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Suppose that I’m writing some text and the caret is in the middle of a word. I would like to be able to select that word without using my mouse. (Using the mouse, simply double-click on the word.) I have found the following, but it’s kind of clunky: Ctrl + ←: to go to the…
Is it possible to select an HTML tag’s content in Vim? For example: <p>I am a silly butterfly</p> I would like to select “I am a silly butterfly”. I know that you can use vi” to select text inside quotes, brackets, etc. The problem here is that the text inside the HTML tags is not…
I know I can select all cells in a particular column by clicking on column header descriptor (ie. A or AB). But is it possible to then exclude a few cells out of it, like my data table headings? Example I would like to select data cells of a particular column to set Data Validation…
Is it possible to… Step up local ZSH shell history (actions only happened in that prompt) Step up global ZSH history (shared history is on) – default what happens when you press UP arrow when shared history is on … separately. For example one might bind CTRL+up for global history, normal up for local history….
Have several copies of Acrobat Professional that were purchased previously, installed and activated. However there is no documentation of the serial numbers, the Adobe online account ID or any details for these. Need to move the licenses to upgraded Windows 7 PCs (current ones are on Windows XP that are about to be decommissioned). Requirement…
I have a job that I would like to “daemonize” on Unix: I want it to come up when the computer boots, and I want it to restart if it goes down. A simple way to do this is to setup a cronjob that runs every 10 or 20 minutes. The cronjob should restart the…
I have a non standard 1280×800 screen which isn’t detected correctly by my linux system The screen is a 1280×800 native, 10.1 inch tablet display with an external controller board. I’ve got it connected to a brix with a N2807 Celeron via HDMI. I run Fedora 20 KDE spin with official intel i915 drivers. The…
In MS Excel, is it possible to set the content language of cells e.g. per column? The purpose would be, among other things, to make proper spelling checks when the content is multilingual (e.g., a dictionary), like we can do in MS Word. Solution: Here’s a quick-and-dirty macro that you can hopefully adapt to your…
Is there a program available for Vista, that allows me to set up a folder as an SFTP connection to a remote server? The use case is to have a folder on my desktop, where I can drag/drop/edit files and have my remote location be updated automatically. I’ve googled this to no avail. Thanks! Solution:…
I have an 3.5G USB Modem that I want to share its internet connection in Linux. I tried already, but only got having no internet on my own PC, still without sharing it. It’s really hard to find some documentation about this and the producer doesn’t give support for Linux 🙁 My modem is from…
