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heh associates file extensions/types with user defined programs/shell
scripts and handles/opens them accordingly (for a more detailed description
of "heh", its features and how to use it, go to the
Features page).
Kyle told me (Jeremy) about a command line utility that Mac OS X has called
open that opens files with the appropriate application according to
the Finder database. I then noticed that Linux/Unix did not have a similar
utility (openvt is not close to this). So I set about writing one.
Since it was going to involve text parsing, I decided to write it in Perl.
Kyle got involved by giving me ideas to implement (which I did) and eventually
just became co-developer. We share the workload of both design and
implementation. (Special credit goes to Benny, for providing food for thought.
Benny, you know who you are.)
So, why "heh"? Well, when we decided that it was time to release 1.0 on
Freshmeat, I ran a search for "open" and found that there was already a project
by that name that was supposed to do the same thing. As it turns out this
open is pretty restrictive and simplistic (and it was written in C).
So we decided to go ahead with the submission, but with a new name. As a joke,
a friend suggested "heh". We took him seriously. We decided on "heh" because
it is very easy to remember and type, and it's kinda catchy. After we decided
on this name, a friend of ours suggested that it could stand for "Handy
Extension Handler", so it stuck!
This page last modified October,26 2002
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