htmlize {Some of my favorite hacks (as of Dec '99... :-)} {

  [P [IT Warning: this page is quite old -- I wrote it around December
    '99, I think, and haven't updated it much ever since...]]

  [HLIST1 {Some of my favorite hacks:}

    [J [AL eev.el], of course\; see the [MYL eev-manifesto.html eev
      manifesto], my [MYL emacs.html emacs page], and [MYL
      eev-mails.html this page], thas some nice technical
      descriptions.]

    [J a [AL .gdbinit] to let eev.el [AL {eev.el gdb} support GDB].]

    [J [AL {.zshrc Snarf} psne], [ES snarf snarf.e]: support for
      downloading stuff from the net, in a way that preserves (well,
      almost) the original url: http://foo/bar becomes
      \$S/http/foo/bar, where [AL {.zshrc Snarf} \$S] is /snarf at my
      home machine, ~/snarf elsewhere. A one-line [ES {slink
      wget_patch} change in wget] to make it treat these urls better\;
      a small [ES {lynx lynx_patch_turbo} patch to lynx] to suppress
      most \"file://localhost/\"s.]

    [J an [AL {.zshrc expect_isp} expect script] to connect to my ISP
      using minicom\; it works even on computers with strange modems
      and horrible Linux distibutions like Conectiva. When you type
      [TT ~d][IT nn], where nn is between 00 and 19, it dials one of
      the phone numbers from a list\; when you type [TT ~][IT [Q1
      \[Enter\]]] it exits minicom and runs pppd.]

    [J a [AL {.zshrc pdsc} shell function] to open the source of a
      debian package on a standard place. I keep copies of the
      standard debian cds on my hard disk, so using this function is a
      snap.]

    [J a [ES {kernel compile22} script to compile the kernel] that
      uses a trick with timestamps to determine which source files
      were really used, and runs glimpseindex and etags on them\; then
      we can search them with [AL {.zshrc glimpse} k22glimpse] and
      find-k22tag.]

    [J [AL MTA/vtutil vtutil], [AL MTA/vtutilsh.c vtutilsh.c], and
      their [AL MTA/Makefile makefile]: a way to change some
      characters on the console font and to make the compose table
      handle them\; these characters can be displayed by [MYL emacs.html
      emacs], even [AL {.emacs glyphs512} with colors], and they can
      be interpreted specially by TeX. Vtutil can also be set to take
      a [MYL emacs.html screenshot] every time you press Alt-up ([ES
      {page capture_screen} kbrequest]).]

    [J My first \"real\" program in Tcl/Tk was an editor for
      commutative diagrams\; it is in its [AL LATEX/diaglib.014 14th
      incarnation], which is a major rewrite, and it should be
      announced on [AL http://www.freshmeat.net/ freshmeat] soon. Take
      a look at its [MYL diaglib.html blurb].]

    [J This set of pages is prepared from a few \"source\" files (see
      [MYL TH/ [TT TH/]] and the \"(src)\"s [MYL map.html here]) using
      the Tcl scripts [AL TH/Generate Generate], [AL TH/Htmllib.tcl
      Htmllib.tcl] and [AL TH/Files.tcl Files.tcl]\; they are called
      from a [AL TH/Makefile Makefile], that generates and includes
      another makefile... and these makefiles are called from [ES page
      these e-scripts], that [ES {page upload_changes} upload the
      files that have changed] and [ES {page twu_minimal_remake} do a
      remote remake]. At my home machine I make the pages with
      different parameters (running [AL {.zshrc makeL} [TT makeL
      all]]), to make most links point to their local copies at [TT
      /snarf].]

    [J the script [AL TCL/attachgdb attachgdb] checks its parent
      process, then its grandparent process, etc, etc, until finding
      one with a given name, \"make\", say\; then it calls gnudoit to
      make the current emacs session attach a gdb to its pid.]

    [ES {emacs tcsh_export} an expect script to understand how to set
      and export variables under tcsh.]

    [ES {x auto-xf86config} an expect script to configure (or
      reconfigure) X.]

    [J Slink's xzoom doesn't respect gravity specs very well\; [ES {x
      xzoom_hacking} here] are some notes on hunting this bug.]

    [J a [MYL .mapleinit] and an [AL EXPECT/eeg Expect script] to add
      eev support for the non-free computer algebra system Maple\;
      ways to extract to text files the [ES {maple decode} Maple
      source for some functions] and [ES {maple ohm} some help
      pages].]

    [J [ES {forth pforth-custom0} When I was trying to glue PForth to
      Tcl] I had to understand how some C files were being
      preprocessed\; I used [TT gcc -E] and then a filter written in
      awk to strip off the parts that came from files from [TT
      /usr/include].]

    [J I'm working on something called (rather pretentiously) [MYL
      forth.html Project Forth Everywhere]. The code is small and it
      is a lot of fun, even at its current stage.]

    [J A [ES {mini plin} modified Debian rescue disk] that lets me [ES
      {hw-parport plip_from_angg} connect my main machine to a
      linuxless 486] laptop using a plip cable (also called a
      \"parallel laplink cable\").]

    [J An [ES {expect split_the_expect_manual} e-script] that splits
      the Expect manpage in one page for each Expect command.]

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# compile the kernel
# diaglib
# expectgdb