Why EDT? The short answer is “Because I wanted it.” The slightly longer answer is “I needed something of value to do while kicking the tires on CopperSpice. Adding themes and EDT keypad support to Diamond not only fit the bill but would benefit the world at large for as long as it could still compile.” The much longer answer is the rest of this post. I started out on the PDP 11/70 running RSTS/E. … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 14Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 13
Why Themes? From time to time people ask that question. Why did I want to add themes to the Diamond text editor? There are many reasons. Some of the reasons I identified in an answer I gave on Quora. Since most of you don’t read Quora I will regurgitate a bit of it here. For eons I simply used whatever color scheme was default. I came up via terminals and you could have any color … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 13Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt 12
Let’s be honest. If you are a long time Ubuntu/Mint/YABU user you want a Debian package that fully installs. When it is a text editor you want to be able to select it as the default editor for various source files. You want to be able to add it to the “favorites” list so you can use it all of the time. Well, you can do pretty much all of that with the Debains I’ve … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt 12Read more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 11
If you have been following the saga you have a pretty good idea of the new features added to Diamond. These have not been turned over to the parent project and are not rolled into the code base! The exist only in my branch of my fork of Diamond. Next on my list of tasks was to build a Debian package for the editor. If you ever want some Debian based distro or Debian itself … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 11Read more
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A Ubuntu Compatible AC Wifi Card
In the land of Ubuntu and Linux in general one thing that has really sucked is Wifi support. Oh, it has it, just generally lags 2-8 years behind when it comes to chipset support. I remember first installing Ubuntu on my Acer Inspire One. Thank God it had a cable connection port to backup the built in Wifi because it was years before that chipset got support. Recently I re-arranged a few things in that … A Ubuntu Compatible AC Wifi CardRead more