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Gems from the man page trenches (2016)

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62 points·by LEARAX·4 years ago·25 comments

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LEARAX
·last year·discuss
I would love to know more details about your CI setup. I'm running all of my self-hosted services as Quadlets (which I generally really love!) and CI (using Gitea) was/is a huge pain point.
LEARAX
·4 years ago·discuss
Can I ask when you had this exchange, which email you contacted (I've tried emailing both the support address and the individual addresses) and which email provider you use?
LEARAX
·4 years ago·discuss
My DM42 broke in under 2 weeks and Swissmicros support was completely unreachable. I would strongly recommend getting a used older HP calculator instead.
LEARAX
·4 years ago·discuss
This was not my experience with TeXmacs. I tried it recently after using LaTeX for all of my papers, and while it is nice, it is not replacing LaTeX for me.

Table output in particular was much lower quality than LaTeX with booktabs. I think I had to manually resize columns, which was tedious, and I never had to do that with LaTeX. There were a lot of similar situations I found myself in, where I wound up needing to fight TeXmacs quite a bit to get it to output what I wanted.

I prefer my LaTeX workflow where I can edit markup in Emacs, and have a preview almost instantly generated next to my editor by a filesystem watcher & makefile. TeXmacs necessitates using its own interface (which lacks my vim keybindings and Emacs customizations) and I could not find many resources on editing TeXmacs documents in external programs.

I did appreciate that the general typesetting in TeXmacs was high quality, and the ability to type TeX macros and get e.g. enumerated lists quickly was very nice. But overall, I prefer LaTeX.
LEARAX
·4 years ago·discuss
I believe the notification did not get sent out for the first PR until a comment was posted on it (the PR was opened 2 days ago).

I think the top commenter on this thread (Rob) may not realize his comment is the one that is triggering the first wave of notifications, based on his choice of sound effect.