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# Little function to prevent Zsh from going below the bottom 3rd line of your terminal. 
# Michael Longval 
# mlongval <at> gmail.com 

# Tags:  KDE  Konsole  Zsh z-shell

# I was having trouble with KDE Panels covering my Konsole sometimes 
# (would have to stop typing and click the panel to make it automatically disappear.) 

# It works by printing 2 new-line characters and then going 2 lines back up

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Fixing Gmail account creation error on Thunderbird 115.12.2

I spent hours scouring the net and finally found how to get Thunderbird version 115.12.2 on Ubuntu 24.04 to connect to my Gmail account.

The reference is from:

https://superuser.com/questions/1499159/thunderbird-fails-gmail-oauth2-despite-correct-credentials/1839995#1839995

by: https://superuser.com/users/1109344/feldmarshall

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" Exit Vim if Backspace key at beginning of unmodified buffer (top left)

" Very usefull if you use a terminal file explorer like Ranger 

" https://github.com/ranger/ranger

" you can just got into and out of files with Enter and Backspace keys. 

" Obviously will notify if buffer is modified and unsaved.

mlongval

29.04.2023 13h25

I wanted to try and install mattgodbolt's cool BBC Basic
Owlet Editor on my system.

[https://github.com/mattgodbolt/owlet-editor]

Here is the blurb from the repository describing it:

    Owlet Editor

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# vim: filetype=python

# Simple #!/usr/bin/env python3
# vim: filetype=python

# Michael Longval
# mlongval@gmail.com

# Simple menuing system to execute scripts in $HOME/bin/menu1_items

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# set the document modeline and spelling to english
snippet setenglish "" b
# vim: spell spelllang=en
`!p vim.command("set spelllang=en")`
endsnippet

# set the document modeline and spelling to french
snippet setfrench "" b
# vim: spell spelllang=fr
`!p vim.command("set spelllang=fr")`

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def overlap():                                            
    import random                                         
    listA = random.sample(range(100), k=10)               
    listB = random.sample(range(100), k=12)               
    listC = list(set([x for x in listA if x in listB]))   
    listC.sort()                                          
    return listC                                          

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(*
ToggleGrayScaleMode for MacOSX 10.9 Mavericks
works as of 15 april 2014

This is an AppleScript UI script to toggle GrayScaleMode in System Preferences.
I am red-green colorblind and grayscale helps a lot...

Works for me. Hope it can be usefull for you.

Mike

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Getting matplotlib running with python3

Here are the steps that I went through to get Matplotlib to work.

(as far as I know so far.....)

I am using a Xubuntu 12.04 (Ubuntu) system.

(Your mileage may vary....)

mlongval

"""
This is for use in the AutoKey text expander under Linux

The version of this script that came with the program does not work
on my system...

I think it's because I use python3

Returns the current date. in the dd/mm/yyyy format