Free modes software for linux

RefDB integrates nicely into Emacs. Combined with editing modes for SGML, XML, and RIS documents, youll get an integrated authoring environment with direct access to your bibliographic data.
"Cite-while-you-write", document transformation, and previewing is just a few mouseclicks away for DocBook SGML and XML as well as for TEI XML documents. Emacs support is not included in the RefDB sources, but available separately.
If your editor of choice should be Emacs or XEmacs, the RIS major mode (ris.el) will make editing RIS datasets a little bit more comfortable. Font-locking will help you to spot syntax errors. Especially the end tag (ER - ) is prone to lack the trailing space if youre not careful.
The ris-mode displays valid tags in blue, except the special type (TY - ) and end (ER - ) tags which are shown in red. The tag contents are colored according to several criteria. If the contents of a field is limited in length, the color will extend only up to that limit. Author/editor, publication date, and reprint fields are checked for a valid content. ris-mode also provides the following commands:
- insert-set (C-c-C-s): inserts a new skeleton dataset (a "reference"). The function will prompt you to enter the publication type. You can use either the auto-completion feature of the minibuffer to enter a valid type or the history feature to select a previously entered type. The function will create a newline, a type tag with the type you selected, default sets of tags for a selected range of types, as well as an end tag.
- insert-tag ( C-c-C-t): insert a new tag. Use either the auto-completion feature of the minibuffer to enter a valid tag or the history feature to select a previously entered tag.
duplicate-tag (M-RET): insert a new line below the current line with the same tag as the current line. This command is convenient if you add multiple keywords or authors, each of which have to go on separate tag lines.
- backward-set (C-x[) and forward-set (C-x]): move between RIS datasets.
- narrow-to-set (C-xns) and widen (C-xnw): narrow the buffer to the current RIS set and widen to the full buffer contents.
The mode currently does not check the length of author entries, nor does it handle continued lines in any way. It does not attempt to check whether a reference is complete (e.g. it wont notify you if there is no author)
Enhancements:
- Support for Muse documents was added.

Prodder is a command-line based Podcast client written in Perl that runs on just about any *n*x system. Prodder implements a few very useful features that are lacking in many of the existing tools, while remaining simple and light-weight.
Main features:
- Interactive and autonomous (cronjob) modes.
- Selective downloading (great for dialupers and low-volume users).
- Extended item information (date, enclosure url/size, description).
- User-defined download directory structure (based on title, category, date).
- Playlist generation.
Prodder is released under the GNU General Pulic Licence.

XML::Filter::Mode Perl module can filter out all chunks not in the current mode.

SYNOPSIS

use XML::Filter::Mode;
use strict;

my $filter = XML::Filter::Mode->new( Modes => "a,b,c" );
my $filter = XML::Filter::Mode->new( Modes => [qw( a b c )] );

## To inspect the modes:
my @modes = $filter->modes;

## To change the modes:
$h->modes( qw( d e ) );

Filters portions of documents based on a mode= attribute.

I use this to have XML documents that can be read in several modes, for instance "test", "demo" and normal (ie not test or demo), or "C", "Bytecraft_C", "Perl".

Mode names must contain only alphanumerics and "_" (ie match Perls w regexp assertion).

The filter is given a comma separated list of modes. Each element in the XML document may have a mode="" attribute that gives a mode expression. If there is no mode attribute or it is empty or the mode expression matches the list of modes, then the element is accepted. Otherwise it and all of its children are cut from the document.

The mode expression is a boolean expression using the operators & (which unfortunately must be escaped as "&"), |, , to build mode matching expressions from a list Parentheses may be used to group operations. of words. , and are synonyms.
! may be used as a prefix negation operator, so !a means "unless mode a".

Examples:

Modes mode="..." Action
Enabled Value
===== ========== ======
(none) "" pass

a "" pass
a "a" pass
a "a" pass
a,b "a" pass
a "a,b" pass
b "a,b" pass
a,b "a,b" pass
b "!a,b" pass
a,b "a b" pass

(none) "b" cut
a "b" cut
a "a&b" cut
b "a&b" cut
a "!a,b" cut
a "!a" cut

KSmoothDock is a cool desktop panel (like KDEs kicker) for KDE 3.2 with smooth zooming (2 modes: normal and parabolic).
As it is intended for KDE/Linux, its behaviour will be like that of kicker.
- Programming language: C++
- Libraries used: KDE 3.2
Installation:
Unzip, cd to the directory ksmoothdock then run:
./configure
make
su
make install
***IF you have problems compiling, try:
make -f Makefile.cvs
./configure --without-arts
make
su
make install
(thx 6thpink for this)
Then run:
ksmoothdock
(if when you run "ksmoothdock", nothing happens, then it is likely that your KDE dir is not standard. In this case, either:
- cd to the directory ksmoothdock/src, then run "./ksmoothdock", or
- Re-do the above sequence (./configure ...), but instead of "./configure", type:
./configure --prefix=/YOUR_KDE_DIR
)
Enhancements:
New features:
- New command line options:
- resetConfig reset configuration data
- resetLaunchers reset quick launchers data
Bug fixes:
- Fixed some display bugs (on both normal and parabolic zoom modes) in v4.4.

File::chmod is a Perl module that implements symbolic and ls chmod modes.

SYNOPSIS

use File::chmod;

# chmod takes all three types
# these all do the same thing
chmod(0666,@files);
chmod("=rw",@files);
chmod("-rw-rw-rw-",@files);

# or

use File::chmod qw( symchmod lschmod );

chmod(0666,@files); # this is the normal chmod
symchmod("=rw",@files); # takes symbolic modes only
lschmod("-rw-rw-rw-",@files); # takes "ls" modes only

# more functions, read on to understand

File::chmod is a utility that allows you to bypass system calls or bit processing of a files permissions. It overloads the chmod() function with its own that gets an octal mode, a symbolic mode (see below), or an "ls" mode (see below). If you wish not to overload chmod(), you can export symchmod() and lschmod(), which take, respectively, a symbolic mode and an "ls" mode.
Symbolic modes are thoroughly described in your chmod(1) man page, but here are a few examples.

# NEW: if $UMASK is true, symchmod() applies a bit-mask found in $MASK

chmod("+x","file1","file2"); # overloaded chmod(), that is...
# turns on the execute bit for all users on those two files

chmod("o=,g-w","file1","file2");
# removes other permissions, and the write bit for group

chmod("=u","file1","file2");
# sets all bits to those in user

"ls" modes are the type produced on the left-hand side of an ls -l on a directory. Examples are:

chmod("-rwxr-xr-x","file1","file2");
# the 0755 setting; user has read-write-execute, group and others
# have read-execute priveleges

chmod("-rwsrws---","file1","file2");
# sets read-write-execute for user and group, none for others
# also sets set-uid and set-gid bits

The regular chmod() and lschmod() are absolute; that is, they are not appending to or subtracting from the current file mode. They set it, regardless of what it had been before. symchmod() is useful for allowing the modifying of a files permissions without having to run a system call or determining the files permissions, and then combining that with whatever bits are appropriate. It also operates separately on each file.

An added feature to version 0.30 is the $UMASK variable, explained below; if symchmod() is called and this variable is true, then the function uses the (also new) $MASK variable (which defaults to umask()) as a mask against the new mode. This is documented below more clearly.

Kmplot is a mathematical function plotter for the KDE-Desktop. It has built in a powerfull parser.

You can plot different functions simultaneously and combine their function terms to build new functions.

Kmplot supports functions with parameters and functions in polar coordinates. Several grid modes are possible. Plots may be printed with high precision in correct scale.

markoff project is a random text generator mirroring style of another document.

markoff is a program to generate random text, based on the style of one or more files provided as examples.

Three modes are supported : continuous text, sentence and dictionary. Continuous text mode treats the whole file as a unit, and includes transitions on all whitespace characters (unless -x is specified, in which case line feeds are stripped and runs of whitespace compress to a single space).

Gothello project is a GTK-based Othello game.

Its for one or two players.

You can use it to play against other people or against the computer, or you can play the computer against itself. The AI is implemented using Negamax search with Alpha-Beta pruning, with Iterative Deepening.

It has both fixed-depth and fixed-time search modes.