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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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
if someone else has been able to answer to the asker's satisfaction, it is patently false that the question is unclear. That is actually a flawed premise. The question "what is the price of b...
I'm looking for a text processor that can color specific words, just like Microsoft Wordpad can (select a word -> click the color button -> choose a color), but for a GNU/Linux system. I hav...
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...
With Claws-mail, I want to be able to read all my mail even if offline, but the only way I know to download mail contents is by manually selecting it in the mail list. Additionally, navigating feel...
In the menu bar, select Colors. Enter Hue-Chroma and maximize lightness; or Enter Colorize and maximize lightness.
My opinion is: They do no harm and should be allowed. These are the reasons why I disagree with Olin Lathrop. The answers go out of date fast. They become useless, even damaging, to the long te...
I want the scrollbar to wrap to the pointer location when I click in an empty space (a.k.a. the trough or track) of it. What happens instead is that the scrollbar thumb just displaces the equivale...
You can define the LC_TIME environment variable. In ~/.profile if you start you session in a login shell or else ~/.bashrc, put export LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8 For example, % LC_TIME=ru_RU.UTF-8 da...
You just need to add "\e.":yank-last-arg to $HOME/.inputrc. From man 3 readline: yank-last-arg (M-., M-_) Insert the last argument to the previous command (the last word ...
