It has been a while since I posted about RedDiamond, the editor with EDT keypad navigation, but there is finally an AppImage of it. Granted the New World Order wants Flatpaks of everything, but this is one small step. Those of you who are interested can follow the journey forward from its first post starting here. Given Qt Company has gotten Qt run out of much of the IT industry on a rail. Yes, with … RedDiamond AppImageRead more
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Oracle Virtualbox 6.1.38 export bug
If you upgrade from Virtualbox 6.1.34 to 6.1.38 because oracle nags you about it, get ready for export to stop working when the destination is a TNAS or possibly any network drive. Yep! They’ve gone and screwed the pooch there. Really sucked man. Lost the day. I was spending the holiday applying updates, building latest CopperSpice, then exporting each of my development VMs that I use to build RedDiamond packages. Version 3.2 has two features … Oracle Virtualbox 6.1.38 export bugRead more
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The CUTE Journey
Every now and then you will find yourself needing to install a really old Ubuntu version. I stumbled into this with CUTE and Scintilla. You see, the RedDiamond project really needs to jump ship from QPlainTextEdit. The syntax highlighting available in that module is horribly inefficient. If you never have more than a couple thousand lines in your source file and you don’t have multiple source files of that size, you can probably continue on … The CUTE JourneyRead more