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Re: The Command-Line Office

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Post by 616c »

zx2c4 wrote: post #5

The author of this article uses pass [1] for password management. I'm the author of pass, if anyone here has any questions. [1] http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

I eventually want to make a GUI equivalent as I learn to program, and had some other ideas that you have inspired as I try to get back to programming.

THANK YOU! I love your tool and it is one of my favorite tools. I check your git for other cool stuff as I stumbled upon your stuff many times.

Question: would you want to add a parameter to escape non-aplhanumeric characters? It took me a while of playing to figure out how to get mutt to handle my very complex IMAP passwords.

For anyone who cares, I do it with sed.

set my_pass=`pass email/this@email.org | sed 's/[[:punct:]]/\\&/g'`

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Re: The Command-Line Office

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Post by MichaelGG »

doorhammer wrote: post #20
omaranto wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using a cli for everything is an extreme proposition! You'll probably get tired of it quickly and choose to add some fullscreen text mode programs to the mix, like vim or emacs. For a "full featured" console environment, add some programs that use the frame buffer to display images, you can probably setup your netbook to be pretty serviceable without installing a windowing system at all.

Yeah; I use vim as my editor of choice (outside of my job which is actually .net, heh). I have other computers I use a lot, and I'd never 100% give up on gui's. Mostly I'd be setting up an environment that boots quickly, reduces background processes, and gives me a nice retro place to code in when I'm tooling with haskell or c. I also like having an environment that I've fully optimized for keyboard only. The excel p…

>Yeah; I use vim as my editor of choice (outside of my job which is actually .net, heh).

In case you haven't seen it: ViEmu is a great addon for Visual Studio.

Re: The Command-Line Office

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Post by johnchristopher »

zx2c4 wrote: post #5

The author of this article uses pass [1] for password management. I'm the author of pass, if anyone here has any questions. [1] http://www.zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

> The author of this article uses pass [1] for password management. I'm the author of pass, if anyone here has any questions.

Ah! I installed pass a few days ago! I was wondering why you decided to use gpg to encrypt instead of mcrypt (which would be "easier" to set up for the casual end-user since he'd only need a password and not a keys) ?

I also wished you could post your cgit.conf because I remember having troubles achieving something with mine but now I can't remember what. Well.

Also, are you involved with http://git.zx2c4.com/pulseaudio-raop2/ ? If so: any chances of progress being made in the near future ?

Re: The Command-Line Office

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Post by gaius »

omaranto wrote: post #15
doorhammer wrote: post #8

This is convenient timing for me. I was just thinking about dual booting to a stripped down cli only arch install on my netbook for fun. I hadn't even thought about having some basic spreadsheet functionality. Should be interesting to mess around with. Not an office app, but I think tmux is probably my favorite all around need-to-have, for when I'm working cli only. edit: this also makes me think it wouldn't be too h…

Using a cli for everything is an extreme proposition! You'll probably get tired of it quickly and choose to add some fullscreen text mode programs to the mix, like vim or emacs. For a "full featured" console environment, add some programs that use the frame buffer to display images, you can probably setup your netbook to be pretty serviceable without installing a windowing system at all.

I tend to consider (n)curses be command-line. In fact I suspect that most people would consider "command line" to be more akin to a VT100 than a teletype.

Re: The Command-Line Office

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Post by gaius »

russellallen wrote: post #11

I'm a big command line fan, but vi/emac/nano are not word processors. They're text editors. You might be able to get close if you are using them to edit Markdown and running it through Pandoc (especially if you add in a non-commandline PDF viewer). But still. WordPerfect 5.1 - now that was a curses/command line word processor :) I don't know of a modern equivalent though.

Wordstar before then. It's a real shame that it is still legally encumbered, I'd love to use it on a modern system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordstar

I actually found the other day I have a ROM for Wordwise+, the first word processor I ever used, for the BBC Micro. I might see if I can get away with doing some "real work" in it :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordwise

Re: The Command-Line Office

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Post by gaius »

brudgers wrote: post #24
dfc wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The unstated distinction you are making is between a program a novice can use for word processing and a program that requires some level of experience. I will grant that ed/edlin/nano are not word processors. But excluding emacs from the category is just as absurd as including ed. Have you used emacs in the past decade? Some of your requirements are laughable. Softwrapping? visual-line-mode has been baked in since 23…

WordPerfect was great because it was essentially a text editor with a markup language. When formatting wasn't coming out quite right it could be debugged easily with by pressing the key to "reveal codes". The other thing that made WordPerfect great was their technical support. Free and unlimited over the phone...and they new what they were talking about and if it was a genuine bug, they would have an engineer call yo…

You need a ruthless discipline to use Word in anger, do everything through styles and nothing "manually" otherwise it all goes to hell. Unfortunately Word makes it all too easy to do.

Re: The Command-Line Office

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Post by timonv »

Hah. Great article!

Also:

* https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup for decentralised and lightning fast email. Written in Ruby, very hackable.

* http://orgmode.org/ Although I'm a vim user, I use orgmode for: All my todos, clocking hours for clients, spreadsheets for my training, research notes, calendar, anything else that needs organising and planning.

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