.....................................................diary
TEXT rainy birthday
TEXT this is good
A blessing, onto my newly empty hands.
TEXT hole in the head
From winter of last year, but despite telling myself
this all would be better kept to myself, having this
sit around is eating holes into my hard drive.
.....................................................hacks
TEXT tenpo, a tiny but friendly pure-bash metronome
As clever and elegant as I could come up with. But not
a gimmick; at least it's what I actually use. The only
hard dependency is your terminal bell; a couple lesser
caveats can be found commented within.
TEXT a sed script for prose text line length
Essentially fmt(1), but does what you mean without any
additional flags. Also, can edit files directly, since
sed.
I have this recurring urge to make it hyphenate too --
despite personally loathing hyphenated text -- just to
justify its existence that little more. I'm like... 72%
certain it could be done in GNU sed.
TEXT ...speaking of justification
Put this function in your .{bash,ksh}rc and use the
shell to justify your plaintext prose, if you agree
with me on groff being messy overkill for this kind of
workflow.
The meat of this comes from the prose text editor I
made for myself -- if you hang out on com, there is a
slim chance you may have heard me talking about it --
the state of it is that it's in fact mostly finished
now. I have been greatly enjoying it for many months,
despite lingering hiccups. More to come, maybe a demo
video, who knows.
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