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• a unix single-line editor/prompt?

  - by jes5199

  I've got a bash script that would be nicer if when I prompt the user, rather than just asking for input, if it provided a line that the user could edit (but a full text editor would be overkill, it's only one line) What tool provides this? dialog's inputbox is almost right, but I'd rather it didn't paint the whole screen.

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• Web History: Early examples of collapsing and expanding content in an essay

  - by jes5199

  I vaguely remember that in the early days of the browser, one notion of what hypertext could be used for was a "zoom in" detail for academic essays: if you wanted a brief overview, you'd take the outermost level, and if you wanted to delve, you would click something and more sentences would appear. I know this sounds trivial and now, but in the mid-1990s it was thought-provoking. Has anyone seen any web fossils like this lying around, ideally still live on the web somewhere?

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• StringScanner scanning IO instead of a string

  - by jes5199

  I've got a parser written using ruby's standard StringScanner. It would be nice if I could use it on streaming files. Is there an equivalent to StringScanner that doesn't require me to load the whole string into memory?

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