On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:19 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> And while we're on Apple Hate ...
>
> Tiger won't send my shiny new LCD monitor to sleep properly. The
> screensaver kicks in fine, then a few minutes later the screen's
> backlight turns off - but then a few seconds later comes back on.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 05:31:01PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> At least they mercifully use an additive system (ie. alt-n n to produce ñ
Alt-n n displays a funny coloured squiggle, then deletes it and bleeps
at me. Got a little bug to fix there.
Presumably there's some obscure preference
David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:46:12PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Fortunately, OS X comes with the built-in ability to turn Caps Lock into a
modifier key. Unfortunately they felt the need to bury it under a button in
the otherwise empty Keyboard preference.
Unfortunate
On 10 Jan 2009, at 16:41, David Cantrell wrote:
[...]
Unfortunately they also forgot to include any way of remapping the
rest
of the keyboard. It would be Really Handy for me to be able to press
Something-o to get the oe ligature, something-a to get the ae
ligature,
something-t for thorn, s
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:46:12PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Fortunately, OS X comes with the built-in ability to turn Caps Lock into a
> modifier key. Unfortunately they felt the need to bury it under a button in
> the otherwise empty Keyboard preference.
Unfortunately they also forgot
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Martin Ebourne wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 13:37 -0500, Numien wrote:
> > Nope, that's a different "Accessibility" hotkey. Tapping shift 5 times
> > gives you "StickyKeys" where holding down right shift for 8 seconds
> > gives you "FilterKeys."
> > Holding down
Chris Devers wrote:
> More to the point, if you want to switch from the current application
> and interact with Windows itself
Ah ha, I see your problem. :P
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Joshua Juran wrote:
On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:08 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
the most obnoxious fat finger target since Caps Lock
The Caps Lock problem was actually solved decades ago by NeXT. On
NeXT's keyboards there was no dedicated Caps Lock key, and Caps Lock
mode was enabled by holding down
On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 13:37 -0500, Numien wrote:
> Nope, that's a different "Accessibility" hotkey. Tapping shift 5 times
> gives you "StickyKeys" where holding down right shift for 8 seconds
> gives you "FilterKeys."
> Holding down numlock for 5 seconds gives you a third one too, but that
> at lea
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Matt McLeod wrote:
| It gets better. Under some circumstances -- the precise details elude
| me, as I haven't used Windows as a primary environment for some time
| now -- you merely have to hold the shift key down for a few seconds to
| trigger the po
Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Oh, so you might think! Not so much, if you were to (for example) play
> some sort of computer game that uses the shift or control key to perform
> some sort of action.
>
> In that case, if you were to hit it five times in quick succession, you
> would be treated to a wond
Smylers writes:
> Michael G Schwern writes:
>
>> rather than use the Windows key as an additional modifier key, like
>> the Apple/Command key, freeing up Control, they made it A) the most
>> obnoxious fat finger target since Caps Lock and B) imbued it with a
>> set of randomly assigned chords.
>
>
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:37:58AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
> Obligatory software hate: Instead of mucking around with keystroke
> timing (e.g. ignoring very quick presses of Caps Lock on new
> keyboards) ...
Oh, that's deliberate? I thought it was a convenient hardware fault in
my new MB
On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:08 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
the most obnoxious fat finger target since Caps Lock
The Caps Lock problem was actually solved decades ago by NeXT. On
NeXT's keyboards there was no dedicated Caps Lock key, and Caps Lock
mode was enabled by holding down Command and tap
Michael G Schwern writes:
> rather than use the Windows key as an additional modifier key, like
> the Apple/Command key, freeing up Control, they made it A) the most
> obnoxious fat finger target since Caps Lock and B) imbued it with a
> set of randomly assigned chords.
Moreover, 'normal' modifie
Philip Newton wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 00:31, Peter Corlett wrote:
>> One would have thought, what with Microsoft inventing a new PC keyboard
>> layout for Windows 95 that included Windows and Menu keys, that it might use
>> *those* for accelerators. But no... the key's sole purpose appears
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 00:31, Peter Corlett wrote:
> One would have thought, what with Microsoft inventing a new PC keyboard
> layout for Windows 95 that included Windows and Menu keys, that it might use
> *those* for accelerators. But no... the key's sole purpose appears to be to
> randomly cause
On 8 Jan 2009, at 16:41, Abigail wrote:
[...]
It used to be that ^W closed the current window, if the focus wasn't
on a text input field or if the URL bar had the focus. In such a case,
^W would erase the word before the cursor. Just like 'readline'.
This is no longer the case. ^W always kills a
Abigail writes:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:37:09AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
>> On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>>
>>> Aquamacs mercifully changes apple-w from uselessly closing the Emacs
>>> window
>>> (never what an Emacs user wants) to kill-this-buffer.
>>
>> Like a t
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 10:37:09AM -0800, Joshua Juran wrote:
> On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
>> Aquamacs mercifully changes apple-w from uselessly closing the Emacs
>> window
>> (never what an Emacs user wants) to kill-this-buffer.
>
> Like a tabbed Web browser? I agree
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 10:21 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Walt Mankowski wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:13:34AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> >> Emacs has this hate, too. I haven't yet found a "close all buffers"
> >> function,
> >> though at least I can find out quickly what has u
help.
>
> Aquamacs mercifully changes apple-w from uselessly closing the Emacs window
> (never what an Emacs user wants) to kill-this-buffer. I can just smash that
> chord rather than repeating the hand cramping "ctrl-x k".
In ultraedit you just highlight all the files in
On Jan 7, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
Aquamacs mercifully changes apple-w from uselessly closing the
Emacs window
(never what an Emacs user wants) to kill-this-buffer.
Like a tabbed Web browser? I agree that altering the meaning of
Command-W is a big improvement for tabbed
Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:13:34AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>> Emacs has this hate, too. I haven't yet found a "close all buffers"
>> function,
>> though at least I can find out quickly what has unsaved changes.
>>
>> I could probably hack something together in elis
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 09:13:34AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Emacs has this hate, too. I haven't yet found a "close all buffers" function,
> though at least I can find out quickly what has unsaved changes.
>
> I could probably hack something together in elisp, but then I'd have to touch
>
demerphq wrote:
> Why would anyone think it is sensible to provide useful functionality
> that can only be accessed by closing the application?
>
> When I write Perl scripts I often use gedit to execute the program and
> capture the output in the editor. Sometimes I want the seque
2009/1/7 Walt Mankowski :
> You could solve most of these problems by using shell buffers in
> emacs, but of course that would bring about its own new hates.
I'd run Ultraedit under wine before i did that. Now thats a real editor. :-)
Yves
--
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
You could solve most of these problems by using shell buffers in
emacs, but of course that would bring about its own new hates.
Why would anyone think it is sensible to provide useful functionality
that can only be accessed by closing the application?
When I write Perl scripts I often use gedit to execute the program and
capture the output in the editor. Sometimes I want the sequence of
output changes preserved, sometimes
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