@Braiam It is just a text editor but it is also the editing engine used by Kdevelop and you can add plugins to accomplish quite a bit of that functionality. Still, emacs or vim is the way to go :)
But I searched around in the hope to find a list of "newly added features" in Kate, to see if it has been added in the meantime, and couldn't find anything
in the KDE bug tracker, there are zero bugs found for the product "Kate" - which is strange, I know of at least one (unrelated here)
@rumtscho you are probably better off asking that on the site. None of use use Kate (we're heavily biased toward the giants of emacs and vim) in chat that I'm aware of.
and I just wonder why I can't find a bug tracking or project management tool which contains new and planned features for each revision. I must be searching in a wrong way.
@casey OK, you don't think it will be shut down with a "RTFM" attitude?
I know it must be written down somewhere, I just can't find the documentation.
I found strange characters showing up on two sites. Is there someplace I should report this besides mentioning it in here in chat? The first place I found them is here in the link in Gilles' comment: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/138374/… The second is here in the accepted answer: stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/…
You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. Because HTML can't be parsed by regex. Regex is not a tool that can be used to correctly parse HTML. As I have answered in HTML-and-regex questions here so many times before, the use of regex will not allow you to consume HTML. Regular expressions are a tool th...
@Braiam That's interesting, I didn't know that there is such a file. I found the git project, but didn't think of looking into it, because I don't know C or C++.
Anyway, I posted on the main site. I am maybe a bit too cautious after having seen very hostile attitude against beginner questions on some of the larger sites on the network.
So, thanks for the reassurance that it is fine as a question :)
Well here anyway, we're not so much hostile towards beginner questions, as we are towards questions which show no effort for the most basic of things. If you've proven that you've tried to solve the issue on your own, you'll be fine :-)
@Patrick I said that I searched for info, but of course there is always the possibility that I chose very dumb search terms and missed it totally. Especially unpleasant if it is in a place where I "should" have known to look.
I have a vector with 49 numeric values. I want to have a 7x7 numeric matrix instead.
Is there some sort of convenient automatic conversion statement I can use, or do I have to do 7 separate column assignments of the correct vector subsets to a new matrix? I hope that there is something like the...
Which is not a bad thing by itself, because I have found a solution for my own problem quite a few times during the process of creating a document which exhibits the isolated problem and nothing else.
But I think that a large part of the TeX site success is not just how much people need to work with it, but also how easy/hard it is to use it without asking somebody.
TeX has many, many strong sides. Intuitiveness is not one of them. In fact, this is a reason why I am creating this document in HTML. (The one I started my question about). I have no intention to put it online. I just need a nicely formatted document, with some "macros", and finish it quickly. It is much quicker to do it in HTML and format with CSS, using jQuery for the repeated parts, than to work with TeX.
@FaheemMitha If you ask the average person on the street if they use Unix and if they use LaTeX, the probability for both will be well under 1%, I think.
There are specialist groups which use both pretty intensively. Most sysadmins will have used Unix at some point in time, and quite a few use it all the time. Most STEM academic authors will have used LaTeX at some point in time, and quite a few use it all the time. Both have their niches, but both are a niche, if you look at it globally.
@FaheemMitha I started 5 years ago, but do it only sporadically
I use it when either 1) quality is important, speed not so much, or 2) speed is important, but there is not much special formatting involved, just stuff like a section hierarchy.
@casey thank you for your answer. I was thinking on trying something on the lines of it since I saw the file, but I wasn't sure that the file is available somewhere on my filesystem, as opposed as being used before compilation only, and besides I got sidetracked by chat.
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@terdon Without looking at what said script does, I'm betting it's just using the SE API. Probably just fetches the question history, including upvotes/downvotes.
@Patrick Perhaps. But the result is that you simply click on the vote count on any site and see the U/D votes. Irrespective of your rep. Works like a charm.
Just like I don't know much about Linux. I've been using it somewhat longer than TeX, maybe 6 and a half years. I am still learning the most basic stuff about it.
For example, just now, @casey 's suggestion to use locate was a revelation for me. I didn't know the command existed, even know I've needed such a command frequently.
@FaheemMitha For me, pork is a convenience meat. When I need a quick dinner, I shallow fry a piece of boneless pork in the pan, and cook a bag of frozen pre-seasoned vegetables as the side dish. So, when I have the time to dedicate to a good recipe, I try it with some other meat.
@casey did you get a chance to look at that AUCTeX question? BTW, it is disheartening to know that the two most active people in AUCTeX development (by far) are both students. I've chatted with both of them at different times. I thought they were beginning developers. Turns out they are the only developers. :-(
@casey by the way, thanks a lot for that solution! I already thought that this might be a good idea, but would have needed a lot more effort to pull it off by myself. I will wait a bit to give you the upvote, just to see if somebody will have a second suggestion - sometimes question don't get views at all if they already have an accepted answer. I still plan to give you the upvote, because you were first.
I just asked a question which I tagged with wifi, and was then referred to a possible duplicate which is tagged with wireless.
My first thought was that wireless is probably about all forms of wireless technology, including wifi, bluetooth, proprietary wireless USB devices, etc, but the tag wiki...
@rumtscho Hardly! It's used very commonly in at least France, Spain and Greece. I do seem to recall that wireless was the norm in the UK but I lived there more than a decade ago.
@terdon Here in Germany, everybody says WLAN, as a short form of "wireless LAN". Not even technically correct in all cases, but still a word which Germans see as a foreign addition to the language and expect English speakers to understand (which leads to comical situations). I think "wireless" will be easier to understand or find for a German than Wifi.
Although the average user probably doesn't know that WLAN stands for "wireless lan".
@terdon Yes, that's what I meant. I'm not sure if a merge automatically creates a synonym, but if it doesn't, my point is that maybe you should create one manually in addition to the merge.
@rumtscho Ah, no, I was thinking about synonyms. Don't know if tags can be merged as such or what that would mean (I've only been blue since yesterday).
@Patrick technically that's true, but only a tiny fraction of the people who use the word know that. So, for everyday purposes, you can't rely on the distinction.
@terdon I've been blue for much longer, but synonyms are so rare (at least for us) that I forgot what all the possibilities are. Maybe there wasn't a merge separate from synonym making.
But would we want an overall wireless tag? Why not just tag as bluetooth? Can one be an expert in all types of wireless communication? What do they have in common apart from a lack of cables?
@terdon, no. I ran a du command to check the disk usage. It's going on for a while. I used top command to check what is going on and top reports du has used 1.2G so far in the virtual memory.
the only time you want a more generic tag is for when your users wouldn't know which of the specific ones they need, and risk getting the wrong tag on the question.
@casey @terdon and anyone else interested: remember we have ethernet/networking tags, which are used in a hardware/firmware vs software fashion. My take in this one is to rename wireless to wifi and leave it at that
@strugee maybe - but in this case the op responded to a comment of mine and asked me please to post it as an answer so that op could accept it. I considered it thoughtful.
@terdon since you are so nifty about the shinnies, can you merge kernel-drivers into drivers as expressed here and tag it status-completed, that's the only thing left to do but retagging ~150 questions isn't my thing right now ;)
@Seth - I remembered. playing silly buggers with tit-for-tat downvoting is what he called it. The man is a hypocrite.
@Seth - In response I pointed out that I often upvoted posts of his own regardless of my personal opinion of him, and asked him how it was then that even though he acknowledged this as valid why had it only ever received a downvote? He did not reply, and the comments were all deleted.
Sounds like its working on /mounts/idir-server4/proj/factmonitoring/src/file_based/revised_bottom_up ... and that doesn't explain the memory use. Unless maybe that directory has something weird about it, like say having a million files. Even then, not sure why it'd use a ton of memory.
Re the wifi vs. wireless tags.... My thought is that 'wireless' as a "general" tag is pretty worthless. If your question is about bluetooth, use a bluetooth tag. If it's about wireless usb, use a usb (or wireless-usb) tag.
If we don't want wireless to be a synonym of wifi, perhaps we could blacklist wireless as a worhtless tag?
Andrew: With some video chipsets, yes. But it's not something you can just automatically do... Some cheaper video chipsets only use system RAM, and how much is controlled in the BIOS (if it's controllable). (or at least this is how it works according to my knowledge which is now several years old)
IOW, I think expecting people to use 'wireless' in a broad sense is both unrealistic (most people think of it as synonymous with wifi, even though it isn't really), and worthless (any question with a 'general' wireless tag ought to have a specific one--such as wifi, bluetooth, etc)
I see two arguments: Treat wireless as a colloquial synonym of wifi, which is the case. Or treat them both technically accurately, and blacklist 'wireless'.
But I'm barely a contributor here, so my opinion counts little :)
Patrick: IMHO, wireless as a general tag is worthless, because it's never meaningful to tag something as both bluetoothandwireless or both wifiandbluetooth
I have a vector with 49 numeric values. I want to have a 7x7 numeric matrix instead.
Is there some sort of convenient automatic conversion statement I can use, or do I have to do 7 separate column assignments of the correct vector subsets to a new matrix? I hope that there is something like the...
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