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The first step is knowing how to select non-adjacent text. Apply a unique style to the text in interest that appears nowhere else in the doc (e.g., bold, underline, and italicize it). Right-cli...
I'd like to draw a rectangle on the screen and get the dimensions in pixels of that rectangle. A bit like a ruler in order to measure the distance on screen. I'm using Sway version 1.8 on Arch Lin...
While using Outlook on the web, when I sort mail by sender, my Inbox shows a heading row containing just the sender name in bold, with any emails from that sender below. How do I turn off those he...
On my Lenovo Legion, every single time I boot up Windows 10, I get confronted by an Xbox app popping up and telling me that I have a free game pass or something and to log in to claim it. Every tim...
If you know the normal mode key sequence to achieve the desired result, you can always feed it to the ex-mode normal command. Step 3 translates to :norm ggVGp See the documentation in :help :n...
Question Is there a way in grafx2 to make the background transparent and trim to content? This could be done during save. My process now when making images for documents is: Make image in gra...
I don't know if or if not this is possible from within grafx2, but your manual workflow can be simplified dramatically by using image magick. The following command will do all your steps at once an...
All available "styles" are listed in :help highlight-groups. You will find that hl-Terminal is one of them. As an example, to make the Vim terminal background dark blue, use :hi Terminal ctermbg...
From the search results page there is a link to the help page for search. This explains how to search for any word, only an exact phrase match, or all words in any order: plain search If you ...
Firefox allows to set the default zoom level in its preferences. Go to Preferences->General->Zoom->Default zoom to set it according to taste
I'm far from an expert GIT user. I'm usually the only one working in a repository at a time, and know how to do the basics like committing snapshots. I still have to look up how to create and mer...
I am subscribed to several Google Groups (email lists). I want to change the address where I receive that email, preferably without having to unsubscribe and resubscribe for each list. (Some list...
With overclocking, it's probably just the standard caveats: It might damage your hardware (although this seems unlikely for merely changing memory speeds) Your software might become unstable (B...
Where do I go to change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox? I've been in the settings section and used their setting search, both for "keyb" and for "shortc" and nothing likely-looking comes up. Is the...
Is it possible to record both audio in and out with Audacity? I am imagining that after configuring it somehow, I would end up with two concurrent audio tracks: One for what the microphone heard, ...
The QR code for Time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) just contains some secret info[1] to seed the TOTP app.[2] You can dump it into another implementation of TOTP. The seed and the current time wi...
When I type HTML in VS Code, it adds linebreaks to the content of the tag when it is over a certain length. How can I disable this? I tried setting html.format.wrapAttributes to preserve and html....
When I set a file's language as "INI" in VS Code, and use the "comment" command, it uses ; as the comment character. Is there a way to make it use # instead?
Aside from what others have said, the critical assumption behind this policy is that the recipient's email system will only flag emails with attachments as spam, and is guaranteed to let through an...
The OMEMO encryption ecosystem for XMPP (Jabber) is split into distinct, incompatible versions. Unfortunately there are different versions of OMEMO encryption existing, that are incompatible to ...
This will depend on your bibliography style: for {InstructAny2Pix} can lead to incorrect results for styles with all caps titles {I}nstruct{A}ny2{P}ix can result in sub-optimal kerning, s...
My new company has this IT policy for emailing attachments. Does it make sense? The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) claims that sending attachments in a follow-up email is safer than sending a sing...
In addition to what Michael said (+1), this would be quite annoying to recipients. It would be a hiccup in my workflow, and I'd think less of the sender. Their inability to fix their email system...
Google is notorious for being very picky, having significant false positives, and not caring. Most likely they aren't discarding these mail messages, but refusing to accept them in the first place...
There are many vector search libraries and engines for use in machine learning, apis, databases, and programs. https://github.com/currentslab/awesome-vector-search has a list of some of them. For ...
