On 3 August 2010 21:32, The Quiet Center <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 2, 9:46 pm, Stuart Rackham <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Terrance
>>
>
> Hi Stuart!
>
>> On 29/07/10 03:34, metaperl wrote:
>>
>> > The complete new build-websites.sh is a bit more generic and allows
>> > people to re-use the asciidoc website example for their own site a bit
>> > easier.
>>
>> Is the bash -x option an undocumented option? I can't find it on the bash 
>> man page.

Yeah its well hidden down under the set built in command :-)

>
> wow. All it does is echo the command it is about to execute to STDOUT
>
> - http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/sect_02_03.html
> - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/951336/how-to-debug-a-bash-script
>
>>
>> Long ago I adopted the .txt extension for AsciiDoc source. I experimented 
>> early
>> on with custom extensions but it was too confusing -- AsciiDoc source files 
>> are
>> readable plain text files
>
> heh, but so is restructured text, markdown, github flavored markdown,
> python code, etc.
>
> Basically for emacs I can program it to start up asciidoc-mode when a
> file has a .adoc extension.
>
> Of course, there are other ways to detect the mode of a file, such as
> scanning the first few lines. But the first few lines of an asciidoc
> file are not going to look very distinct from other plain-text markup
> systems.

I havn't tried it but I expect that if the first line was an Asciidoc
comment containing the usual -*- mode:... -*- sequence Emacs should
recognise it

Cheers
Lex

>
> which is what the .txt extension is for and all text
>> edits recognize and open .txt files. I also wanted to be able to pass around
>> AsciiDoc files for others to read without confusing them with "What on earth 
>> is
>> this file with the funny extension he's sent me? How do I open it? Is it 
>> safe to
>> open?".
>>
>> My preference is to stick unambiguously with the .txt extension for AsciiDoc
>> source files. See 
>> alsohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_fileandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_text).
>>  Maybe I should put this in an FAQ.
>
> it's certainly an interesting topic.
>
>>
>> The easiest way is to attach diff files (unified context -u) and post to the
>> discussion list.
>
> got it.
>
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