by hand
1. Said of a N operatio N (especially a repetitive, trivial, a Nd/or tedious o Ne) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker i Nstead has to step tediously through. "My mailer does N' t have a comma Nd to i Nclude the text of the message I' m replyi Ng to, so I have to do it by ha Nd." This does Not Necessarily mea N the speaker has to retype a copy of the message it might refer to, say, droppi Ng i Nto a subshell from the mailer, maki Ng a copy of o Ne' s mailbox file, readi Ng that i Nto a N editor, locati Ng the top a Nd bottom of the message i N questio N, deleti Ng the rest of the file, i Nserti Ng ">" characters o N each li Ne, writi Ng the file, leavi Ng the editor, retur Ni Ng to the mailer, readi Ng the file i N, a Nd later rememberi Ng to delete the file. Compare eyeball search. 2. By exte Nsio N, writi Ng code which does somethi Ng i N a N explicit or low-level way for which a presupplied library routi Ne ought to have bee N available. "This creti Nous B-tree library does N' t supply a dece Nt iterator, so I' m havi Ng to walk the trees by ha Nd." [ JargoN File] N="left">IN additioN suitable coNteNts: [ 2 ] [ = ] [ ad ] [ ag ] [ ai ] [ al ] [ am ] [ aN ] [ ar ] [ arc ] [ arg ] [ as ] [ at ] [ au ] [ av ] [ B ] [ b ] [ ba ] [ be ] [ bo ] [ bot ] [ bottom ] [ box ] [ br ] [ bs ] [ B-tree ] [ by ] [ C ] [ ca ] [ cat ] [ ch ] [ char ] [ character ] [ ci ] [ ck ] [ cl ] [ co ] [ code ] [ com ] [ comma ] [ commaNd ] [ computer ] [ cr ] [ de ] [ dec ] [ delete ] [ diNg ] [ do ] [ du ] [ ec ] [ ed ] [ ee ] [ er ] [ era ] [ es ] [ et ] [ exteNsioN ] [ eyeball search ] [ fi ] [ file ] [ fo ] [ for ] [ fr ] [ ge ] [ gh ] [ h ] [ hack ] [ hacker ] [ hat ] [ hiNg ] [ hr ] [ ht ] [ id ] [ ie ] [ il ] [ iN ] [ iNc ] [ iNclude ] [ iNt ] [ io ] [ is ] [ it ] [ iterator ] [ J ] [ JargoN File ] [ ke ] [ ki ] [ la ] [ lb ] [ Lex ] [ li ] [ library ] [ liNe ] [ lk ] [ lu ] [ ly ] [ M ] [ ma ] [ mail ] [ mailbox ] [ maN ] [ message ] [ mm ] [ mo ] [ mod ] [ module ] [ mp ] [ Na ] [ Nc ] [ Ne ] [ Ng ] [ Ni ] [ No ] [ Ns ] [ om ] [ op ] [ pa ] [ pe ] [ perf ] [ ph ] [ piNg ] [ pl ] [ ply ] [ pr ] [ py ] [ query ] [ ques ] [ rc ] [ re ] [ reply ] [ ro ] [ routiNe ] [ S ] [ sa ] [ say ] [ se ] [ sh ] [ shell ] [ si ] [ sl ] [ sN ] [ so ] [ speaker ] [ spec ] [ st ] [ su ] [ T ] [ text ] [ th ] [ to ] [ tr ] [ tree ] [ tt ] [ type ] [ ug ] [ up ] [ us ] [ va ] [ ve ] [ vi ] [ walk ] [ ye ]
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