[PLUG] Mounting Thumb Drive

Michael M debian at writemoore.net
Sat Mar 18 06:49:20 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 15:19 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> 
> I use gnome-teerminal, the default on Ubuntu. I know there are other terminals I could use, I just have no experience with them. Is there one that has like a database where I can save commands to pop in later? I mean more than the up and down arrows, because they don't hold commands after I shut down the computer. Something like a pop-up addressbook in a mail client is what I am thinking of. It would be more convenient than opening my text file in gedit.

I don't know if what you're requesting is exists, but what I do when I
want a quick view of some notes somewhere is just cat the file.  If you
keep a cheat sheet of commands in a text file in your home drive, it's a
lot faster to do cat ~/cheatsheet than to open gedit.  And if you want
to edit the file, it's faster to do it with vim (or nano, emacs,
whatever) from within the terminal than to open gedit.  Myself, I'm
finding fewer and fewer reasons to open gedit at all. :-)

The thing I like about gnome terminal, even though it's slower and
hungrier than xterm or aterm, is tabs.  Inevitably, I end up with three
or four tabs open in almost any instance.  It's like tabbed browsing ...
once you get used to it, it's hard to live without it.  I usually keep
any files I know I'm going to want to refer to and possibly edit open in
a tab.

-- 
Michael M. -- Portland, OR -- USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream." --S. Jackson




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