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Re: New MacBook priced better than Dell. No kidding.

Nico — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:08:15 -0000

If it goes on like this, you need 13 fingers in a year. "Just make a start with six fingers and simultaneously rotate the other 7 around it and - BOOM - another tab opens. It's that simple".

Re: Foucault's Pendulum: An update

Nico — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:02:23 -0000

Most audiobooks are made by reading books that are typeset in Arial. I can't stand the sound of Arial.

Re: View man pages in Xcode script

Nico — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:24:16 -0000

osascript -e ''tell application "XCode" to show document with apple_ref "//apple_ref/doc/man/1/'$1

should work as well and doesn't require gui scripting. Use "//apple_ref/doc/c_ref/" to show documentation for C code (e.g. Carbon functions and constants; cocoa class names work too).

Re: View man pages in Xcode script

Nico — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 04:11:46 -0000

Turns out that what I wrote doesn't work with Leopard (it did work with Tiger, though). But the apple_ref scheme is actually documented: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Develo...

So to open the "interesting" man page (1) (that's what your script does as well) you can use

tell application "Xcode" to show document with apple_ref "//apple_ref/c/func/strlen"

to open the man page for strlen. And

tell application "Xcode" to show document with apple_ref "//apple_ref/occ/instm/NSArray/initWithArray:copyItems:"

to show the documentation for -[NSArray initWithArray:copyItems:]. And so on. Semi-useful if you want to use a better editor than xed for code editing, but still look at XCode documentation from there (only semi-useful because you have to guess the top-level link like occ, c etc first before sending the applescript command to xcode).

Re: A useful octal escape sequence

Nico — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:58:38 -0000

Apparently, C also supports hex escapes, but in a surprising way: \xhhhhhhh is treated as a single byte as long all 'h's are valid hex digits. That means that "\0012" is a string consisting of (char)1 and '2', while "\x0012" is (char)0x12. Python gets this "right", here "\0x0012" is chr(0) + "1" + "2".