Hi :) Tab complete is what i was trying to describe in this thread the other day, possibly yday although it's already nearly tomorrow here so possibly the day before yday.
Works on any unix-based platform so that includes Bsd although possibly not Mac. I've not seen a command-line on a Mac. Also works on the Grub command-line although i try to avoid that even more than the regular command-line as i'm even more clueless there. Point&click rules! (unless you are showing off) Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmas...@krackedpress.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 19:52 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing the Deb > >On 02/12/2013 11:10 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2013-02-10 10:27 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: >>> I do not like all that typing. >>> >>> What I do is use the default file manager and double click the archived >>> file and unarchive it. Then I take the folder that is created and >>> rename it to Lib or LibO. That way you do not need to type all of the >>> characters of the folder's name. >> >> Never heard of 'tab-completion'? >> >> Try hitting the tab key after typing one or two characters of the folder >> name and see what happens... >> > >Never heard of this. Never know of the Tab completion in the Terminal. > >Does it work with the Terminal that is in GNOME, MATE, Unity, KDE? How about >the one that comes with openSUSE and other non-Ubuntu systems. I have been >told that Debian and Ubuntu is "growing apart" so some distros are showing >both Ubuntu-based and Debian-based versions. > >What happens when you have two folders that are similar characters, except >some difference? > LibreOffice-4.0-installsvs. LibreOffice-3.6-installs? >You would have to make sure you go out till the difference? > >I tend to unarchive all of the downloaded file for my version at the same >time. For me, that is just the main install and the help pack. > > /To be honest, I never really got into doing all that much with the > terminal. I prefer to use a GUI to do the work. There are a very > large amount of things that the terminal can do that I do not know > of, or how to do those things that might help me once and a while. I >just never bought or download and GOODand easy to understand > reference to what you can do in the terminal. Of course, there are > different ways to do things in a Ubuntu/Debian system than you would > do the same thing in a openSUSE or RPM system. Different commands > and such. // > // > //I have tried things that others say work for the, but does not > work in my install of Ubuntu. That is one reason I have a laptop > that has a partition that I use to test new versions of Ubuntu and > desktop environments. I do not want to upgrade my 5 TB "production" > desktop and then find that something is not right. I did the > upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 on the laptop and it worked fine, but > totally crashed on my desktop causing me to need to wipe the system > and do a fresh install. I really did not want to have to reinstall > all of the packages over again, but in the end I had no choice to do > so and move my data files from my external backup drive. That took > days to complete./ > > >SO >I do not experiment with things on the Terminal, or almost never. > >I would love to "experiment" and see about creating a script that would >automate the install of LO from an earlier versionusing something like "sh >libre-update.run" and then have it do the removal of the older version and >install the newer one. I could place it in the folderthat contains the "DEBS" >folder so it will be version independent. But, if I do something wrong, how >bad will it go wrong? So right now I am not going toexperiment that way. > > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
