A brief history

Liking xemacs meta-A to call set-mark-command:

(defun php-hook ()
""
(define-key php-mode-map [(meta a)] 'set-mark-command))

(add-hook 'php-mode-hook 'php-hook)
(require 'php-mode)

I don't care to recall how many times I have had to resurrect this arcane formula over the years.

And php-mode is in portage for emacs, but not xemacs...

What big documentation you have

I used kdoc to some effect previously. It was a good habit to get into.

doxygen is the generator of choice where I am at the moment.

The incantation I stumbled on involves:

$ doxygen -g proj.dox
$ vi proj.dox
...
ALWAYS_DETAILED_SEC    = YES
JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF      = YES
EXTRACT_ALL            = YES
INPUT                  = x.h y.h ...
GENERATE_MAN           = YES
...
$ doxygoen proj.dox

The html is ok and I like the man pages it spits out.

Command Lines to Forget

Things I find useful to keep handy...

Installing CPAN modules somewhere other than in the system perl directories

perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=/home/me/perl
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/me/perl

Generating usable postscript from man pages

groff -man -Tps apage.3pm >apage.ps

Landscape pages from a2ps

a2ps --columns=1 -f 9 -r -o RESULTS.ps RESULTS.txt

Validate XML against an external DTD

xmllint --noout --postvalid --dtdvalid the.dtd the.xml

Extracting an rpm to the current directory

rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio --extract --verbose --preserve-modification-time --no-absolute-filenames --make-directories