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Survival Notes [Was: Re: If not "newbie" then ????

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On 21.07.18 10:42, Richard Owlett wrote:
> P.S. I've saved ~6 years of useful posts from this group. I've been trying
> to figure out how to organize it in order to create a QWSBFA rather than a
> FAQ. QWSBFA=="Questions Which Should Be Frequently Asked" ;/

There are so many paths that people have trodden, and so many levels of
expertise, that survival notes are somewhat individualised, I figure.

How best to manage it probably depends on your vintage. Over three
decades I've accumulated ~ 420 pages of *nix user & sysadmin, embedded
programming, and text munging notes. With folding enabled, Vim presents
the single plain text file as one page - the table of contents. Headings
are capitalised, and a ':' follows keywords (also capitalised). A search
hit automatically unfolds to the fold level required. It's simple, easy
to manage, and fast - but most importantly, my fingers know Vim.

Stuff from technical lists which doesn't make it to the survival notes,
i.e. the few % of posts worth keeping, are sorted on first reading to
topic-specific mailboxes. Tonight there are:

$ ls -1 mail/* | wc -l
1266

and

$ ls -1 mail/cnc* | wc -l
454

are LinuxCNC-related. (Gene's favourite hobby.) Even with automated
search, it's a lot easier to look for one keyword in a hundred posts
from a single context, than try to make keyword combinations which will
fight off out of context hits in a hundred thousand posts.

> OWL ducks fer cover ;}

Hopefully owl ducks make good cover.

Erik

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If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-21 17:50 +0200
  Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-07-21 18:30 +0200
    Re: Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 00:20 +0200
      Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-07-22 03:50 +0200
        Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 17:10 +0200
          Re: If not "newbie" then ??? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-07-22 18:10 +0200
          Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-22 21:10 +0200
            Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-26 14:20 +0200
      Re: If not "newbie" then ???? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-07-22 15:10 +0200
        Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 17:30 +0200
    Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-22 03:40 +0200
  Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 00:10 +0200
    Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-22 04:10 +0200
    Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-22 10:10 +0200
      Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 17:20 +0200
        Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-24 11:40 +0200
      CherryTree - was [Re: If not "newbie" then ????] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-04 12:30 +0200
        Re: CherryTree - was [Re: If not "newbie" then ????] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-04 12:50 +0200
          Re: CherryTree - was [Re: If not "newbie" then ????] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-04 13:00 +0200
            Re: CherryTree - was [Re: If not "newbie" then ????] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-04 13:10 +0200
    Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-22 14:20 +0200
      Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-07-22 15:10 +0200
        Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 17:20 +0200
      Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-22 17:20 +0200
    Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-05 14:50 +0200
      Re: If not "newbie" then ???? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-08-06 05:30 +0200
        Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-06 15:30 +0200
          Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-06 16:50 +0200
            Searching and organizing emails (Re: If not "newbie" then ????) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-08-23 16:40 +0200
              Re: Searching and organizing emails (Re: If not "newbie" then ????) Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-08-23 18:40 +0200
  Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2018-07-22 12:30 +0200
    Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2018-07-22 12:40 +0200
      Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> - 2018-07-23 10:30 +0200
        Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-07-23 11:20 +0200
          Re: If not "newbie" then ???? cyaiplexys <cyaiplexys@sitesplace.net> - 2018-07-26 14:30 +0200
  Survival Notes [Was: Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-07-22 14:20 +0200
    Re: Survival Notes [Was: Re: If not "newbie" then ???? Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-07-22 14:50 +0200

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