvtm is a good alternative too, and feels a little more natural for vim users (the default key binding creates a clash with ^g though). Michael On 24 August 2011 21:22, Anton Piatek wrote: > I quite like tmux as an alternative to screen, it has better layout control > than screen. > > Anton > -

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Anton Piatek
I quite like tmux as an alternative to screen, it has better layout control than screen. Anton - Anton Piatek (sent from my phone, please excuse any typos) email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were des

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:08:21AM +0530, pavithran wrote: > One cool thing which screen allows is to log on irc forever ! Also one of the worst things it allows us to log on irc forever ! Cheers, Andy signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Benjie Gillam
One of the great things about screen is you can set it up as the remote command for when you SSH into a box, so you always continue where you left off (very useful if you're connecting from your phone or from anywhere over a 3G/EDGE/GPRS/packet radio/... network). Also you can set up a configura

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Tony Wood
:-D Tony Wood (from Linux Netbook) On 24/08/11 16:06, Freaky Clown wrote: apparently some people use a "mouse" to click stuff... it will never catch on! On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Tony Wood wrote: OK, I'll buy it: what's>clickety

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread pavithran
On 24 August 2011 19:15, Victor Churchill wrote: > That and, subsequently, screen. Screen is something which I heard like 3 years back but never tried it , now I absolutely love , can't live without GNU Screen ! One cool thing which screen allows is to log on irc forever ! Regards, Pavithran

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Freaky Clown
apparently some people use a "mouse" to click stuff... it will never catch on! On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Tony Wood wrote: > > OK, I'll buy it:  what's >clickety<  all about please? > > Tony Wood > (from Linux Netbook) > > On 24/08/11 15:02, Vic wrote: >>> >>> One of the great (and sometime

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Tony Wood
OK, I'll buy it: what's >clickety< all about please? Tony Wood (from Linux Netbook) On 24/08/11 15:02, Vic wrote: One of the great (and sometimes surprising and sometimes even annoying) things about this technology is it keeps on coming up with new tool and ways to do stuff. I'm usually cau

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Vic
> One of the great (and sometimes surprising > and sometimes even annoying) things about this technology is it keeps on > coming up with new tool and ways to do stuff. I'm usually caught out mid-way through a rant about how $tool would be excellent if only it did $thing. "What, like this >clicke

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Victor Churchill
On 24 August 2011 11:29, Rob Malpass wrote: > > Lovely - that's exactly what I need - many thanks. Incredible - I've been > using Unix for nearly 20 years and I've never heard of that command. > You are not alone there Rob. I thought exactly the same after I first encountered the watch comman

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-24 Thread Rob Malpass
> -Original Message- > From: hampshire-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:hampshire- > boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Huggins > Sent: 23 August 2011 12:24 > To: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Subject: Re: [Hampshire] ls -l > > On Tue, Aug 23,

Re: [Hampshire] ls -l

2011-08-23 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:22:17PM +0100, Rob Malpass wrote: > Is there a way to have ls -l update in real time? You could just run: watch ls -l (as long as the output isn't bigger than your terminal that would probably do what you want) -- Simon [ hug...@earth.li ] *\ "Engage