Tom Schneider's ToolKit

toolkit.zip: The toolkit is a directory containing many Unix tools that I use. Each tool is documented internally. Some extremely useful ones are:

atchange - on-the-fly automation
yvp quickly get to a paper in PubMed by Year, Volume and Page!
nowhere - jump to a directory directly by key name.
fb: Fix Buffer. This allows one to edit the cut/paste macOS buffer created by command-C. It does so by putting a copy of the buffer into a time-stamped file in /tmp. Then the vim editor is opened on the file. When you write the file out the /tmp file is put into the cut-paste buffer.

Sampling of other tools:

calaround: Unix tool to see the calendar for months around the current one. It uses the Unix cal program to show the surrounding months.
fmti - format text paragraphs
slideshow: make an html slide show
thethe: catch repeated words in a document
usfn: unspacefile name, a script for Unix folks that removes spaces from file names.
diffhtml: compare two files visually
BibTeX and PubMed Tools Lists more tools for BibTex and PubMed/PubMedCentral

Master Tool Kit Packing List

toolkit-packing-slip: a simple list of the components in the current toolkit.

The toolkit contains a script called unpacktoolkit that will unpack the tools and put them in a directory called ~/script for you. Once you have done that, you can use the script grabtoolkit to automate the whole process by obtaining the latest toolkit by ftp.

Notes

This page is: https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/toolkit.html
Macintosh. You can download the toolkit to a Mac and it will run fine there.
Linux. The tools should work under Linux, but I haven't tested them that much there.
LaTeX. The toolkit has scripts associated with LaTeX
- You can get the entire LaTeX system from the Tex User Group tug.org.
- I became a member so I get their wonderful (literally full of wonder!) TUGboat publication
- A subscription to TUGboat also gets one the yearly distribution Tex Collection DVD of the software. This makes installation easy.
- You can get help with that from the texhax mailing list, http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo.
Requests. If there are tools you would like to see (aside from individual information which is under patent) you can ask me to put them in the kit.

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origin: 2002 Oct 10
updated: 2024 Aug 14
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