Mofi on FR

Shawn Thompson mokowatch at projektenterprises.com
Mon Sep 1 08:40:47 CEST 2008


roguemoko at roguewrt.org wrote:
> Nishit Dave wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:40 AM, <roguemoko at roguewrt.org 
>> <mailto:roguemoko at roguewrt.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Nishit Dave wrote:
>>     > Why doesn't somebody fix the charmed file in the repos?  This change
>>     > has also been recommended in the GPRS with GSM Multiplexing and GUI
>>     > subsection on the wiki.  What happens in a real-world scenario is
>>     > people trying to use vi on the phone's tiny screen estate, standing
>>     > around wifi hotspots, if they know they have to change init() to
>>     > _init().  Finding line 82 is very difficult unless you are a vi
>>     > wizard.  The tiny letters on the keyboard (and that's hoping it is
>>     > raster's kbd, not the original one) make it even worse.
>>
>>     vi command to locate line 82:
>>
>>     :82
>>
>>     Then enter.
>>
>>     Alakazam! hehe
>>
>>     Sarton
>>
>> Cute!  I only wish I had that information when I was fooling around on 
>> the FR looking like the ultimate geek in a public place.  Oh, for the 
>> want of a proper text editor...
>>     
>
> I understand. There are very few commands that are required in order to 
> use vi effectively but I know from experience, I was lucky to have 
> learned these very early on in my *nix career.
>
> The best one I find is the ability to suck in output from an external 
> command:
>
> !!grep value ./defaults/config
>
> A life saver when you have no copy and paste!
>
> Sarton
>
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Is there an opkg package for emacs?




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