Seth Kenlon

Authored Content

Parse arguments with Lua

Arguments are vital to interactive computing, and the Lua programming language provides the {…​} expression to encapsulate varargs given at the time of launching a Lua script.

Use arrays in Java

Instead of tracking dozens of individual variables, use an array in Java to collect and store data in a structured way.

Authored Comments

Just to clarify, as the article correctly states:

  • Ctrl+A: Move to the start of a line
  • Ctrl+E: Move to the end of a line
  • Alt+F: Move foward by a word
  • Alt+B: Move back by a word

Additionally:

  • Ctrl+F: Move forward by a character
  • Ctrl+B: Move back by a character

These shortcuts are provided by GNU Readline, and adds Emacs-like navigation to a shell.

You can read more about it with this command:

info readline --node "Readline bare essentials"
 

To use the open source pscp application in the open source Powershell application on the non-open source Windows OS, you need to know how to add it to the system's path. This article demonstrates that.

(We did attempt to demonstrate the same thing on ReactOS instead, but the process is considerably different.)