Together with an editor like Vi-IMproved, EMACS, or even Nano, this Linux development tool allows the user the pleasure of programming in an IDE-like environment, surrounded by terminals. Simply touching (writing to) the file will result in the re-execution of it.
Flexibly, the user can make use of AutoExec in Linux when working with Perl, Python, Shell, AWK, and Ruby; this is, however, not a complete list, as it's very likely AutoExec can be used in multiple additional ways.
The user can either rely on AutoExec's own interpreter auto-detection, or override with his or her own choice of executable.
Demonstrations of AutoExec can be found all over the YouTube channel of the author of AutoExec, Terminalforlife (formerly Learn Linux).
As you might've guessed by now, this tool was written for Linux, so likely will not work on operating systems like the BSDs, Apple's offerings, and surely Windows (maybe with WSL). If you'd like to help support such a platform, get in touch, so that perhaps we can sort out a patch or some sort of compatibility update.
Installation can be done with Cito. Your best bet, however, is to install via AutoExec's installation script.
For a quick terminal one-liner, using the aforementioned installation script, you should be able to execute the following, assuming you have sudo(8):
(cd /tmp; curl -so autoexec-installer 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/terminalforlife/Extra/master/source/autoexec/autoexec-installer' && sudo \sh autoexec-installer; rm autoexec-installer)If that fails, you probably don't have curl(1), so try wget(1):
(cd /tmp; wget -qO autoexec-installer 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/terminalforlife/Extra/master/source/autoexec/autoexec-installer' && sudo \sh autoexec-installer; rm autoexec-installer)If you don't have sudo(8), just omit it from the command(s) above, and run them as the root user, however you gain such privileges.
If you've used the installer, then you can run the following to delete the files it creates, including the '/usr/bin/ae' symlink created by the installer script:
sudo rm -v /usr/share/man/man1/autoexec.1.gz /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/autoexec /usr/bin/autoexec; [ -L /usr/bin/ae ] && sudo rm -v /usr/bin/ae; [ -L /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ae ] && sudo rm -v /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ae
If you don't have sudo(8), you'll have to acquire root privileges by other means.