Re: [MiNT] MPFR progress.....

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 12:45 -0500, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > Keith Scroggins wrote:
> >> While on the topic of RPMs, are there any packages people want to see 
> >> updated currently living in Sparemint?
> >
> > I noticed a problem with "less" :
> >
> > # When input comes from stdin, it works
> > cat /etc/passwd |less
> >
> > # When input comes from a file, it displays nothing
> > less /etc/paswd
> >
> > Maybe a recompilation and/or new version could fix the problem ?
> >
> nano, when you hit ctrl-w it for some reason keeps your prior search in 
> both the prior search brackets as well as the search text.  The general 
> idea is that if you hit ctrl-W and type in "stuff", it will search for 
> stuff and if you hit ctrl-W it will display stuff again in brackets, and 
> you could simply type something else to change the search.  In our case 
> we have to back up over the search text and then rewrite it. 

Doesn't happen here on my nano version. It works as you say it should.

> Also I have all kinds of terminal issues to work out, both over ssh as 
> well as in plain tos after mint boots but before I go into an aes.  
> Seems like in there up, down left or right all tab to the next word.  
> There's really a lot of little things like that that I've ignored that 
> should probably be fixed at some point.

The only problem I have is when I type too fast on the actual console of
the Atari keyboard and it starts repeating the same last key press and
won't stop. I try to always use ssh.

Alan.