by hand
1. said of an operation (e specially a repetitive, trivial, and/or tediou s one) that ought to be performed automatically by the computer, but which a hacker in stead ha s to step tediou sly through. "My mailer doe sn' t have a command to include the text of the me ssage I' m replying to, so I have to do it by hand." Thi s doe s not nece ssarily mean the speaker ha s to retype a copy of the me ssage it might refer to, say, dropping into a sub shell from the mailer, making a copy of one' s mailbox file, reading that into an editor, locating the top and bottom of the me ssage in que stion, deleting the re st of the file, in serting ">" character s on each 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 exten sion, writing code which doe s something in an explicit or low-level way for which a pre supplied library routine ought to have been available. "Thi s cretinou s B-tree library doe sn' t supply a decent iterator, so I' m having to walk the tree s by hand." [ Jargon File] style="border-width:thin; border-color:#333333; border-style:dashed; padding:5px;" align="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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