Have you ever discovered software that you wished you found earlier?

https://almy.us/teco.html -- there is a freebsd port as well.

I did use TECO but that was a very long time ago. All I remember now is accidentally stumbling upon its surprising response in one case. To edit a file you say "TECO <file>" but to create a new file you say "MAKE <file>". So of course I typed "MAKE LOVE" and it came back with "NOT WAR?" It was years and years later when I learned such unexpected hidden things in software are called easter-eggs!
 
Other piece of software, that I began to use too late, is the unix calendar.
I call it from .tcshrc, then I see at every login may calendar. Every year, I generate with
a script a template for .calendar with entries for each day to be completed.
Before that, I had my calendar in paper, although I knew of the existence of calendar,
I was just not so aware of a triviality: how practical and comfortable is to use it.
 
hruodr said:
Other piece of software, that I began to use too late, is the unix calendar.
I call it from .tcshrc, then I see at every login may calendar. Every year, I generate with
a script a template for .calendar with entries for each day to be completed.
Before that, I had my calendar in paper, although I knew of the existence of calendar,
I was just not so aware of a triviality: how practical and comfortable is to use it.
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Can you share this setup with us? please
 
BobSlacker said:
Can you share this setup with us? please
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See what shell you are using and what rc for it.
If your login shell is tcsh (I think the standard),
then if there is a ~/.tcshrc file, put "calendar" inside of it,
if there is not a ~/.tcshrc, but a ~/.cshrc, then put "calendar" in the last.

For example, if you have "fortune" there, substitute it with "calendar".

The trivial script for generating the templates is here:


Note that some modifications are necessary, in the first line must be the path to tclsh,
for example /usr/local/bin/tclsh8.6 if you installed tcl with pkg install tcl8.6.

You need to substitute /usr/home/user/.calendar/allyears with the path of a calendar file
allyears containing entries that are the same every year (for example birthdays).
You can generate the file with the script (and delete the "#include"-line in the generated file).
 
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