[Fwd: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10]

[Rajinder Yadav]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 01:58:58PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>> | From: Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
>>
>> | A few things I've noticed already;
>>
>> Thanks for the update.
>>
>> I run Ubuntu on some of my systems and I salvishly update when a new
>> version seems safe.  Thanks for being one of the testers!
>>
>> | - At the command line, when you pipe something through grep, it highlights the
>> | part of the string grep matched on. A small change, but soooo nice.
>>
>> How could it do that without violating normal UNIX abstractions??
> 
> Only do it if output is a tty?  ls --color=auto does the same thing.
> If output is a tty, colour it, and if it is a pipe or a file, then don't
> touch it.
> 

i already was getting colour ls listing in ubuntu 9.04, tired the grep 
with--color and i see the match highlighted in color, so it must be an alias on 9.10

if i type alias in my shell i get the following output:

yadav at K64x2:$ alias
alias ls='ls --color=auto'

i think i am going to add the alias --color to grep now =)


>> That's been possible, I think, with a kernel parameter (i.e.
>> vga=something in the kernel line in the grub config file
>> /boot/grub/menu.lst).  I don't do this so I'm not sure if this has
>> changed in the last decade.
>>
>> I do usually scrape off the kernel parameters I don't like, splash and
>> quiet.
> 
> Some X drivers have also at times been broken whenever the console
> was anything other than 80x25, although I don't know if that is the
> case anymore.
> 
>> | - Input method switching now is done by ctrl+space instead of shift+space.
>> | This is long over due! For example, if I was trying to write a SQL query, I
>> | have a habit of capitalizing command words. I'd often switch to kana input
>> | when I didn't want to. That won't happen any more.
>>
>> Yikes!  My fingers have been using CTRL-SPACE for NUL since 1982 (the
>> EMACS set-mark command).  They are not going to be happy.
> 
> Anytime someone tries to add a short cut, they break something.  I have
> seen people map alt+F# to desktop switching.  Rather annoying given alt+f2
> seems rather universally to be 'run program'.  When you are used to that,
> any other use is annoying.  Or mapping a function key to activate
> something, when that is a key lots of applications can use for their
> own needs.  Tricky business indeed.
> 
>> I'm kind of used to Pidgin for the very few times I use it.  LICQ used
>> to be fine.  Is Empathy better or just different?  This is some Gnome
>> issue, I guess.
> 
> I have been happy with pidgin.  I hadn't heard of Empathy before.
> 


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