Although it is often somewhat hidden, most text editors, except for the most basic ones, have a column mode (also known as block mode or visual mode) – to work on rectangular selections of text (including a width of zero). …
Using the package manager in Ubuntu to install Emacs will result in some older version (version 26.3 on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 (Focal Fossa)). One way to get the latest version, currently 27.2 for the stable version, is to compile from …
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It is possible to format Quora comments, e.g. with bold and italics, even though there isn’t any indication that it is possible. In the distant past the web interface had a formatting toolbar when adding or editing comments, but this …
One would expect Markdown to be supported on the Stack Overflow official blog, but it is not. It is a WordPress-based blog and there aren’t any comment plugins in use. Also, comments get lost if JavaScript is not allowed from certain …
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The source code for NoScript is in fact available: Repository “noscript” on GitHub. It is not that obvious. On the main page it says “…this free, open source add-on”, but without any kind of reference to where it is. You …
Very often RSS readers resist revealing the feed URLs once entered. That was the case for Firefox (the RSS reader was removed) and is also the case for Thunderbird (which has a decent feed reader). How-to It is very far …
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It is not immediately obvious, but comments on LBRY (AKA Odysee) videos can be styled just like YouTube videos can be styled (bold, italics, and links). Styling can make a comment easier to read and easier look to at at …
Just like in Inkscape, finding out how to do the simplest of things, drawing a straight line in Pinta (a drawing program equivalent to Paint on Windows), is unbelievably difficult. For instance, the help text for the tool says “Press …
UltraEdit for Linux is extremely buggy and corrupts the text documents. The corruption happens with using column mode, possibly worsened by using split windows (I mostly use vertically split). Column mode has always been buggy in UltraEdit, but in the …
If you use a search engine, you may find out the base rules for styling in YouTube comments, but they never tell you the whole story (for it to actually work in all cases). In fact, at first glance, it …