Tabs vs. Spaces: The War Is Over, by @xn--gckvb8fzb.com:

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/tabs-vs-spaces-the-war-is-over/

chown user.user

was the syntax until until I recently noticed that it was changed to

chown user:user

I have to check out why that occurred. I also have to check if they only changed it in the Linux version of the command or if the change was also propagated to the BSD flavors of operating systems

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

Yamlfmt: An extensible command line tool or library to format YAML files

https://github.com/google/yamlfmt

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? Just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

Gfx / screencap on Markdown 4 toot I shall link in a bit

https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#unordered-lists

Decorative Text Within HTML, by @Edent:

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/05/decorative-text-within-html/

TIL: If you are using a language server capable of autoformatting, formatting your whole file in Neovim is as easy as calling vim.lsp.buf.format().

And since LSP formatters use edit commands instead of replacing your whole file, Neovim can keep track of the cursor position, marks, and all kinds of other stuff that wasn't possible with just `:%!formatter`.

I've replaced my custom tiny autoformatting plugin with this and I don't regret it.

https://codeberg.org/scy/dotfiles/commit/e195eb85e5b7a0a94d61f91b1e47107f117af748

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

I've just finished reading this blog post regarding the markdown Syntax by RL Dane

He is also given a brief history of the Computing Hardware and software that he has used ever since he was a little Padawan.

The blog post is just a few minutes to read and you shall learn something good from it.

TLDR is; use {smackdown} markdown for everything you write that needs formatting and be truly platform independent in your formatted text creation.

When you truly understand what he means, it is literal total freedom with formatted text and you don't even need to learn tex or LaTeX, since you will not be writing a book.

When you do that you will have to read my posts regarding tex and LaTeX, and those are blog posts I haven't released.

For me markdown has been important, ever since I was working on waffle bulletin boards many many decades ago

*Bold* _underline_ /italic/ was the syntax that we used back then.

Our waffle bulletin board had a special text formatting routine which Made these codes look like they were actually bold underline and italic when we were viewing those emails.

On the #AmIRC channel on Dalnet we also had a formatting routines for our clients, mine was AmIRC that converted these codes in a similar fashion.

So in true Essence markdown has been with us for a very very long time; we just didn't call it markdown then but we made sure that our text formatting had nothing to do with the computer platform we happen to be typing on.

https://rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown.html

#Markdown #formatting #programming #Tex #LaTeX #HTML

@rl_dane

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

https://www.otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#Development #Cheatsheets
Human-readable JavaScript date formatting · A neatly compiled set of practical examples https://ilo.im/162pyi

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#Programming #Coding #Formatting #Snippets #Date #Time #JavaScript #WebDev #Frontend

I just need 1-2 bigger art commissions to survive March (totalling to 150-200€). If you know anyone who needs art, like a fantasy map, book cover, new profile picture, or literally anything - send them my way, please! <3

Contact: hiisikoloart@gmail.com

Alternatively you can drop me a ko-fi brain cell and help me make my debt payments. (:

https://ko-fi.com/hiisikolo_art

Can anyone recommend a way to automatically format the HTML in a Rails view template that uses ERB?

* prettier can format HTML, but messes up the contents of the ERB tags
* erb_lint can format the contents of the ERB tags and does _some_ limited formatting of the surrounding HTML
* there are a bunch of prettier extension node packages that claim to handle ERB, but as is all too often the case they all seem to be dead

Any advice would be much appreciated!

#python #formatting
https://pyformat.info/

I am looking for a #text #formatting #tool, #Office #Plugin or magical website that will #convert a fairly normal text format, to a more usable format.

I have old #Books of 72 character wrapped lines, with a newline after each. Paragraphs are single blank lines.

Words may be hyphenated to wrap nicely.

Office would want each block-line -> one single line, with a paragraph break in between.

It doesn't seem hard and it seems common enough problem!

Struggling with text formatting in Linux? You're not alone! My new article breaks down the essentials for beginners.

Read more at https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2025-01-24/ and let’s discuss!

Struggling with text formatting in Linux? You're not alone! My new article breaks down the essentials for beginners.

Read more at https://www.spsanderson.com/steveondata/posts/2025-01-24/ and let’s discuss!