The interesting configuration state of unix programs
mtbuild is a script for efficiently rendering Sweave (LaTeX) fragments, while
shuffling R and LaTeX's numerous intermediary files under the rug in _build. It's designed to support this workflow:
host:~ $ mkdir topic
host:~ $ cd topic/
host:~/topic $ ls
host:~/topic $ echo "$a^2 + b^2 = c^2$\cite{pythagoras}" > notes.mt
host:~/topic $ mtbuild --show-pdf=evince notes.mt
host:~/topic $ ls
_build notes.mt
host:~/topic $
The above will render and display the fragment as a full latex document with a
references section and my favorite formatting. The vimrc also provides a
method to call mtbuild upon writing any .mt files to the disk, to ensure
that the pdf on display corresponds to the file on disk:
host:~/topic $ ls
host:~/topic $ vi notes.mt
host:~/topic $ ls
_build notes.mt
host:~/topic $ evince _build/notes.pdf
To install mtbuild, copy mtbuild/ to ~/.mtbuild/, populate
~/.mtbuild/refstyle.bst and ~/.mtbuild/index.bib with your favorite bibtex
style and bibliography respectively (they can be symlinks), and copy
bin/mtbuild somewhere in your PATH. It depends on LaTeX, R, Sweave, and
cacheSweave, so make sure those are installed.
If git-find is in the path, commands of the form git find ... will behave
as unix find ..., but ignoring any files listed in the .gitignore.
See README.md in that section.
Mutt has a very featureful interface for autocompletion of email addresses and other things. We ignore all that.
In a brutal, simple solution, mutt-grep-maildir <maildir> <outfile> builds a
list recipient addresses of any email within maildir and lists them to
outfile. The muttrc fragment shows how to connect a list of email
addresses stored in ~/.mutt/addressdb to mutt's Ctrl-t autocompletion
feature. What fun!