Also PSA, I've installed Cinnamon in VM just to test one of my indicators, and guess what ? It does work. And I also got to fix a minor annoying bug that was there for couple years.
You can use ex (which is a mode of the vi editor) to accomplish this.
You can use the :read command to insert the contents into the file. That command takes a filename, but you can use the /dev/stdin pseudo-device to read from standard input, which allows you to use a <<EOF marker.
The :read co...
That kinda counts, although a lot of teas in the west aren't exactly the same as in Asia. Black tea is actually called red tea in China, IIRC, and black tea by Chinese standard would be Pu'Er type
As for milk tea I've mentioned, it's common beverage mixed with sweet flavors and highly concentrated, sold in shops/cafes
@Kusalananda Eval in lots of languages involves feeding a string to be executed. Not a great thing. With the notable exception of the Lisp family, which is actually sanely designed.
There might be other examples, but I don't know of them.
sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin
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adobe-flashplugin is already the newest version (1:20190212.1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1).
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@SergiyKolodyazhnyy Hmm, EFI. A bit outside my expertise. I've worked with it a little bit a couple of years ago. Anthony could probably answer that one.
@FaheemMitha Nah, if you read the error message they got there was something with the postinst shell script. Package itself was installed OK, probably, but now failed postinst script messes up with OP's other installations
Actually, I don't know if anyone actually likes TeX. Many of us use it, because it's the only game in town. It's either that or some horrible word processor.
Possibly with a proprietary binary format.
TeX has been around since the 1970s, but still has no significant competition on it's home turf, mathematical computer typesetting with a free markup language. In fact, it doesn't really have much competition when it comes to free computer typsetting, period.
@Jesse_b You can do a lot of things with TeX you can only dream of in a word processor. But for maximum effectives, you do need to be able to program TeX. See previous comment.
@FaheemMitha You can do everything most people need to do with a normal word processor, the things you cannot do are rarely needed by the average person
@Jesse_b It's not a matter of features, it's a difference in kind. A programmable system like TeX/LaTeX is fundamentally different in nature than a word processor.
@FaheemMitha Most (greater than 75% conservatively) people have no need to write mathematical functions. Simply being able to write text is all we require, bullet points, bold text, and headings are nice but not even necessary
That just happens to be a big market for TeX, because it's a relatively demanding application of typesetting, and for the most part the proprietary systems aren't up to the job. And the ones that are, are very expensive, and possibly use proprietary formats.
@Jesse_b No doubt. But I suspect that you aren't aware what TeX and friends can do.
@FaheemMitha I believe it's powerful but I just don't think it's worth it for most people. Unless you really have a need for all those features which I would wager most people don't, the difficulty seems to outweigh the benefits
Hell many users can't even wrap their head around microsoft office and I find that to be mostly intuitive
@Jesse_b It's not exactly about features. Would you tell people - use Perl because it has these features (for example)? Or those shell languages you folks love?
Yes using perl or shell has more capabilities than any off the shelf software you might be using but it also requires you learn those languages, if off the shelf software gets you where you need to be there is no incentive to learn a language
@FaheemMitha You mention this many times. I once tried to write a file in TeX. I failed. But I now trying to learn it . So contagious. But if you ask me what is grace, I would say .tex
@FaheemMitha Yeah and I'm sure knowing tex makes a lot of things better but I think most people wouldn't be pushed to learn it until they encounter a problem that can only be solved with tex
Knowing shell has been extremely beneficial for me but I didn't even know how beneficial it could be until after I started learning it. When there was software that didn't have a feature I desired I just lived with it and/or found a less than ideal workaround
One area in which TeX can be used is multilingual stuff. I don't even want to think how that would do that in a word processor. Also, anytime you want to programmatically generate a document.
@PrabhjotSingh Oh, you mean the chat room. And I see David is answering your questions.
Well, trying to, at any rate. I don't know how he finds the time/energy.
@PrabhjotSingh I've used LaTeX extensively in the past (writing linear algebra papers). I still think troff is superior for typesetting plain text... As with all things Unix, it's simple and produces output in the formats I care about.
@PrabhjotSingh yes, AUCTeX can have weird bugs, and the Debian maintainer is kind of useless. But it's the main thing people use.
Also, AUCTeX developers do hang out on TeX SE. At least one of them. I once asked a question on TeX SE, and he added a feature to AUCTeX in response. Which was helpful of him.
Sigh. Yes, I see it's still Salvetti.
I now use the AUCTeX from elpa, because I had problems with the Debian package.
@Jesse_b Good. When articles would be written, printed and read by machines only, then machinery would be automation. This Noble laureate could make entire mankind unemployed.
@PrabhjotSingh My argument is that automation has been eliminating jobs for thousands of years, it's nothing new and every generation thinks their version of automation will be the final straw
People are worried about self driving cars eliminating truck driving jobs, but trucks are an earlier form of automation that eliminated millions of jobs in their day
@Jesse_b Agreed, Industrial revolution destroyed billions of jobs in Asia and created much less newer jobs in Europe. People like Adam Smith support this fact.
But jobless growth has been phenomenal in West in recent years.
I think being an electrician, plumber, welder, mechanic, etc are quality jobs and would have dignity if we hadn't drilled college as a necessity into people's minds
welder may be a bad example as that job is being increasingly automated but the rest of them aren't going away anytime soon
You can use ex (which is a mode of the vi editor) to accomplish this.
You can use the :read command to insert the contents into the file. That command takes a filename, but you can use the /dev/stdin pseudo-device to read from standard input, which allows you to use a <<EOF marker.
The :read co...
sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
adobe-flashplugin is already the newest version (1:20190212.1-0ubuntu0.18.10.1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed ...
