Re: x : keyboard not working

From	Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: x : keyboard not working
Date	2017-10-07 13:40 +0200
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On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 09:27:50AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Gene: I agree: locate is really cool.
> 
> Popping up your favorite editor window for each hit is left as an exercise
> for the reader ;-)

Man, some years back, after years of marketing and business meetings,
I was in a sub-sub-sub-sub-directory containing may be half a dozen
PDF files, but there was a subdirectory which had a couple I wanted
open too, so I mosies right along with my fabulous Unix commands and
does something like this:

 find ./ -name '*pdf' | xargs -n 1 -I "{}" eval evince "{}" \&

but, unfortunately, as in, very very unfortunately, I was so fast at
typing and didn't double check and I wrote the line like so:

 find / -name '*pdf' | xargs -n 1 -I "{}" eval evince "{}" \&

(Notice the (sadly, as in, very sadly) missing period before the
 slash!)

Welp, ye olde Pentium 90 with 128Megabytes (‼‼!! - no such thing as
ISO standard Mibibytes in those days, it was all completely diffident
you see), and dang! did that computer crawl, and slow down, and
basically came to a halt after a while as X window after X window
steadily, slowly, then really slowly, opened up, one after another
(now listen all you whippasnapperas, no laughing matter ok, we didn't
have kernel mode setting, process groups and CPU affinities - just
getting enough affinity between the graphics card and the mother
bored was challenge enough I tells ya!)

Well I had to reboot that computer with cackling hyenas in the
background saying things like “well you should know not to launch
an indefinite number of processes in the background”.

> Of course, if your editor is called Emacs, you can pull of that kind of
> stunt from within Emacs, with clickable links for each hit. But I
> disgress...
> 
> Cheers
> -- t
>

Thread

x : keyboard not working Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2017-10-06 17:00 +0200
  Re: x : keyboard not working Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-06 17:10 +0200
    Re: x : keyboard not working Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2017-10-06 18:00 +0200
      Re: x : keyboard not working Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-06 20:00 +0200
      Re: x : keyboard not working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-06 21:40 +0200
        Re: x : keyboard not working Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-06 22:40 +0200
          Re: x : keyboard not working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 00:40 +0200
            Re: x : keyboard not working Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-07 01:00 +0200
              Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 03:30 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-07 07:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-07 13:30 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-09 05:50 +0200
        Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-06 23:40 +0200
          Re: x : keyboard not working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 00:20 +0200
            Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-07 00:40 +0200
              Re: x : keyboard not working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 01:00 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 03:40 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-07 13:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-09 06:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Mattia Oss <mais.toast@gmail.com> - 2017-10-09 20:30 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-13 00:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-09 06:30 +0200
  Re: x : keyboard not working <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-06 17:10 +0200
    Re: x : keyboard not working Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2017-10-06 17:50 +0200
      Re: x : keyboard not working tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-10-06 18:30 +0200
        Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-06 20:40 +0200
          Re: x : keyboard not working deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-10-07 01:10 +0200
            Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 04:20 +0200
            Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-07 06:20 +0200
              Re: x : keyboard not working <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-07 09:30 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-07 11:10 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-07 11:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-07 12:00 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-07 13:40 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-07 16:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-08 04:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-08 05:40 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2017-10-08 06:00 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-10-08 07:10 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-13 00:50 +0200
      Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-13 05:00 +0200
  Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-06 18:50 +0200
  Re: x : keyboard not working Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-10-07 11:30 +0200

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