comex wrote:
>- Do you use a script to generate your CotC messages?
No. The judicial status report is my master working document, which I
edit manually and post automatically via a cron job. Each case file
is a plain text file which I edit manually. I post the case files,
along with action messages, manually using commands such as:
$ mutt -s'CFJ 1803: result FALSE' [EMAIL PROTECTED] <cfj1803
$ { echo 'I hereby assign OscarMeyr as judge of CFJ 1818.'; echo; cat cfj1818;
} | mutt -s'CFJ 1818: assign OscarMeyr' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's pretty low-tech.
>It seems that Zefram, like me, has to pipe his rules through a formatter as
>a postprocessing step, while root can use some emacs thing to write
>natively in hardwrap mode.
Actually it's not a separate step. I filter chunks of text through
afmt from within my editor (vi). This is the same way that I format
paragraphs of ordinary text using fmt; as soon as I've finished typing
the text of this paragraph I'm going to type "{!}!<cr>" to fill it.
What root does is the Emacs-world equivalent of what I do. In Emacs
it's usual to have such processing code implemented within the editor
in elisp, whereas in vi it's usual to filter through external programs.
>- What about reading the ruleset? Anything besides a standard browser?
I use less(1), which is my usual plain-text viewer. (I also have mutt
fire off less for viewing mail, for example.)
>- How often do you use the CotC database?
Me, not at all, because I have my own CotC database (well, directory).
But that's a special case.
-zefram
