Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

[Tom Buskey]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> Not an answer to the OP, but a follow-on.
>
> So, you've worked out a magnificent one-liner solution to a
> interesting and recurring task.  How do you 'remember' your solution?
>
> Do you create a file with scripts and comments?
> Do you post it in a wiki?
> A blog?
> An IDE with snippets?
> Do you remember it in your head?
>
> I used to store my good one-liners in Konsole as 'bookmarks' because
> you could put anything into a bookmark. Until KDE4. They "improved"
> the bookmark system which now only knows telnet:// and ssh:// "URLs".
> Konsole even re-writes your bookmarks as you save them by url-encoding
> them.  The issue is apparently due to reliance on Kurl - a core class
> in KDE, and so "not a problem" with Konsole.
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185962
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88867
>
> Greg Rundlett
>

Nice.

I keep text files.  I have some going back to 1996 when I used exmh email.

I wonder how much data got lost because it was kept in a format that
changed.  Like Wordperfect, dbase, etc...
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