Is there any good alternative to ASpell? It's nice open source, but haven't been updated for a while. The performance is not too good and I am having trouble creating a custom worklist with non-alpha characters.
Hunspell. It's what Firefox uses for its spellchecker.
Check out Hunspell.
There is also Ispell, might not be faster or better maintained, but it supports international characters. I don't know how it compares to Hunspell.
I switched to aspell for emacs flyspell program, but it kept freezing my pc and I switched back to ispell.
(setq-default ispell-program-name "ispell")
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I have got a PE executable file *.exe (32-bit), which is an small application (2.6Mb) to update firmware software of TV device. However, the update mechanism was only available up to 2013-03-12. I want to hack this executable just for pleasure. I'm trying to find this expiration date in file hexdump using PE Explorer, and replace it by some date in future to make this program work.
I found this article about binary date format:
binary date format
I am trying to find something like this value:
2013-03-xx: 0x713xxxxx
Is this a good approach to solve my task? Any suggestions? Do you know any others tools for hexdump that may be useful?
Best regard,
WP
There are likely a lot of values of the form 0x713xxxxx -- 2.6 MB might be larger than you've thought when you start looking through it more or less at random (you don't actually know that the application uses this date format internally).
The conventional approach to deal with this sort of problem is to use a tool to step through the program, examining the code that is executing, until you find the point where the check occurs. Then simply disable the check so that it always fails -- by altering the date, or simply by altering the code.
A popular tool for stepping through code that you do not control is the Interactive Dissassembler, IDA. You can download a freeware version of it here: https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/download_freeware.shtml
It might be harder than you think to do what you want, but you'll almost certainly learn a lot by trying.
Be aware of the legal issues you may be getting yourself into by making modifications to someone else's binaries, particularly if you distribute them afterwards.
dumpbin is a good PE parser (but if I were you, I won't do such kind of time stamp hacks :))
Eclipse has a feature, where it "guesses" arguments for a method call, based on types (and probably variable names?). Is there an equivalent in IntelliJ? I know Smart Complete should be capable of completing multiple arguments, but it doesn't work as good (especially when there is more than one String argument for example).
EDIT: It's called "Insered best guessed arguments" in Eclipse.
There is Ctrl+Shift+Space (Smart-Type, I think), but as of this writing, it's crap and doesn't go the whole hog.
Despite being an Eclipse fan, I've always openly acknowledge that if Eclipse can do it, IntelliJ can probably do it better... not this time, how dissappointing q(`_`!)p
IDEA doesn't support it, see the related feature request.
Try
(Ctrl+P) for Windows/Linux
Or
(Cmd+P) for OS X
this lists you the parameters for a method.
If you can accept a very basic low tech version of this, you could try this Gist
https://gist.github.com/kontext-e/f68c6a1b90dd862afb5d
for IDEAs LivePlugin.
Please ping me if there is some interest that I should make a real plugin out of this.
Sometimes I want to look up the implementations of functions in the stdlib, I've downloaded the sourcecode, but it's quite messy.
Just greping is not really suitable because of the many hits.
Does anyone know a webpage doxygen style that has the documentation.
The same goes for the linux kernel.
Thanks
You should check if your distribution is using the vanilla GLIBC or the EGLIBC fork (Debian and Ubuntu have switched to EGLIBC EDIT: they switched back around 2014).
Anyway, the repository browser for GLIBC is at http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git
http://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/, posted by #guruz below, is a good alternative.
The source is a bit complicated by the presence of multiple versions of the same files.
How about this for libc documentation? And perhaps this for the kernel? There is also Google Code search; here is an example search.
More on Google Code Search You can enter search queries like this: package:linux-2.6 malloc for any references to malloc in the linux-2.6 kernel.
Edit: Google Code search is now shut down. But you can access the git repo at http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git and it has search as well.
You can try http://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/
It has nice navigation/hilighting similar to an IDE.
To help navigate the source to glibc, perhaps try something like ctags or cscope?
Note: I get dumber every time I look at the glibc source, so please be careful! :)
If you are using GNU C (glibc), the functions (beyond the GNU extensions) follow the POSIX standard as far as their arguments, implementation, failure and return values. If you want to peek under the hood of static members, you'll have to look at the code.
Every push (that I can remember) to try and adopt something like Doxygen for glibc was rejected for the following reasons:
Redundant, POSIX already documents almost everything thats exposed, as well as man and info pages.
Too much work initially
More work for maintainers
As far as the kernel goes, Linux does use a system very similar to Doxygen called Kerneldoc.
You can also get actual Doxygen-generated docs from http://fossies.org/dox/glibc.
I found the WordBasic.FilePrintSetup function when I was searching for a way to change Word's printer without changing Windows' default printer.
Unfortunately I could not find any real documentation on FilePrintSetup, even the parameters I found with Google aren't officially documented. (Printer and DoNotSetAsSysDefault)
So do you know of any documentation? Or do you know additional parameters which are supported by FilePrintSetup? (I'm especially interested in setting the tray/paper bin)
EDIT: I found out that the paper bin can be selected with FilePageSetup, an equally undocumented function. So if you have information about this function, I'd appreciate them, too :)
The online help documents the equivalent VBA for WordBasic functions/methods. These are read-only though.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa264153(office.10).aspx
Edit: ActiveDocument.PrintOut allows you to select a tray for first and following pages.
Note that the printername parameter of the fileprintsetup method is case-sensitive. XP and Win7 don't store server\printernames the same way so you may find a problem when upgrading OS
The previous reply is wrong. ActivePrinter DOES change the system default printer. Microsoft's documentation clearly states this.
The project I am currently working on requires a lot of hexadecimal numbers to be entered into the code.
I once saw a pic of an old keyboard with a hexadecimal numpad (has A-F letters on it also) replacing the normal numpad. Anyone know where I can get one of these?
IPv6 Buddy -keypad should work well for hexadecimal input.
http://www.ipv6buddy.com/
If you can get your hands on one of the retired space shuttles, they have one!
I have an old Heathkit learning toy with a hex numpad because the only way to program it was to assemble code by hand (it came with a 6800 manual and some notepads) into the online monitor. This was actually fun!
Mine is missing the 'D' button however.
Great idea with the programmable keypad. I think i am going to pick up one of these: DX1 input system. Works for any reconfiguring I might want to do.
Is this the one you're talking about?
funky http://www.cpmuseum.com/Exhibits/Apple%20Lane/7603/7603-0005/images/000%20Front%20View.jpg
While this has a lot of "gee whiz" appeal, I have to say:
You have two hands. Use them. A-F are all reachable with the left hand on a standard keyboard while your right hand is on the num-pad. Instead of putting muscle-memory time into some arcane Hex-pad, you'll be learning to touch-type with your left hand, which has application outside your current project.
Better yet, come up with a smarter way of getting the hex codes into your code. Write a script that extracts them from your data-source and into your code as symbolic variables... or whatever.
EDIT
Ok, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Lets assume you're working on a hardware project and need to provide a specialized interface for your user. Maybe a programmable keypad would fit the bill?
Not sure of the specifics right now, but I'm pretty sure you can easily write a keyboard remapper. You could remap the QWASDF keys to ABCDEF in order to type them more quickly. That way you could use 2 hands to type. Or if you are in control of the program they are being typed into, you could just translate the keys in code on the fly. You also might want to try out the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator