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[P Rough edges: [L http://sun.xlii.org/~david/ David Allouche] tried
to install eev.el in his RedHat box and had a hard time\; then he
published his experience in his [L http://sun.xlii.org/~david/diary/
diary] and sent me a mail, that inspired [A0L EEV/todavid.txt this
long reply], this [ES {escripts eev-quick-inst} dirty installation
guide], this first draft of an [ES {escripts eev-tutorial} e-script
about the how to use eev.el] and a few changes in eev.el itself. I
think that most people will agree with David's proposal of a new
interface, but I would like to keep eev's interface as close to the
bare metal as possible for a zillion reasons, including incompetence
:-(. I'm trying to improve the docs and examples, tho, and (but this
is a half-secret) to make scripts that will let people pack what they
installed of Debian in a single CD, together with their e-scripts and
favorite files, and reinstall that system elsewhere very easily. More
on all this later...]


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[P You may be wondering why many of my files, including eev.el itself,
are full of funny characters. Well, the \"^O\"s appear like small red
boxes on my screen, and the chars 174 and 175 (0xae and 0xaf in hex,
0256 and 0257 in octal) appear like green [Q1 {"<<"}]s and [Q1
{">>"}]s (they have non-standard codes because I still use codepage
850). See the section about glyphs on my [L emacs.html Emacs page]
(and the screenshots there).]

[P [L http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-13.en.html Brave Gnu
World #13] featured a very nice review of eev.el!]

[P [LR http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/02/13/950498652.html
The appindex page of eev.el at freshmeat]. Useless.]

[P Things to write about:]

[P eev in an Emacs shell window vs. eev in another virtual console]

[P [AL EXPECT/eeg The interface to generic programs] (and other
interfaces using Expect)]

[P On adding docstrings to the eev source to make checkdoc happy]

[P How these pages are converted to html]



[P Setting up your own e-scripts repository] 


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[P [BF Directions, present and future:] all my new e-scripts have a
strong Debian-Potato flavor\; [TT find-status] inspired a standard way
of starting an e-script block for a Debian package, and maybe in some
time I'll have enough Potato things to announce eev on the Debian
lists.]

[P I've got a new motherboard and a new processor and now w3 (a web
browser written in Emacs Lisp) runs really fine. Expect zillions of
elisp hyperlinks using w3 in my next e-scripts...]

[P (Update: they are starting to appear, and now if you invoke a
find-___w3 hyperlink with the M-e shortcut you have the right to send
an [ENODE Argument numeric argument] to find-w3 that will determine if
you want to open the link with w3 or with lynx, but this is still very
hackish).]

[P If you use Debian Potato then installing the Hurd can be very easy.
Check [ES {hurd hurd-install-easy} this e-script.]

I'm buying a new HD in the first days of June, and some of my first
projects for it involve installing the Hurd and preparing Hurd CDs to
give to friends.]

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