Good morning, Morten...
On Thursday 12 January 2006 01:09 am, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> You can use tab-completion to select the individual entries. If you have a
> list of e.g. these words:
>
> cloddish
> cold
> cold as charity
> cold-blooded
> coldhearted
>
> then you can select the word "cloddish" by typing "cl" <tab> and it will be
> completed. Selecting any of the others, you would type "cold" and then use
> <space> to cycle among the four possible completions.
Somehow this makes impeccable sense after a good night's sleep. ;-)
> > This is fantastic! Thank you!
>
> I am glad you could use it!
In case anyone wonders, what you and others have created is approximates a
workalike for Wordperfect 5.1 for MS-DOS hailing back a few years ago,
with only modest keystroke differences, of course. Back in the early 80's
it was my favorite editor, and I wrote two books using it, and in 1990
when I made the transition to Linux/Unix, I stumbled on Jed and have been
using it ever since for everything from writing to e-mail.
The moby-thesaurus is a much-finer tool than the original thesaurus in
Wordperfect, and in combination with Aspell gives the users a text editor
that stands heads above the GUI competition in both power, speed and
flexibility. I admit I am astounded that it runs with dictd without any
perceivable memory hits; in fact, it is barely noticeable when loaded atop
KDE or Gnome, both of which eat a considerable amount of memory.
Jed now is not only the distinguished text editor of record, it is a fine
multi-purpose and very powerful text editor for general writing purposes,
and offers functionality that none of the other Unix/Linux text editors
have ever or will offer. Thank you to everyone involved in deploying this
new feature!
Dave
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Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
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