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> 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…

> 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 …

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 sc…

> 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 t…

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.

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 a…

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.

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 c…

> 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 …