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Sometimes I accidentally enter a command with a typo in Vim, e.g. :e!fil instead of :e!file. As a consequence, the incorrect command clutters the history until it is evicted from the binary .vi...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

In most recent Firefox versions I find it hard to distinguish the current tab at a glance, especially if the screen is set at low brightness. That is because the colors used for the current and oth...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

Firefox Enter about:config in the address bar. Type "decodeurl" in the search field. Set browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy to true. From the documentation: browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy ...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

Although .viminfo is technically a binary file, some parts of it are actually plain text. From :help viminfo-read-write, The viminfo file itself can be edited by hand too, although we suggest yo...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

Option 1: Choose a different theme Just go to Settings > Extensions and Themes (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+A) and choose a suitable theme. Option 2: Use CSS to set the exact tab color Firefox UI de...

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If you hover over screen shots, you can clearly see the screen shot links to Microsoft. Since the question is now deleted, I cannot verify that claim, but assuming it is true: Do you see how t...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

I think Power Users sounds better, but for an objective argument, and correct me if I'm wrong: It's easier to change a couple of image files than all textual occurrences of Power Users (besides th...

posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

You have already given the answer, and I have just found that it is documented under the Search Syntax section: Use \ to go to directly to the first search result. For example, \futurama.

posted 4y ago by Quasímodo‭

Thanks to Samcarter for suggesting Abiword! It does quite more than just coloring text, but it's much lighter than Libreoffice (I only had to install two dependencies). Files can be saved in vari...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

According to this support answer to "Home page is black", Enter about:config in the address bar. Edit the value of "layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override" to 0 to use a dark b...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

You could use Maxima. Some packages offer a GUI (Xmaxima or Wxmaxima, if I'm not mistaken), but you can use it in the terminal. Below, an interactive terminal Maxima session in which I define and ...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

From the FAQ: No, unfortunately it's not possible. Allowing this would require embedding terminal multiplexer into Vifm, which is kinda silly because it is a file manager. The compromise is to r...

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Enter about:config in the address bar. Search for ui.textHighlightBackground and change its color value — you can use the #RRGGBB format or generic names such as "green". Note this al...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

It has been reported that, if on a dark theme in KDE, Firefox automatically renders some websites that support it (e.g. Duckduckgo does, but Codidact doesn't) in dark mode. How can I better contro...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

Assuming innermost directories are not empty, in any POSIX compliant system, find . -type d -links 2 -exec cp -r {} . \; In a GNU Linux system, a more performant alternative is find . -type d ...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by mcp‭