13
votes
Why don't tail or cat display new content of a file to which another process is writing?
Python file writes are buffered, so even though you keep calling Python's write(), the underlying OS write() system call isn't called until the in-memory buffer fills, or the file is closed.
If you ...
- 10.1k
4
votes
Accepted
Writing style used in .nfo files contained with cracks for games/software
The broadest term is "ASCII art".
Many NFOs use a form that includes block-drawing characters which previously existed in MS-DOS code page 437 (though the same characters now exist in Unicode). (See ...
- 518k
1
vote
How to resize a screenshot so together with its explanation it fits one document page
When you insert a picture into Word and have the image selected, a contextual Picture Format tab opens on Word’s ribbon.
As you can see in the above clip, Word includes the ability to Crop or Resize ...
- 3,009
1
vote
Accepted
Can I change format of text between '' in Libre Office?
This can be done with a regular expression. Search for ‘(.+)’ and set the format of the replace text to italics:
If you want to keep the quotes, replace with $0, if you want the quotes removed, ...
- 6,049
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible