unixplumber

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by unixplumber 10mo ago
> Terminal emulators display grids of characters using all sorts of horrifying protocols. What sort of "horrifying protocols"? The entire VT220 state machine diagram can be printed on a single letter- or A4-sized sheet of paper
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by unixplumber 10mo ago
> I guess that copying from the output of cat file on a terminal is one of those unfortunate cases. It depends on the terminal. Some will actually preserve the line breaks vs soft wraps. Those terminals will reflow the text when you resi
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by unixplumber 10mo ago
You can do the same with text. If your messaging client is lame and forces wrapping, copy and paste the text to a real text editor with left/right scroll and your font and color scheme and other preferences of choice.
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by unixplumber 10mo ago
> still has syntax highlighting (using the sizes/colors/styles that I'm accustomed to) Where I work I find it's usually the youngins using a ridiculous light on dark color scheme that post screenshots of code. Are we
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by unixplumber 10mo ago
But at least text can be copy-pasted by the receiving user into a real text editor of their choice if there's an actual need to preserve tabular/indented/wide text.
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by unixplumber 10mo ago
One really nice thing about a distributed version control system is that it lets me as a developer make commits to track my work without having to push them to a central location and pollute the global commit history of the repository. I ca
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by unixplumber 10mo ago
I use the CLI git to stage lines. Use `git add -p` to add only the lines you want to commit with your chosen text editor.
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by unixplumber 1y ago
tmux is MIT-licensed, right? The MIT license is very similar to the (3-clause) BSD license which makes it upward-compatible with the GPL (you can incorporate MIT- or BSD-licensed code with GPL-licensed code). Edit: and to your point of a di
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by unixplumber 1y ago
> Though conversely, when someone buys the trademark for an existing piece of software, and replaces it with something entirely different, like what happened with Audacity, that's also bad. So there's no good solution. I'v