Re: [nlug] Bottom-posting from a BlackBerry

2010-01-07 Thread John F. Eldredge
Unfortunately, I have since learned that, by design, the various BlackBerry phones will only store the first 32 KB of a message body. Anything after this point will be truncated. With most plain-text messages, this won't be a problem. All replies are sent as plain-text, even if received as HT

Re: [nlug] Bottom-posting from a BlackBerry

2010-01-07 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Howard White wrote: > Please take the following ONLY as humor. > > EMACS ON ANDROID!!! Yikes!! > Yeah anyone sane would use Vim :-) Andrew > > Howard > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post

Re: [nlug] Here it is

2010-01-07 Thread Kelly Brown
Good info... I also like this one. Control r lets you search your history in reverse and then run a command. It's hard to show you in text but if you hist control r from a bash prompt you'll go into a search mode. Then if you start typing a command it will display the first match. You can stop

Re: [nlug] Here it is

2010-01-07 Thread Greg Jones
--- On Thu, 1/7/10, Don Delp wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Curt > Lundgren > wrote: > > If you do "!se" you'll execute the most recent command > that starts with the > > letters "se".  I find I use this more than > re-executing by number. > > > > Curt > > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:4

Re: [nlug] Here it is

2010-01-07 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- "Jerry Perkins" wrote: > Dave, this is even new to me, so I am also sending it on to a couple > others. > > Reuse your history > > After some time learning and experimenting at the command line, you'll > find that you want to go back and repeat a command you executed at > some point during

Re: [nlug] Here it is

2010-01-07 Thread Don Delp
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Curt Lundgren wrote: > If you do "!se" you'll execute the most recent command that starts with the > letters "se".  I find I use this more than re-executing by number. > > Curt > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Perkins, Jerry wrote: >> >>    Dave, this is even ne

Re: [nlug] Here it is

2010-01-07 Thread Curt Lundgren
If you do "!se" you'll execute the most recent command that starts with the letters "se". I find I use this more than re-executing by number. Curt On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Perkins, Jerry wrote: > Dave, this is even new to me, so I am also sending it on to a couple > others. > > Reu