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Re: The Command-Line Office

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The author seems to be advocating text mode, not strictly command-line. Editing files with sed is command-line; editing them with vi or emacs or nano is not.

Maybe terminal is a better phrase I should of used than command-line, or maybe non-X or non-Windowing environment

Text-mode is the term I use; I've heard "TUI" used as well. Non-windowing isn't a good name since I think this is clearly windowed: http://superuser.com/a/323614

Re: The Command-Line Office

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post #4

I was totally unaware of sc. My spreadsheeting life just got immeasurably better.

it was very famous 20 years ago when X configuration required complex frequency calculus.

Fun fact: The first time I tried ubuntu, in order to get my monitor working at its highest resolution I had to add a modeline to my xorg.conf

I had been previously using gentoo, where I selected the resolution from a gui. The difference was seems to be ubuntu adopting nouveau a bit earlier than they should have.

Re: The Command-Line Office

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Roaring Penguin's remind is a great piece of software, it's been a standard for me since around 2000. Don't forget their include files for stuff like holidays and seasons.

If you haven't used wyrd, go check it out. You'll thank me later.

http://pessimization.com/software/wyrd/

Re: The Command-Line Office

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post #31
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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 ou…

how about

    set my_pass="`pass email/this@email.org`"
[edit] Looks like this is a muttrc line not a sh line. Sadly I don't think muttrc supports the far superior $() expansion..

Re: The Command-Line Office

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post #29

Shameless plug for more terminal-based slide/presentation software: now with fading, 256 colour transitions and experimental PDF export! http://github.com/jclulow/vtmc

Here's another: deck, a Go package for presentations

http://github.com/ajstarks/deck https://speakerdeck.com/ajstarks/deck-a-go-package-for-prese...

Re: The Command-Line Office

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post #53

I've finally hit upon an electronic calendar scenario I am happy enough with to try for a few months. I use calcurse, with the main directory for daily, and subdirectories for Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, and Yearly. I have aliases defined to reach these subdirectories because I am lazy: # calcurse stuff export Week='-D .calcurse/Weekly' export Month='-D .calcurse/Monthly' export Quarter='-D .calcurse/Quarterly' expor…

Just for future record, the script I actually use has two returns at the end of the send-keys lines

        tmux send-keys -t cal:0 'calcurse' ^M  ^M
	tmux send-keys -t cal:1 'calcurse $Week' ^M ^M
	tmux send-keys -t cal:2 'calcurse $Month' Enter Enter

Re: The Command-Line Office

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post #64
post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ou…

how about set my_pass="`pass email/this@email.org`" [edit] Looks like this is a muttrc line not a sh line. Sadly I don't think muttrc supports the far superior $() expansion..

I tried this and it does not work. And yes, mutt does not support $() escaping.
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