1. Said of an operation (espe
Cially a repetitive, trivial, and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automati
Cally by the
Computer, but whi
Ch a ha
Cker instead has to step tediously through. "My mailer doesn' t have a
Command to in
Clude the text of the message I' m replying to, so I have to do it by hand." This does not ne
Cessarily mean the speaker has to retype a
Copy of the message it might refer to, say, dropping into a subshell from the mailer, making a
Copy of one' s mailbox file, reading that into an editor, lo
Cating the top and bottom of the message in question, deleting the rest of the file, inserting ">"
Chara
Cters on ea
Ch line, writing the file, leaving the editor, returning to the mailer, reading the file in, and later remembering to delete the file.
Compare
eyeball searCh. 2. By extension, writing
Code whi
Ch does something in an expli
Cit or low-level way for whi
Ch a presupplied library routine ought to have been available. "This
Cretinous
B-tree library doesn' t supply a de
Cent iterator, so I' m having to walk the trees by hand." [
Jargon File]
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