Hi There - I wanted to ask a question that I've asked previously, but adding a gif to illustrate what I'm trying to say.

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d50caca3-d2c3-4d9e-b8f4-3e30ce828017.webm

Is there a plugin that could accomplish this?

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Hi there - I’m trying to dive into neovim and I can’t figure out how to do a certain thing in visual block mode…

Is there a way to extend a cursor/block column down from a long line through a series of shorter lines such that the short lines extend to meet the cursor (thus letting you enter text all in a column)? All I can seem to get it to do is have the cursor go to the end of each line, leaving a set of entry points staggered over a different column positions.

I think the feature I want is called Virtual Space, but I’m not sure. I am sure, however, that I use this feature extensively in Ultra Edit and Notepad++ (and mssql mgmt studio and visual studio but not vscode!)

Is there an add on? A plugin? (bonus points if the entry points remain highlighted once going into insert mode after the block is selected?) I’ve seen suggestions to try using the ‘virtualedit’ setting, but unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to solve the issue. It only adds text to lines that are already of length greater or equal to the column position of the block selection. Unless I’m missing something.

(Adding a link to a vscode issue begging for the same feature. It might help illustrate the concept. - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 )

Would be grateful for help here. (bonus points is there’s a way to keep the cursor highlighted after the shift to insert mode…)

Hi there - I'm trying to dive into neovim and I can't figure out how to do a certain thing in visual block mode...

Is there a way to extend a cursor/block column down from a long line through a series of shorter lines such that the short lines extend to meet the cursor (thus letting you enter text all in a column)? All I can seem to get it to do is have the cursor go to the end of each line, leaving a set of entry points staggered over a different column positions.

I think the feature I want is called Virtual Space, but I'm not sure. I am sure, however, that I use this feature extensively in Ultra Edit and Notepad++ (and mssql mgmt studio and visual studio but not vscode!)

Is there an add on? A plugin? (bonus points if the entry points remain highlighted once going into insert mode after the block is selected?) I've seen suggestions to try using the 'virtualedit' setting, but unfortunately, this doesn't seem to solve the issue. It only adds text to lines that are already of length greater or equal to the column position of the block selection. Unless I'm missing something.

(Adding a link to a vscode issue begging for the same feature. It might help illustrate the concept. - https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/13960 )

Would be grateful for help here. (bonus points is there's a way to keep the cursor highlighted after the shift to insert mode...)

Hi There - I'm starting to make use of distrobox, but I have a question about creating custom home directories.

In my ~/.config/distrobox/distrobox.conf file, I've added a line ->

container_user_custom_home="$HOME/dbx"

This ensures that all new containers, by default, have their homes set to ~/dbx .

This is good, however, I'm looking for a way to default new container homes to ~/dbx/<>. Is there a way to do this? I've tried setting the line in distrobox.conf to

container_user_custom_home="$HOME/dbx/$DBX_CONTAINER_NAME" but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

(Basically, I want to err on the side of a bit of isolation between containers by default so that I can more easily track what each is doing separately.

Thanks!

Hi there - I'm trying to make use of flatpaks, but keeping them isolated from my host (as I need to experiment with a bunch of settings and I don't want to bork my host environment. Again.)

Has anyone had actual success making this work? I've only been able to get anything to install by sudo-ing, but even then, I cannot get things to run. It'll fail with file not found (but which file? verbose mode doesn't help) or fail to connect to the system bus.

I've seen some posts about unmounting /var/lib/flatpak on initialization but I've had no luck there. (I'm on Fedora 39, which, to be honest, I'm rather enjoying.)

Is this a technique that anyone has had luck with? Worth pursuing?

FWIW, my big goal is to run bottles and I've had far more luck with bottles (which strongly recommends flatpak) than with winehq.

...terrible ceremony. But great reception!

Is there a way to create a post in sync for lemmy? I see a 'submit' button, but it just says 'coming soon'.

Im sure I'm missing something obvious.

(posting this from Liftoff...)

Is there a way to 'unhide' a post that was hidden by mistake?

I accidentally swiped a post too far in the new Sync app and there it was - gone.

Just not sure if there's an obvious way to unhide.

Hi there - large numbers are fun and I was learning about the Busy Beaver function which (theoretically) produces unfathomably large numbers by finding the maximum number of 1s written on a blank Turing machine tape out of the set of all n-state Turing machines that halt.

I was wondering if a conceptually more obvious, but larger variation could count the maximum number of steps taken before halting out of all n-state Turing machines that halt?

Would these numbesr not grow faster than the traditional Busy Beaver, since the number of steps will always be greater (or equal?) to the number of 1s written?

Obviously, the halting problem shows that we can't know beforehand if the machines will actually halt, but that issue is common to both versions.

Just curious if there is a reason the problem is not considered this way?

Any googologists out there with insights?

Hi there - apologies is this is the wrong place to ask, but does anyone have any details wrt this construction and it's expected complicate? I found some old references to it buried in the Metrolinx site but none of the links worked and there was no detail on completion date.

Since it's so clearly dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians I thought it would be worth having an idea as to when things will open up again.

Quick question - In Mastodon, there is an option to set a "Timed Mute" on a user. Is there an equivalent in Lemmy?

If, for example, I am amused by a community generally but would like to suppress it for a while (maybe I've seen enough old memes or something?) to let a current fad pass but I don't want to block forever (and then forget about it), a timed mute could be just the ticket.

Thoughts. It'd be a definite nice-to-have feature.

(note - in error, I asked this question in "asklemmy" which was not the place to ask lemmy)

Please ignore - in error, I have asked lemmy where I should not have. (can't figure out how to delete the post)

Quick question - In Mastodon, there is an option to set a "Timed Mute" on a user. Is there an equivalent in Lemmy?

If, for example, I am amused by a community generally but would like to suppress it for a while (maybe I've seen enough old memes or something?) to let a current fad pass but I don't want to block forever (and then forget about it), a timed mute could be just the ticket.

Thoughts. It'd be a definite nice-to-have feature.

Pour one out for BaconReader. Gonna miss it. I find the official app pretty much unusable in comparison. I expect my redditing will drop to near zero in future. Sigh. Sure hope lemmy takes off...