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hi my name is eduardo x I'm this person
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here
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and the title of this talk is on why
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most of
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most of the best features in ev look
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like five minute hacks
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and this is a presentation at the max
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conf 2020
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happening in november 22 28 and 29 2020
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so this is part one of the presentation
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and here I'm going to explain some
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some ideas that are prerequisites for
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understanding the rest of the
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presentation
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the three main keys of ev are matay meta
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k
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and mata j and I'm going to start by
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explaining metae and meta k
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metae is used to follow hyperlink and
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technically it is
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essentially just a ctrl e to move to the
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end of the line and then
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a ctrl x control e to execute this the
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sext before point at the end of the line
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and the thing is that a max comes with
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many functions that can be used as sex
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hyperlinks
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we can consider that they point to
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somewhere I'm going to refer to that as
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the
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target of the hyperlink and if we
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execute this
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sex paper links would go to that target
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for example this one
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is a hyperlink that points to a buffer
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with demand paid for cat
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and usually but not always after
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following the hyperlink we can go back
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by just skilling the the current buffer
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that the hyperlink
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created the target of the hyperlink
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but this example here is badly behaved
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if we execute it it creates a new frame
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and to go back to the previous situation
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we have to either
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click here or type ctrl x50
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uh
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so here are some examples of sex
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hyperlinks using standard max functions
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this third one is uh badly behaved in a
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different way
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if executed we the target is created in
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the same window
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as we are now but it also shows a lot of
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garbage here in the aqua area so
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the the current frame becomes a bit
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messy
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and well one of the first things that I
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did when I was creating av
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many many years ago was that I created
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variants
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of all these functions that were better
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behaved
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and they were better behaved in two
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senses the obvious one
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was that they they all created the
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target
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in the same window as before so I could
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go back by just typing meta k
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which is essentially just killed this
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buffer
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and well but I also implemented
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something extra that
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are the post back lists for example for
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example these
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extra arguments here are a postback list
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and this extra arguments specify
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position and the target buffer
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and in this example this this spot
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spec list means starting from the from
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the beginning of the buffer
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search for the first occurrence of this
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string
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after that after the beginning of the
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buffer and then
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search for the first occurrence of this
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string
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after that
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eev also defines some hyperlinks that do
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not create new buffers
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uh here is the first example if I
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execute
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this one this one is a hyperlink to the
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to the result
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of running this show comment date uh
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but instead of showing the result in the
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new buffer the result is shown
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here so if execute to this type link
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the result of date the output of data is
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shown in the echo area and if executed
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again
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it shows the result again and the result
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changes every second
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and if so this is a variant
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of fine sh
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uh find sh0 is the variant that
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just shows the output in the echo area
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and find sh shows the output in
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a new buffer
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and here is an example of a hyperlink
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that
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calls an external program if execute
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this
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it it calls google chrome to open a
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certain url
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here it is let's go back to mx
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if execute this happening here
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it invokes my favorite pdf viewer which
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is
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xpdf it makes xpdf
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open this pdf page it is pdf
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in this page and this other arguments
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are ignored let me show how it works
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here it is this is a an accept from a
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book
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so page 3 and the pdf corresponds to
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page
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113 in the book and
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this variant here of the hyperlink above
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it opens the pdf in a different way
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it runs a program called pdf to text on
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this pdf here
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and max takes the output of
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run epd after text on this pdf here
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and displays it in a buffer and now this
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postback list
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is interpreted in a different way this
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thing is interpreted
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as a as a number of a page and a max
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goes
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to page three by counting form feeds in
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the
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converted version of the pdf and then it
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searches for this string
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and in this three so let's execute this
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to see what happens
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here it is I opened the same page as
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before
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it starts with lecture one so
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the other hyperlink searched for this
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string and for this string here
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uh and this thing here is a hyperlink to
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video
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and when I executed it's going to open
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this video here
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at this time this time stamp let's see
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one two three one
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two three that's the way to do
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it
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and also some hyperlinks that that I
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defined
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uh they don't work like like usual
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hyperlinks they work more
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like browser buttons
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these buttons that appear in web pages
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in the sense that these buttons usually
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don't open a new page they usually
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just do something to change the current
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page
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if I execute this the action of this
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function
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eek is to uh
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it interprets this string as a series of
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keys and it
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acts as if the user had typed all these
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keys so
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if executed I get a hello in the next
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line
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if executed again I get another hello
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another hello hello hello etc etc
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let me undo this mess oops
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and here is another kind of button
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that defines a new function if I execute
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this sex here at this moment though is
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not defined
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and if I execute this mx is going to
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show me a message saying
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uh symbols function cell is not defined
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something like this
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but if I execute the defund
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this the action of this function o here
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is to run this which opens a certain
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directory
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let me go back and here is another
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button that defines
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several functions at the same time if I
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execute
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this
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note that the the result of executing
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this expression
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is the name of one of the functions that
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it defined
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that is this one here and let me explain
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the
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these examples uh one of the functions
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that this thing here defined
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is called find or git file where
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this or gate in the middle of its name
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is
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exactly this first argument to code cd
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and the action of running find or get
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file
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on a string like this is that
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find or get file takes the string
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and prepends this string to it
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this one here which is the second
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argument to called cd
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and then it executes find flying
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on the result which is this one
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and fine flying is my variant of find
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file
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that supports both spec lists
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and this function here that I'm
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referring to as a button it also defines
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a function called
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find audit node here where the or gate
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is the same string
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as here and this function opens a node
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of of an info manual this one
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this text here opens this node in the
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org manual
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it is equivalent to this text here
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so in the passage from this line to this
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line we prepended
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to the node name the name of the manual
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here and find node is my variant
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of this standard mx function here
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but find node also supports post
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backlists
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eevee also defines some functions that
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define shorter hyperlinks to pdfs and
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videos
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remember that this thing here is a
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shorter hyperlink to a
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to a file and this thing here is a
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shorter hyperlink to a node and
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in an mx menu in an info manual
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uh if we run this thing here this code
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pdf page
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this acts like a button that defines a
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certain function
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and this string this other sex
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here defines another function the first
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one defines
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the function find funcspivac page and
0:11:03.040,0:11:09.279
the second one defines the function find
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from text when we run the
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file when we run findfoxpivotpage it
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opens
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this pdf here the name is
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quite long uh
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this example opens this pdf at page 8
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and searches for the string contents
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oops sorry in this case
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in this case it just ignores this string
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here it only considers
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the number of the page let's try
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ah we got
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here it is uh the contents of a book
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that is freely
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available uh here is another page of the
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book
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and if we execute the this happening
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here
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find funk's pivot text it converts the
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pdf to text
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and it searches for the page eight
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in it and then for the string this
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string here in page eight
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it takes a few seconds
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here it is so this is the
0:12:16.160,0:12:25.040
ascii version of this contents page
0:12:20.320,0:12:28.800
here uh note that this block here
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is a kind of an index to that book
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uh I have the full index somewhere but
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it's very long so I just copied a few
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lines here
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uh so this is a link to the to set
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section one chapter one this is the
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section 1.1
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section 1.1.1 and so on
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and here is a link to the index
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and here is a part of my index
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of positions in the video that we just
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saw
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that I think that are especially
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relevant
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uh so this I believe
0:13:10.639,0:13:14.160
hyperlink is a kind of a button that
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defines this function here
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find punch and punch into the video
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uh
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and we can also use this for video
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tutorials for example
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this is a very good tutorial on on magic
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if we execute this
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then these functions are going to be
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defined and these functions open
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this tutorial on magic
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these are some of the positions in the
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tutorial that I found especially
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especially relevant this is a very dense
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tutorial I had to take notes of
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everything
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and I had to watch everything things
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several times
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and for example this is a link to the
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position in the tutorial that explains
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uh how in space
0:14:09.600,0:14:17.600
space max magic magic
0:14:12.880,0:14:20.480
interprets space gs magic status
0:14:17.600,0:14:22.320
let's see beginners space gs to initiate
0:14:20.480,0:14:25.600
magic's git status
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uh you can also do that's it
0:14:25.600,0:14:32.160
and here are some examples that I
0:14:28.800,0:14:34.240
took from somewhere else the video
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tutorials from
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ralph koenig about org mode
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now let me show how the functions that
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define this router hyperlinks are
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implemented
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the standard ways in max to define
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functions that define
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other functions would be with macros uh
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let's see an example this is a standard
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function that
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defines new functions
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[Music]
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and if we execute it one of the res
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its result is the last function that it
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defined which is
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e-grief which is here
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it's implemented as a macro we can
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look at the result of macro expand which
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is going to show
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show us the result of of this of the
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expansion of this
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instead of expanding and executing it
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just
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expands and shows us the result
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here the result is a bit messy is too
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big for
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humans to understand but we can run
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this or this text here that takes that
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that result and pretty prints it
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so this is the pretty printed version of
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uh this macro here
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we can see that it defines
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several functions here
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for example this one
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and this just as a curiosity is a link
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to
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the definition of cld struct
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and note that the code is huge uh
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well it's very well commented but it's
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it has
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lots of special cases it has uh
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it supports lots of constructions and so
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it's huge and
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it's very difficult to understand I mean
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I found it very difficult to understand
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and here's a link to document the
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documentation of cld struct
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here in the manual for
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cl which is a kind of support for some
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features of common lisp in the max
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so let's compare this standard way of
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defining
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functions that define new functions
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which is with macros
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with this I'm going to use a slogan
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repeatedly the slogan is I am a very bad
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programmer
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I'm a very bad programmer so when I was
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trying to create functions that would
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define new functions
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I found it easier to generally generate
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this code as text
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and then run read and eval in it
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the code cd that we saw in the previous
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section
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we can see the the code that it produces
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by
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making a copy of this line and
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prepending this string here to the name
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of the function
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so instead of running code cd we run
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find code cd
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and it creates a new temporary buffer
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with the code that
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code cd would execute
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so it's a series of the fonts and a few
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set cues and so on
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and this thing is implemented mostly as
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a template
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uh the lola the
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there's an inner function called ee
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called cd base that receives just
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these two arguments and it says
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essentially just runs the function
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e template zero on the string here and
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the things between curly braces are
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substituted by the values
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of these arguments here
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there's one part of the tutorial here
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that explains all these things
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uh except for the rationale for some
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design decisions
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and those design decisions are one of
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the many motivations for this talk but
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um
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we are I'm only going to explain these
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things in detail at the end
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which is kind of so on
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in the beginning I said that the three
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main keys of av
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are meta e meta k and meta j
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let's see now what met what meta j does
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uh but I need to start with some
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motivation uh the motivation is that we
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can define commands with very short
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names and actually I became kind of
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addicted to that
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this is an example of the fund that
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defines a comment with a very short name
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its name is just one letter e
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and I can invoke you invoke it with meta
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x
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e if I type meta xp
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now it opens a latex file that I'm
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working on
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[Music]
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and I create most of my latex files
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using
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template template-based functions like
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the the
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implementation of code cd above and
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this template-based functions create
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files with extension.tag
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that start with a series of the fonts
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and comments for example
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let's look at this example here if I
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execute find the attack links with this
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argument
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uh it's going it's going to do several
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things for creating a
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file called slash tmp slash forward
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attack
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and the header of that file is going to
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be this
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which starts with two and with three
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the fonts with functions with very short
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names and comments
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let's compare with the situation here
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in my file 2020 favorite conventions.tag
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I have this header here in which I
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define six functions with very short
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names
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and in this case here that is even
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explained in the tutorial
0:20:44.799,0:20:51.520
this we have mnemonics for
0:20:48.000,0:20:54.799
these short names here and c is compile
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d is display I mean display the pdf
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and e is added in the sense of make a
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max
0:20:58.159,0:21:05.039
visit that file
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okay now I can explain what is meta j
0:21:05.039,0:21:08.880
itself
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uh we just saw comments with very short
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names
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and the idea is behind meta j is that we
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can define comments with very short
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numbers
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let me explain this uh
0:21:19.679,0:21:23.039
the short explanation for what meta j
0:21:22.559,0:21:25.360
does
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is that it jumps to set certain
0:21:25.360,0:21:29.760
predefined places
0:21:27.039,0:21:30.799
in particular a meta j without a numeric
0:21:29.760,0:21:33.280
argument
0:21:30.799,0:21:34.080
takes us to a buffer with with the basic
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help
0:21:34.080,0:21:39.760
and a list of the current age of targets
0:21:37.679,0:21:41.520
and this is something that is a bit
0:21:39.760,0:21:44.559
simpler to understand
0:21:41.520,0:21:47.919
if we type meta five meta j
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then meta j runs this sex
0:21:47.919,0:21:55.440
here that is associated to
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the argument five I say that the target
0:21:55.440,0:22:01.520
for the argument five is this one
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and if the argument is true then the
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target associated to the to the true
0:22:03.760,0:22:09.600
is this sex here that opens
0:22:07.039,0:22:10.240
well this one opens the main tutorial vv
0:22:09.600,0:22:13.679
and this one
0:22:10.240,0:22:15.679
opens another tutorial
0:22:13.679,0:22:20.480
this is a link to one of the tutorials
0:22:15.679,0:22:22.559
of ev to the part that explains meta j
0:22:20.480,0:22:24.559
I've copied the the main part of the
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text here
0:22:24.559,0:22:31.360
the header the header that meta j shows
0:22:28.159,0:22:33.919
let me show it very quickly here
0:22:31.360,0:22:36.320
here is their header and here is their
0:22:33.919,0:22:39.039
rest
0:22:36.320,0:22:40.000
the header is very beginner friendly and
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if you're a beginner
0:22:40.000,0:22:44.559
who only knows how to use meta e to
0:22:42.159,0:22:46.799
execute and met
0:22:44.559,0:22:48.240
this should be okay and meta k to go
0:22:46.799,0:22:52.320
back
0:22:48.240,0:22:55.840
then you can and should use that header
0:22:52.320,0:22:55.840
I mean this header here
0:22:56.720,0:23:00.799
as your main starting point and every
0:22:59.360,0:23:03.679
time that you feel lost
0:23:00.799,0:23:04.799
you can type meta j and to go back to
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that header
0:23:04.799,0:23:08.000
and you can use its links to navigate to
0:23:07.039,0:23:11.360
the documentation
0:23:08.000,0:23:14.799
for max nav let me explain that
0:23:11.360,0:23:15.679
uh this header here has several ellis
0:23:14.799,0:23:19.039
hyperlinks
0:23:15.679,0:23:22.400
one here one here
0:23:19.039,0:23:25.760
one here one here and so on
0:23:22.400,0:23:29.280
uh these ones are links to the
0:23:25.760,0:23:30.880
to the intros which are the tutorials
0:23:29.280,0:23:32.480
find if you quick enter in the main
0:23:30.880,0:23:35.760
tutorial and find ev
0:23:32.480,0:23:36.720
keys intro is a kind of tutorial that is
0:23:35.760,0:23:39.520
an index of
0:23:36.720,0:23:39.520
the main keys
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and after that we have an explanation of
0:23:42.559,0:23:46.799
what some
0:23:43.279,0:23:50.240
numeric prefixes do so if we type
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met one method j the effect of that is
0:23:50.240,0:23:54.640
exactly the same as executing this and
0:23:53.200,0:23:58.080
we can execute this
0:23:54.640,0:23:58.080
with meta e also
0:24:00.159,0:24:06.960
meta tube meta j runs this sex and
0:24:03.679,0:24:10.559
I can also execute it with meta e
0:24:06.960,0:24:14.240
here it is it's this uh
0:24:10.559,0:24:18.400
intro this uh
0:24:14.240,0:24:22.960
sandbox tutorial and
0:24:18.400,0:24:22.960
here is another sandbox tutorial
0:24:24.640,0:24:28.720
let me go back and then the
0:24:27.039,0:24:30.880
documentation says that
0:24:28.720,0:24:31.760
that header the header that is beginner
0:24:30.880,0:24:33.679
friendly
0:24:31.760,0:24:35.520
is followed by a section that is very
0:24:33.679,0:24:37.600
beginner unfriendly
0:24:35.520,0:24:40.240
that contains a series of the fonts like
0:24:37.600,0:24:40.240
these ones
0:24:40.400,0:24:44.640
here the last line of the header is this
0:24:43.440,0:24:46.720
comment here
0:24:44.640,0:24:48.559
and then we have several defense like
0:24:46.720,0:24:51.440
this
0:24:48.559,0:24:53.840
let me explain how these things work
0:24:51.440,0:24:57.360
technically what happens when we type
0:24:53.840,0:24:57.840
meta j without any arguments is that it
0:24:57.360,0:25:00.960
runs
0:24:57.840,0:25:04.640
eu jump with argument neil and then
0:25:00.960,0:25:06.480
this runs 5 e jumps
0:25:04.640,0:25:08.000
when I run meta j with a numeric
0:25:06.480,0:25:11.120
argument for example
0:25:08.000,0:25:14.400
with argument 5 it runs a jump
0:25:11.120,0:25:17.679
5 and e jump five
0:25:14.400,0:25:20.400
uh concatenates this five one
0:25:17.679,0:25:21.679
to make a name of a function this
0:25:20.400,0:25:24.320
function here
0:25:21.679,0:25:24.720
and it executes this function e jump
0:25:24.320,0:25:28.880
five
0:25:24.720,0:25:31.919
you jump uh dash five
0:25:28.880,0:25:35.520
and eu jump dash five is
0:25:31.919,0:25:39.360
executes find ev equity intro
0:25:35.520,0:25:41.440
if I execute just meta j
0:25:39.360,0:25:43.919
the section that shows the current age
0:25:41.440,0:25:47.120
on targets
0:25:43.919,0:25:48.159
has a line for e job five this is that
0:25:47.120,0:25:52.159
is exactly the
0:25:48.159,0:25:52.159
thing that I was explaining before
0:25:52.400,0:25:59.520
so we can use meta j to navigate the
0:25:54.840,0:26:03.440
tutorials and we can copy the links
0:25:59.520,0:26:06.799
sorry we can copy links to the to
0:26:03.440,0:26:06.799
tutorials to our notes
0:26:07.919,0:26:14.880
oh sorry this has some typos
0:26:11.840,0:26:18.080
for example if I execute this
0:26:14.880,0:26:20.640
I go to a section of this tutorial here
0:26:18.080,0:26:24.320
that explains the main keys of ev
0:26:20.640,0:26:26.240
and these things are hyperlinks I can
0:26:24.320,0:26:27.440
mark a hyperlink like this it is just
0:26:26.240,0:26:30.559
plain text and I
0:26:27.440,0:26:31.760
can copy it to my notes and the idea is
0:26:30.559,0:26:33.520
that every time
0:26:31.760,0:26:35.520
every time that I find something that is
0:26:33.520,0:26:36.240
interesting I can create a hyperlink to
0:26:35.520,0:26:38.720
it
0:26:36.240,0:26:40.799
and I can put these links in my notes so
0:26:38.720,0:26:42.960
I can navigate back
0:26:40.799,0:26:45.360
to all the interesting positions very
0:26:42.960,0:26:45.360
quickly
0:26:48.799,0:26:54.080
okay next feature if we type meta
0:26:51.760,0:26:57.039
uppercase j
0:26:54.080,0:26:57.039
uh then
0:26:57.600,0:27:03.679
this this is a function that transforms
0:27:00.080,0:27:06.080
the current line in a certain way
0:27:03.679,0:27:07.360
let me give an example let me isolate
0:27:06.080,0:27:09.919
this and let me create
0:27:07.360,0:27:11.039
duplicate this line to to make clear
0:27:09.919,0:27:14.240
what happens
0:27:11.039,0:27:16.880
if I type meta uppercase j here
0:27:14.240,0:27:17.440
this line here becomes the fund for a
0:27:16.880,0:27:21.200
jump
0:27:17.440,0:27:24.799
6 and the target of this e-jump
0:27:21.200,0:27:28.399
is exactly this sex here
0:27:24.799,0:27:28.399
let me undo this mess
0:27:28.559,0:27:32.840
and if the first word in the line is not
0:27:31.360,0:27:36.240
a number for example
0:27:32.840,0:27:39.039
here let me do the same thing
0:27:36.240,0:27:41.200
duplicate the line and type meta
0:27:39.039,0:27:44.240
uppercase j
0:27:41.200,0:27:45.600
then mat uppercase j converts that to a
0:27:44.240,0:27:49.440
defund that defines
0:27:45.600,0:27:52.720
a function with a very short name
0:27:49.440,0:27:56.720
and this function with a very short name
0:27:52.720,0:27:59.360
opens this file here in the directory
0:27:56.720,0:28:01.360
with the copy of the the git repository
0:27:59.360,0:28:04.880
for org mode
0:28:01.360,0:28:04.880
let me undo the mass again
0:28:05.360,0:28:07.760
oops
0:28:09.120,0:28:11.679
that's it
0:28:14.640,0:28:21.279
meta uppercase j is a
0:28:17.760,0:28:24.559
particular case of of something that
0:28:21.279,0:28:25.279
I use a lot in eevee I have if he has
0:28:24.559,0:28:28.799
lots of
0:28:25.279,0:28:31.780
comments that sorry key sequences
0:28:28.799,0:28:33.200
that are like meta uppercase letter and
0:28:31.780,0:28:35.279
[Music]
0:28:33.200,0:28:37.279
almost all of them operate on the
0:28:35.279,0:28:38.880
current line and transform the current
0:28:37.279,0:28:42.000
line in certain way
0:28:38.880,0:28:45.360
for example this is a file name
0:28:42.000,0:28:48.640
and if I type meta uppercase f here
0:28:45.360,0:28:50.000
it becomes a link to that file this is
0:28:48.640,0:28:53.600
the name of a month page
0:28:50.000,0:28:55.760
and if I type meta uppercase m here
0:28:53.600,0:28:58.080
it converts that to the link to a month
0:28:55.760,0:29:01.679
page and this is a shell command
0:28:58.080,0:29:04.960
and if I type meta uppercase s here
0:29:01.679,0:29:08.720
it converts that to a link to a
0:29:04.960,0:29:11.919
to find fan shell
0:29:08.720,0:29:12.960
and until a few years ago these
0:29:11.919,0:29:16.159
functions
0:29:12.960,0:29:18.080
with matter uppercase letter were half
0:29:16.159,0:29:18.880
of my main ways of creating sex
0:29:18.080,0:29:21.039
hyperlinks
0:29:18.880,0:29:22.399
with few key strokes in the beginning of
0:29:21.039,0:29:25.600
course I had to create my
0:29:22.399,0:29:28.640
sex pipelines by typing each character
0:29:25.600,0:29:31.520
but uh after some time and decided that
0:29:28.640,0:29:34.559
I needed something more efficient
0:29:31.520,0:29:34.960
so this is end of part one of the two of
0:29:34.559,0:29:37.760
the
0:29:34.960,0:29:37.760
presentation
0:29:38.480,0:29:41.760
so this is part two of the presentation
0:29:40.640,0:29:44.320
and the main theme
0:29:41.760,0:29:46.320
here is the standard describe key
0:29:44.320,0:29:49.200
function that comes with the max
0:29:46.320,0:29:50.960
and my variant of it the thing is that
0:29:49.200,0:29:53.120
the standard described key in max
0:29:50.960,0:29:55.600
is user friendly but it is hacker
0:29:53.120,0:29:58.559
unfriendly well I felt so
0:29:55.600,0:30:00.799
and when I tried to complement it by by
0:29:58.559,0:30:03.120
writing a hacker friendly version of it
0:30:00.799,0:30:03.919
that produced the sex hyperlinks that I
0:30:03.120,0:30:05.440
needed
0:30:03.919,0:30:07.039
I got something that I found really
0:30:05.440,0:30:09.679
lovely and
0:30:07.039,0:30:12.480
several of the main designs design
0:30:09.679,0:30:14.320
decisions of eev can be seen there
0:30:12.480,0:30:15.520
but when I showed my variants to other
0:30:14.320,0:30:17.760
people they hated it
0:30:15.520,0:30:19.360
they felt that it was totally against
0:30:17.760,0:30:23.440
their notions of
0:30:19.360,0:30:25.760
user friendliness
0:30:23.440,0:30:26.799
okay so let's see the standard describe
0:30:25.760,0:30:30.159
key if I run
0:30:26.799,0:30:32.399
this hyperlink here I get
0:30:30.159,0:30:34.399
this the result of running the scribe
0:30:32.399,0:30:36.399
key on the key down
0:30:34.399,0:30:38.080
and this is a big buffer with some
0:30:36.399,0:30:41.360
things in italics
0:30:38.080,0:30:43.120
and some hyperlinks here these
0:30:41.360,0:30:43.679
hyperlinks are standard in the sense
0:30:43.120,0:30:46.240
that
0:30:43.679,0:30:47.760
the targets are not visible and they are
0:30:46.240,0:30:50.799
implemented using
0:30:47.760,0:30:51.200
buttons in a max lisp this section of
0:30:50.799,0:30:53.919
the
0:30:51.200,0:30:56.240
mx list manual describes how buttons
0:30:53.919,0:30:56.240
work
0:30:56.799,0:31:03.440
and the the source code is
0:31:00.640,0:31:04.240
quite difficult I mean when I was
0:31:03.440,0:31:06.559
starting to
0:31:04.240,0:31:07.600
to try to decipher this when I was a
0:31:06.559,0:31:11.200
beginner
0:31:07.600,0:31:12.320
using max 19.34 I felt that this
0:31:11.200,0:31:15.519
described key was
0:31:12.320,0:31:20.080
very difficult to understand uh
0:31:15.519,0:31:22.640
and I felt that the the designers the
0:31:20.080,0:31:23.679
the people who wrote it were sacrificing
0:31:22.640,0:31:26.159
too much of the
0:31:23.679,0:31:30.000
hacker friendliness that I was expecting
0:31:26.159,0:31:30.000
from it to make it beginner friendly
0:31:31.279,0:31:34.799
let me explain what are the the problems
0:31:33.600,0:31:36.559
with the standard
0:31:34.799,0:31:38.640
the describe key if we think that
0:31:36.559,0:31:41.600
hyperlinks are things like this
0:31:38.640,0:31:43.600
with the target and the text then in the
0:31:41.600,0:31:47.120
button hyperlinks of describe key
0:31:43.600,0:31:49.120
this three bad things happen first
0:31:47.120,0:31:51.200
it is hard to extract the target from
0:31:49.120,0:31:52.000
the hyperlink second it is hard to
0:31:51.200,0:31:54.480
recreate
0:31:52.000,0:31:55.440
a list of code that would go to that
0:31:54.480,0:31:57.519
target
0:31:55.440,0:31:59.840
and third it is hard to copy the full
0:31:57.519,0:32:00.640
hyperlink including the targets to other
0:31:59.840,0:32:04.399
buffers
0:32:00.640,0:32:04.399
I only knew how to copy the text
0:32:04.960,0:32:09.039
when I was trying to decipher what
0:32:07.279,0:32:11.679
described key was doing
0:32:09.039,0:32:12.159
I created lots of hyperlinks like this
0:32:11.679,0:32:14.960
to
0:32:12.159,0:32:16.159
inspect the text properties and things
0:32:14.960,0:32:18.480
like that
0:32:16.159,0:32:20.000
for example in the description of the
0:32:18.480,0:32:23.600
key down
0:32:20.000,0:32:26.559
here we have a button that points to
0:32:23.600,0:32:26.559
simple dotel
0:32:26.799,0:32:31.600
the text of that button is simple.l this
0:32:29.679,0:32:34.320
hyperlinks goes to the
0:32:31.600,0:32:35.519
to the middle of this button hyperlink
0:32:34.320,0:32:39.120
here
0:32:35.519,0:32:41.919
uh this hyperlink here
0:32:39.120,0:32:43.279
goes to the middle of the button of this
0:32:41.919,0:32:46.240
button hyperlink
0:32:43.279,0:32:47.679
and then inspects its text properties
0:32:46.240,0:32:51.679
and then goes to
0:32:47.679,0:32:53.679
this section here of the description
0:32:51.679,0:32:56.159
so this is a high level description of
0:32:53.679,0:32:58.000
the text properties
0:32:56.159,0:33:00.000
I mean the text properties that make it
0:32:58.000,0:33:02.480
a button and this is a
0:33:00.000,0:33:04.320
lower level description of the these
0:33:02.480,0:33:08.000
text properties
0:33:04.320,0:33:11.440
and the button that points to
0:33:08.000,0:33:11.919
forward line sorry the the button that
0:33:11.440,0:33:14.399
whose
0:33:11.919,0:33:16.480
text is forward line this one is
0:33:14.399,0:33:19.039
slightly different
0:33:16.480,0:33:21.200
this hyperlink here goes to the middle
0:33:19.039,0:33:24.559
of that button
0:33:21.200,0:33:25.760
and this hyperlink goes to the mid to
0:33:24.559,0:33:28.559
the middle of that button
0:33:25.760,0:33:29.360
inspects its text properties and go to
0:33:28.559,0:33:32.559
the section
0:33:29.360,0:33:35.760
of this button of this help
0:33:32.559,0:33:36.399
uh buffer here that describe the the
0:33:35.760,0:33:39.120
button
0:33:36.399,0:33:41.679
and the lower level view of the text
0:33:39.120,0:33:45.519
properties
0:33:41.679,0:33:47.519
so I started to with things like this
0:33:45.519,0:33:50.159
to understand what these buttons were
0:33:47.519,0:33:50.960
doing and I was able to figure out how
0:33:50.159,0:33:53.120
these things are
0:33:50.960,0:33:55.519
implemented and describe key and then
0:33:53.120,0:33:57.760
similar help functions in max
0:33:55.519,0:34:00.000
and I discovered that one of the main
0:33:57.760,0:34:01.360
lower level functions that a max used
0:34:00.000,0:34:04.080
for this
0:34:01.360,0:34:05.279
is a function called find function no
0:34:04.080,0:34:08.240
select
0:34:05.279,0:34:09.929
if I run find function no select on next
0:34:08.240,0:34:11.200
line
0:34:09.929,0:34:14.240
[Music]
0:34:11.200,0:34:18.079
it returns a pair
0:34:14.240,0:34:20.560
a cons made of a buffer and a position
0:34:18.079,0:34:21.679
so I created functions that would that
0:34:20.560,0:34:24.320
would
0:34:21.679,0:34:25.119
uh follow this that would open that
0:34:24.320,0:34:28.320
buffer
0:34:25.119,0:34:29.679
in that position and then this is a
0:34:28.320,0:34:31.679
postback list
0:34:29.679,0:34:33.919
so we could go to these positions and
0:34:31.679,0:34:36.000
then search for this string and another
0:34:33.919,0:34:40.320
string and another string and so on
0:34:36.000,0:34:41.040
so this goes to the definition of find a
0:34:40.320,0:34:44.159
function
0:34:41.040,0:34:47.919
and then to a to a string
0:34:44.159,0:34:49.040
after it and I use these things to
0:34:47.919,0:34:51.839
implement my own
0:34:49.040,0:34:52.960
functions that pointed to the same the
0:34:51.839,0:34:55.440
same targets
0:34:52.960,0:34:57.679
as the button hyperlinks and describe
0:34:55.440,0:34:57.679
key
0:35:00.240,0:35:05.599
again let me show the comparison this is
0:35:03.200,0:35:10.480
the standard describe key
0:35:05.599,0:35:13.839
here and this is my variant
0:35:10.480,0:35:17.680
uh it creates a buffer with links
0:35:13.839,0:35:20.960
with the list hyperlinks about this key
0:35:17.680,0:35:22.960
we get this so each one of these
0:35:20.960,0:35:27.280
functions is either a blank line
0:35:22.960,0:35:27.280
or a or an ellipse hyperlink
0:35:28.720,0:35:32.880
here is a slight variant of the of the
0:35:31.760,0:35:35.920
function
0:35:32.880,0:35:38.079
find e key links above in this variant
0:35:35.920,0:35:39.280
the argument is a string that has to be
0:35:38.079,0:35:42.400
processed by
0:35:39.280,0:35:45.280
read cbd macro to convert it to the
0:35:42.400,0:35:48.160
lower level format
0:35:45.280,0:35:49.040
and note that these functions here that
0:35:48.160,0:35:51.440
I wrote
0:35:49.040,0:35:53.599
they display temporary buffers with no
0:35:51.440,0:35:57.359
help at all
0:35:53.599,0:35:58.560
uh to be honest there's a link to a
0:35:57.359,0:36:01.680
tutorial here but
0:35:58.560,0:36:03.200
this is a recent edition so let's ignore
0:36:01.680,0:36:06.640
this
0:36:03.200,0:36:08.320
uh they they display temporary buffers
0:36:06.640,0:36:09.520
with no help at all just lots of
0:36:08.320,0:36:11.599
hyperlinks
0:36:09.520,0:36:13.359
and these hyperlinks can be they are
0:36:11.599,0:36:15.040
very hacker friendly in the sense that
0:36:13.359,0:36:17.520
they can be followed with
0:36:15.040,0:36:19.920
metae they can be copied to other
0:36:17.520,0:36:23.680
buffers because they are plain text
0:36:19.920,0:36:26.240
because they are just sex
0:36:23.680,0:36:28.000
and they can be inspected in the sense
0:36:26.240,0:36:31.280
that
0:36:28.000,0:36:31.280
for example here
0:36:32.400,0:36:35.520
we have a hyperlink to a function that
0:36:34.079,0:36:37.599
we
0:36:35.520,0:36:39.200
it may be difficult to figure out what
0:36:37.599,0:36:42.320
this function does
0:36:39.200,0:36:45.839
but we can go to that position and then
0:36:42.320,0:36:48.240
type ctrl h f to see the descript
0:36:45.839,0:36:52.400
description of this function
0:36:48.240,0:36:53.890
and here is a hyperlink to
0:36:52.400,0:36:56.000
the does that
0:36:53.890,0:36:59.920
[Music]
0:36:56.000,0:36:59.920
in my syntax say
0:37:00.160,0:37:04.480
and this list of hyperlinks were
0:37:02.800,0:37:08.000
generated by
0:37:04.480,0:37:11.119
this code here that just just uh
0:37:08.000,0:37:14.320
used a back quote to to generate
0:37:11.119,0:37:14.320
lists of sex
0:37:14.640,0:37:21.040
and I I felt that this function here
0:37:18.240,0:37:22.160
uh that just generated this list was
0:37:21.040,0:37:24.960
very easy to understand
0:37:22.160,0:37:28.480
and to modify so this was hacker
0:37:24.960,0:37:31.599
friendly in the way that I wanted
0:37:28.480,0:37:34.079
and so I started using this
0:37:31.599,0:37:36.800
and this idea of using buffers with sex
0:37:34.079,0:37:38.720
fiber links and no help violated
0:37:36.800,0:37:40.079
all the notions of user friendliness
0:37:38.720,0:37:42.000
that I knew so I was
0:37:40.079,0:37:46.160
exploring some something new at that
0:37:42.000,0:37:49.359
time and this is the end of part two
0:37:46.160,0:37:52.240
part three of this presentation is uh
0:37:49.359,0:37:54.800
about the killer features of ev or why
0:37:52.240,0:37:57.920
everybody should use av or at least have
0:37:54.800,0:37:59.280
eev installed even if they think the tv
0:37:57.920,0:38:01.440
is too weird
0:37:59.280,0:38:03.440
so this is a very quick listing eevee
0:38:01.440,0:38:04.240
has lease hyperlinks which are super
0:38:03.440,0:38:06.560
nice
0:38:04.240,0:38:07.599
it comes with lots of tutorials the main
0:38:06.560,0:38:10.800
one here
0:38:07.599,0:38:14.079
explains all the main features
0:38:10.800,0:38:15.040
uh there's also a tutorial with that's
0:38:14.079,0:38:18.079
an index of
0:38:15.040,0:38:21.680
all the other tutorials here
0:38:18.079,0:38:24.079
many many many tutorials uh if we forget
0:38:21.680,0:38:27.280
everything we can just type meta j
0:38:24.079,0:38:28.880
and remember that this this part here is
0:38:27.280,0:38:30.839
beginner friendly and the rest is
0:38:28.880,0:38:32.960
beginner
0:38:30.839,0:38:38.079
unfriendly
0:38:32.960,0:38:38.079
there's a tutorial on max list here
0:38:38.320,0:38:44.640
it mainly explains how to understand
0:38:41.920,0:38:46.320
a lisp code which is much easier than
0:38:44.640,0:38:47.040
it's much easier to understand the lisp
0:38:46.320,0:38:48.800
code and
0:38:47.040,0:38:50.160
then to understand how to program in a
0:38:48.800,0:38:53.440
lisp and
0:38:50.160,0:38:55.920
most people are only going to need this
0:38:53.440,0:38:58.240
uh ev is very easy to install it's in
0:38:55.920,0:39:00.560
helper so we just need to do
0:38:58.240,0:39:03.440
this thing here and it's very
0:39:00.560,0:39:03.440
non-invasive
0:39:03.520,0:39:08.000
uh years ago several years ago it was a
0:39:06.079,0:39:08.960
very invasive package but then I changed
0:39:08.000,0:39:13.520
everything
0:39:08.960,0:39:16.640
now uh if we toggle ev mode on and off
0:39:13.520,0:39:20.000
what's going to happen is just that the
0:39:16.640,0:39:21.599
evk map key map becomes activated or
0:39:20.000,0:39:24.720
deactivated
0:39:21.599,0:39:28.320
and when we install the evita
0:39:24.720,0:39:28.640
I mean when we require the only things
0:39:28.320,0:39:32.640
that
0:39:28.640,0:39:34.480
happens globally distance here
0:39:32.640,0:39:36.240
several functions and variables become
0:39:34.480,0:39:40.079
defined all of them have
0:39:36.240,0:39:43.040
standard prefixes except for one
0:39:40.079,0:39:44.480
three characters are changed in the
0:39:43.040,0:39:48.640
standard display table
0:39:44.480,0:39:52.079
to make them appear as colored glyphs
0:39:48.640,0:39:54.160
the red star and two and the open
0:39:52.079,0:39:57.839
double angle brackets and the closed
0:39:54.160,0:39:57.839
double angle brackets
0:39:58.160,0:40:04.560
and two environment variables are set
0:40:01.359,0:40:07.599
and this is a trivial technicality
0:40:04.560,0:40:10.160
we just run a def advice
0:40:07.599,0:40:10.800
around one function that that is used by
0:40:10.160,0:40:14.240
man
0:40:10.800,0:40:16.720
justice also
0:40:14.240,0:40:18.400
eevee has a very high discoverability
0:40:16.720,0:40:21.839
factor
0:40:18.400,0:40:25.200
and there's a way to create a very easy
0:40:21.839,0:40:27.760
way to create a hyperlink to here
0:40:25.200,0:40:29.760
uh I do not have time to show this now
0:40:27.760,0:40:32.960
but for example if I'm
0:40:29.760,0:40:34.480
here in a tutorial and I think that that
0:40:32.960,0:40:36.240
this
0:40:34.480,0:40:39.520
section is something interesting and I
0:40:36.240,0:40:41.200
want to create a hyperlink to it
0:40:39.520,0:40:43.040
I just have to type a certain key
0:40:41.200,0:40:46.800
sequence here
0:40:43.040,0:40:50.400
and here I got a hyperlink that I can
0:40:46.800,0:40:52.260
copy to my notes and this hyperlink goes
0:40:50.400,0:40:58.240
to that section
0:40:52.260,0:41:00.720
[Music]
0:40:58.240,0:41:02.319
we have hyperlinks that point to
0:41:00.720,0:41:05.839
specific positions in
0:41:02.319,0:41:09.119
pdf documents and nvidia files here
0:41:05.839,0:41:09.680
this one opens a pdf and displays it
0:41:09.119,0:41:13.920
this one
0:41:09.680,0:41:16.720
opens a pdf and converts it to text
0:41:13.920,0:41:18.400
and this one opens the video in a
0:41:16.720,0:41:20.480
certain position
0:41:18.400,0:41:22.079
and we also have a way to control
0:41:20.480,0:41:25.280
shell-like programs
0:41:22.079,0:41:27.440
uh in my presentation of the last year I
0:41:25.280,0:41:29.520
spent one third of the presentation
0:41:27.440,0:41:31.839
explaining this and I think that I gave
0:41:29.520,0:41:35.680
a very good demonstration there
0:41:31.839,0:41:38.800
the demonstration is here
0:41:35.680,0:41:41.839
we can go to the web page and go to
0:41:38.800,0:41:45.440
this section of the web page
0:41:41.839,0:41:45.440
and start by this point
0:41:47.680,0:41:54.079
and here we have an explanation and so
0:41:51.440,0:41:54.079
on whatever
0:41:55.920,0:41:59.200
and I've already mentioned this before
0:41:58.720,0:42:01.119
uh
0:41:59.200,0:42:02.240
eevee comes with a very nice elise
0:42:01.119,0:42:04.240
tutorial
0:42:02.240,0:42:05.599
so that's it this is the end of part
0:42:04.240,0:42:07.359
three
0:42:05.599,0:42:09.839
so this is the last part of my
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presentation and it's about the title of
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the
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the presentation I called the
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presentation why
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most of the best features in eevee look
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like
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like five minute hacks uh I've already
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run off
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out of time so I have to to skip this
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first
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part here in which I describe how I
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was exposed to several different notions
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of user friendliness
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and how the one that really blew my mind
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was the one in
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in a certain uh fought environment
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uh and let me make the long long story
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very very short
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uh in all this process I switched from
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from
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the belief that the user was always
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someone else
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someone external and that that I always
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had to write my programs for
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this external user I switched
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from from that to the belief that I am
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the user
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and I can play with the interface that I
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want I can
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write programs which that
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that only I am going to understand I can
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experiment with hundreds of interfaces
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and then select the best ones
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and document them and then share them
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with other people
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who are also experimenting with
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interfaces in their
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own ways and so eevee has
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lots of things that are user-friendly in
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these unusual ways that I've explained
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before
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and uh and if we disconsider that this
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notion of user friendliness is valid
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then this implement these things that av
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implement they are
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user friendly and hacker friendly at the
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same time
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and let me show one example this is one
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this is
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one that really took me one only five
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minutes to implement
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uh at one point a few months ago I
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discovered
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that sasha chewer's weekly posts about
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the max news
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had uh were also being posted to a
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mailing list that is stored at
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lists.we know.org and it's called max
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dungeons
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uh and I just and I found a way to
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create
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the links to to the posts in both places
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but I had to use a template for that so
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what we are seeing here now
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is a template with the the default
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values so this means that we have not uh
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set the year correctly we have not set
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the month correctly
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or the day correctly but if we run this
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text
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here uh let me do something else before
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if we run this text here
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which we change some of these
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entries in the
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in the template and we get these links
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here
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they all work for example this one opens
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uh the blog post in in session sasha
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chewers
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site and this one
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opens it in the mailing list
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and sometimes I want the org source of
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that and the easiest way to get the word
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source is to
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look at this link here that has an
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attachment
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and if I take this
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link here and I take this
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stem that points to to the attachment
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and I put it here and I generate this
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page again
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with all this data then I get a script
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here
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that downloads let me switch to a
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smaller font
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it downloads this attachment
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and it renames that attachment to
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something
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dot slash nx news sorry some things
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uh iphone mx news hyphen
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something mxnews.org here
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the file is already here already with
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the right name
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so I can open it with just this
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hyperlink
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let me go to the big font again
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[Music]
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and now I have the work source for that
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hyperlink
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sorry for that blog post
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and so this one line thing
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here is in a sense
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a a to to this blog post in all its
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formats
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uh if I execute this I get links to
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to all the places where it is posted
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and I get a hype and I get a script to
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download the local copy
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of the org source of it and that's it
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well I'm already out of time so let me
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finish here
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thanks bye
