Re: [lojban] How to make best use of jbofi'e?

[Shae Matijs Erisson <shae@ScannedInAvian.com>]

And Rosta <arosta@uclan.ac.uk> writes:

> Bearing in mind that I've not used or downloaded it -- and do tell me
> if I'm talking out my arse here -- I'd like to ask if there are any clever 
> ways of using it in a Windows invironment, or whether one has to 
> create a text file and run jbofi'e on it -- which is something one
> probably wouldn't bother to do for, say, an email message with
> one sentence of Lojban in it.

I primarily use a lightly modified elisp defun that runs jbofi'e on any
selected region, though I have another version that uses the rest of the line
instead.  These started with the file "emacs_functions" that comes with the
debian jbofi'e package and they require emacs of course:

;;;;;;;;; lojban defuns
(defun lojban-parse () ""
  (interactive)
  (shell-command-on-region (region-beginning) (region-end)
"jbofihe -x -b"))

(defun lojban-fgrep (regexp) "fgrep lojban-common for a word"
  (interactive "sfgrep pattern: ")
  (grep (concat "fgrep -h \"" regexp  "\" /usr/share/lojban/*")))

(global-set-key [(f9)] 'lojban-fgrep)

(global-set-key [(f11)] 'lojban-parse)
; end lojban stuff

The lojban-fgrep defun searches all of the files in the lojban-common debian
package for whatever regexp you put in.

Since I also use XEmacs for my irc client, these are very useful on the #lojban
channel on irc.openprojects.net.

Assuming you already know how to use emacs, this will all work equally well on
windows with minor modifications.
-- 
Shae Matijs Erisson - http://www.webwitches.com/~shae/
<radix> shapr: I think you *are* a purist :)
<radix> shapr: it's just that you're morally against unstable software, instead
        of morally against MS, or non-free software, or whatnot.