Conventions
fixed-width text contents of code files or output from commands, or source code keywords
<fixed-width, emphasised text, angle bracket delimited text> file and directory names, program and command names, command-line options, urls, user-defined parameters.
fixed width, bold text keywords
[fixed-width, square bracket delimited text] optional items in syntax descriptions
{fixed-width, curly bracket delimited text} list of items in syntax descriptions, one must be chosen
| separates bracketed items in lists in syntax descriptions
line numbers
operators
strings
Basics
- Character Entities including numberic entities.
- Colours hexadecimal codes for colours in html/css.
- Languages alphabetically sorted links to chronologically sorted brief descriptions of programming languages.
- Operating Systems alphabetically sorted links to chronologically sorted brief descriptions of operating systems
(theoretically, they're not in chronological order yet).
- screensizes a desktop background showing limits of various screensizes
(png format, 12Kb / 12,092 bytes 1280x1024 pixels).
Common resolutions: 640x480, 800x600, 848x480, 1024x768, 1152x864, 1280x720, 1280x768,
1280x960, 1280x1024, 1600x1200, 2048x1536
- features some of the features I like to see in various programs.
- CLI commands command line interface commands.
- *nix Shortcuts keyboard shortcuts for a couple of *nix programs (woefully inadequate).
- *nix Programs brief descriptions of basic *nix programs.
- kill the use of kill and xkill to end stubborn programs>
last
And because it doesn't seem to belong anywhere else - here's a list of the metasyntactic variables
foo
bar
baz
qux
qux
fiz
bin
