I have a confession: I kind of like reading about how people have theirUnix work environments set up. In the spirit of sharing what I like, I'mgoing to write up some stuff about my own environment.

By now my personal Unix environment ishighly evolved, which is to say that it is extremely customized (andsomewhat littered with historical remnants). The customization rests ona whole pyramid of shell script tools and little programs so I am goingto talk about them one by one, starting with