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[[!template new="1" text="""Intro""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Hi! My name is Eduardo Ochs""" start="00:00:00.000" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and the title of this talk is: REPLs""" start="00:00:03.080" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in strange places - Lua, LateX, LPeg, LPegRex,""" start="00:00:05.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and TikZ. I'm the author of an Emacs""" start="00:00:09.400" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""package called eev, and this is a talk""" start="00:00:12.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""at the EmacsConf 2023, that is happening in""" start="00:00:14.880" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""December 2023, at the internets.""" start="00:00:18.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""Diagrams""" start="00:00:22.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""This is one of the""" start="00:00:22.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""examples of diagrams that we are""" start="00:00:23.080" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""going to see - let me show how I generate""" start="00:00:24.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it... one second,""" start="00:00:27.640" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I have to use a smaller font here...""" start="00:00:30.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""this is a file called ParseTree2.lua...""" start="00:00:35.800" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""let me go back to this block of tests again...""" start="00:00:39.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and now if I run""" start="00:00:42.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""this...""" start="00:00:43.880" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""we get these outputs here at the""" start="00:00:47.760" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""right, and then in this line here it""" start="00:00:50.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""shows the PDF in the lower right window.""" start="00:00:58.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template new="1" text="""eev""" start="00:01:03.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Let me start by explaining""" start="00:01:03.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""briefly what is eev.""" start="00:01:06.080" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""First: it is something that""" start="00:01:09.840" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""appeared by accident in the mid-90s - I""" start="00:01:12.240" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""explained this story in my""" start="00:01:14.760" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""presentation at the EmacsConf 2019...""" start="00:01:16.800" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""it's a package... it's an Emacs""" start="00:01:20.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""package that is part of ELPA... it has at""" start="00:01:23.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""least 10 users - those are the ones""" start="00:01:26.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that I know by name...""" start="00:01:29.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""eev means `emacs-execute-verbosely'...""" start="00:01:32.560" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""eev is something that treats eval-last-sexp""" start="00:01:38.440" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""as the central feature of Emacs...""" start="00:01:40.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""eev blurs the distinction between""" start="00:01:44.000" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""programmers and users, and it replaces""" start="00:01:45.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""the slogan "users should not be forced to""" start="00:01:48.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""see Lisp", that is something that Richard""" start="00:01:51.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Stallman told me once, by "users should see""" start="00:01:53.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Lisp instead of buttons" and "new users""" start="00:01:57.560" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""should see Lisp in the first 5 minutes"...""" start="00:02:00.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I'm going to show""" start="00:02:04.000" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""some examples of that soon.""" start="00:02:05.280" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""Eev uses code in comments a lot,""" start="00:02:08.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and also tests in comments...""" start="00:02:11.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""I changed my way of presenting it""" start="00:02:15.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""and it became very REPL-centric""" start="00:02:17.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""in the last few years, in the""" start="00:02:19.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""sense that I start by explaining its""" start="00:02:22.320" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""main features by its support for REPLs...""" start="00:02:24.400" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""eev supposes""" start="00:02:28.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""that we want to keep""" start="00:02:31.080" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""executable notes of everything - I'm also""" start="00:02:32.640" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""going to show examples of this in a""" start="00:02:35.200" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""second... eev has lots of "videos for""" start="00:02:37.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""people who hate videos", and it tries to""" start="00:02:40.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""do everything with very little magic and""" start="00:02:43.560" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""without black boxes - I'm going to explain""" start="00:02:46.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""many of these things very soon.""" start="00:02:48.840" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""This is a figure that that I'm going""" start="00:02:50.320" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""to show in details soon, that is""" start="00:02:52.800" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""about something important about Lua...""" start="00:02:57.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""by executing this, M-x find-1stclassvideos,""" start="00:04:10.080" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
[[!template text="""or by running this alias here, M-x 1c...""" start="00:04:14.760" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
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[[!template text="""a package called Pict2e using REPLs...""" start="00:04:58.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
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