Tilde – text editor

Tilde is a nice, curses based text editor. It is useful for if you are at the console or terminal in Linux and want a menu driven editor.

While other tools are more command driven (nano, emacs, vi, vim and joe to name a few). Tilde is being mentioned for those of you who may find it useful

As you would expect with a modern editor, tilde has support for syntax highlighting.

Which is really useful for programming or editing website code for example.

REFERENCES

• Tilde man page
• Free software foundation
  • GNU
• Free Software Foundation of India
• Free Software Foundation of Latin America
• Free Software Foundation Europe

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#Linux,#TextEditor,#Editor,#Text, #Tilde,#Programming,#SyntaxHighlighting,#console, #terminal

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Translate Science

Another interesting project that I found on Mastodon. This is translating academic and science texts to different languages.

I have replied to their Mastodon post and also mentioned the Africa Wiki project / contest. As the two projects could complement each other if there are articles on Wikipedia about African Scientists and contributors to science. Ensure these articles on Wikipedia are also translated. But also perhaps translate associated Science texts too.

Of course it is all down to the number of people who have the skills are willing to share these skills.

From a personal viewpoint, I really feel employers MUST recognise these contributions. They are valuable to the projects but also help people develop important skills such as remote collaboration.

REFERENCES

• Translate Science
• Mastodon

TAGS

#Science,#Academic,#Text,#Papers,#Translation

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Sed

In my first ansi weather post I was looking at using sed to strip colour codes from the program output. It turns out and covered in the second post that all that is needed is the -a false argument to the program.

Nevertheless, sed is still worth learning. To this end, the following resources may be useful.

Sed video tutorial

If you save this in to a text file you can follow along with the video. It is similar to the text from the video.

10 Tiny Toes
this is That
One two Three
tree twice

REFERENCES

• Filmsbykris
• sed manual
• Free Software Foundation

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#gnu,#sed,#text,#manipulation

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CryptPad 4

A look at some of the features of the Rich Text Editor that comes with the recently released, version 4 of CryptPad.

This is a really nice package, and service, Cryptpad also comes as part of Disroot, which is also linked below. The best feature of course is the privacy.

REFERENCES

• CryptPad
• Disroot
• Cryptpad Mastodon
• Disroot Mastodon
• Free Software Foundation

TAGS

#YearOfTheFediverse,#CryptPad,#RichText,#Editor,#Text, Cloud,#Privacy

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Mastodon toot client

Tip of the day

if using the toot command line client, you can toot the contents of a file.

Lets say 'text.txt' contains the following

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam

If you login to toot, then type

toot post < text.txt then the contents of that file will be posted to Mastodon.

Please feel free to follow me on Mastodon here

#mastodon,#toot,#tips,#hints,#commandline,#cli,#client, #text,

Liberoffice 7 Impress – Text formatting tool bar

By default libreoffice 7 impress does not display tools for text formatting on the toolbar.

To fix this, you need to

Click View —> Tool bars —> Text Formatting

And the tool will be displayed

Video below illustrates process

#libreoffice7,#impress,#display,#text,#formatting,toolbar, #help,#support.

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LibreOffice Learning Resources

As digital skills are an essential part of everyday life. I have created, a new blog, to host information to help people out tasks using LibreOffice.

So far this is blog has covered just the Writer component. This may be extended later, as I have some videos for the Calc Spreadsheet.

The new blog can be found here.

• Videos, hosted on my Peer tube.
• Images, hosted on Salsa.debian
• Blog, hosted on personaljournal.ca/

• Blog. powered by https://write.as/

• TDF Blog post

#Digital,#Skills,#LibreOffice,#Writer,#Basic,#Tutorial, #Text,Video,#MixedMedia,#Learning,#Development

CEEFAX on the Pi

CEEFAX was a text based TV information service provided by the BBC back in the 80 to 90's. It may have started earlier, not sure.

Fast forward to 2020 and we have working version on the Raspberry Pi computer.

You can read more here.

I am in the process of testing this out. My Raspberry Pi is running Raspbian 9.4 so I am in the process of updating this. It seems the latest update to Raspbian is 9.9.

This may be a long process, so I will have to post an update to this tomorrow. But in the meantime you can read up more.

If I get it working, I will see if I can bring it to the next South Devon Tech Jam on the 14th March. It may be something to have along side the Retro Computing area we are going to be setting up.

• RaspberryPi
• South Devon Tech Jam

#bbc, #tv, #text, #information, #service, #raspberrypi, #computer, #southdevontechjam,#sdtj, #march

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