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+<a name="repl-mainVideo-transcript"></a>
+# Transcript
+
+
+[[!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"]]
+[[!template text="""generates a PDF, and if I type f8 here it""" start="00:00:53.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!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 &quot;users should not be forced to""" start="00:01:48.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""see Lisp&quot;, that is something that Richard""" start="00:01:51.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Stallman told me once, by &quot;users should see""" start="00:01:53.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Lisp instead of buttons&quot; and &quot;new users""" start="00:01:57.560" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""should see Lisp in the first 5 minutes&quot;...""" 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 &quot;videos for""" start="00:02:37.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""people who hate videos&quot;, 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"]]
+
+[[!template new="1" text="""Another figure""" start="00:02:50.320" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+
+[[!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"]]
+[[!template text="""the font is very bad now, so let me""" start="00:02:59.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""change the font... the figure is this one...""" start="00:03:03.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and...""" start="00:03:07.560" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""what most people do when they""" start="00:03:08.240" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""visit a file with something""" start="00:03:12.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""interesting on it is that they just go""" start="00:03:14.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""there and they set a bookmark there, or""" start="00:03:16.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""they put the position in a register...""" start="00:03:18.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""but I prefer to keep""" start="00:03:21.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""links to everything that is interesting""" start="00:03:26.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""as elisp hyperlinks. So, for example, this is""" start="00:03:29.200" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""an elisp hyperlink to a file, that goes""" start="00:03:32.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""to this anchor here, and to this string""" start="00:03:35.080" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""after this anchor... this is a variant""" start="00:03:37.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""that opens that file in the window""" start="00:03:41.440" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""at the right -""" start="00:03:44.240" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""here... and this is""" start="00:03:45.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""a sexp that changes the font. I""" start="00:03:48.880" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""have a command with a very short name""" start="00:03:53.280" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""that does that, but I""" start="00:03:56.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""prefer to keep that as a one-liner.""" start="00:03:59.440" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""About the videos... we can see""" start="00:04:02.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the list of first-class videos of eev""" start="00:04:06.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!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"]]
+[[!template text="""and then what we see is this...""" start="00:04:18.640" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the first sexp here""" start="00:04:20.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""regenerates this buffer - so we can make a""" start="00:04:24.240" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""mess here and then run this and the""" start="00:04:26.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""original buffer is regenerated again in""" start="00:04:29.400" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""a clean way...""" start="00:04:33.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""each of these things here""" start="00:04:34.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""opens a buffer with information about""" start="00:04:36.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""a video... let me take a specific""" start="00:04:40.880" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""example here... this video here is about""" start="00:04:44.000" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""one of the ancestors of this talk, that""" start="00:04:49.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""is a library that I wrote""" start="00:04:51.040" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""for creating diagrams in LaTeX using""" start="00:04:53.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""a package called Pict2e using REPLs...""" start="00:04:58.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""anyway...""" start="00:05:03.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the thing is that if we""" start="00:05:03.960" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""run a sexp like this one and we don't""" start="00:05:06.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""have a local copy of the video eev""" start="00:05:11.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""will try to download to the local copy -""" start="00:05:14.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and instead of doing that by asking""" start="00:05:17.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""something like &quot;do you want me""" start="00:05:20.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""to download the local copy? Blah""" start="00:05:21.720" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""blah blah blah blah...&quot; it simply opens a""" start="00:05:24.000" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""buffer like this, I mean, if we don't""" start="00:05:28.000" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""have a local copy yet it will open a""" start="00:05:30.720" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""buffer like this one, in which these""" start="00:05:33.360" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""things here in comments are links to the""" start="00:05:36.360" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""documentation... I mean, this thing here""" start="00:05:39.200" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""explains the idea of local copies""" start="00:05:43.840" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""of files from the internet...""" start="00:05:46.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""there are more details here, and here...""" start="00:05:48.760" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""and this is a script that we""" start="00:05:54.760" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""can execute line by line, so instead of""" start="00:05:57.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""this script being hidden behind the""" start="00:06:00.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""button that we just press after a""" start="00:06:02.360" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""question like &quot;Do you want me to do""" start="00:06:06.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""something blah blah blah? Yes or no?&quot;""" start="00:06:08.400" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the script is visible here and we can""" start="00:06:10.240" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""execute it step by step... it creates a""" start="00:06:13.640" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""terminal with a shell here in the""" start="00:06:17.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""right window, and when we type f8 in""" start="00:06:20.800" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""one of these lines here the lines are""" start="00:06:24.800" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""sent... (...) so this is going""" start="00:06:26.840" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""to download a copy of the video... the""" start="00:06:29.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""wget says that I already have a copy of""" start="00:06:31.760" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the video and its subtitles... and so on.""" start="00:06:36.640" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""And after getting a copy of the video""" start="00:06:39.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""we can run this sexp here and it displays""" start="00:06:43.880" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the video.""" start="00:06:48.160" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""I said that eev has lots of""" start="00:06:49.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""&quot;videos for people who hate videos&quot;, and""" start="00:06:55.400" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the idea is that very few""" start="00:06:58.400" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""people are going to watch the videos in""" start="00:06:59.680" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""real time... and most of the people that""" start="00:07:02.040" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""I know - or: most of the people that""" start="00:07:06.560" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""are interested in eev in some""" start="00:07:08.280" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""way... they are going to watch just""" start="00:07:10.640" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""small sections of the video, and most of""" start="00:07:13.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""the time they're just going to read the""" start="00:07:16.320" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""subtitles of the video. So, for each""" start="00:07:17.560" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""one of the videos we have a page""" start="00:07:20.800" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""about the video... let me see if I""" start="00:07:23.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""have internet here... yes. This is a""" start="00:07:27.040" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
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+[[!template text="""and usually these pages have a link""" start="00:07:32.880" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""to another page that""" start="00:07:39.000" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""has all the subtitles of the""" start="00:07:40.760" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""video... uh, wherever... in this one""" start="00:07:43.240" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""it's not so visible...""" start="00:07:46.640" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""but anyway, there are several""" start="00:07:48.320" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""ways of accessing the subtitles of the""" start="00:07:50.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""video, and one of the ways is by running""" start="00:07:52.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""this sexp here,""" start="00:07:56.240" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""that opens a file in Lua that is""" start="00:07:57.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""what I use to generate the""" start="00:08:01.560" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""subtitles.""" start="00:08:03.320" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Anyway... by the way, these things... each""" start="00:08:04.480" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""one of these things here is a hyperlink""" start="00:08:08.520" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""to a position of the video, so if I type""" start="00:08:12.040" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""this the right way it goes to that""" start="00:08:15.240" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""position. Anyway, let me go back...""" start="00:08:18.880" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""also, the tutorials of eev... the""" start="00:08:24.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""&quot;intros&quot; of eev, that start with &quot;find-&quot; and""" start="00:08:27.280" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""end with &quot;-intro&quot;, they have lots of blocks""" start="00:08:31.360" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""that say &quot;[Video links:]&quot;, like this one, and""" start="00:08:34.280" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""these blocks have links to positions""" start="00:08:39.040" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""in videos, and if we don't have a local""" start="00:08:41.360" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""copy of the video yet the thing shows""" start="00:08:43.880" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""us a script that lets us download the""" start="00:08:47.920" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""local copy.""" start="00:08:49.800" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""Anyway, I said that I was going""" start="00:08:50.600" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""to explain what I mean by &quot;magic&quot; and""" start="00:08:54.400" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""&quot;black boxes&quot;.""" start="00:08:58.760" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""this is something that I've been""" start="00:08:59.640" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
+[[!template text="""trying to explain for a long time, and I""" start="00:09:03.120" video="mainVideo-repl" id="subtitle"]]
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