On 01 Jan 2000 14:14:11 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > d) A *major* merit to the "each transaction a directory" idea is that
> > it makes it easy to manipulate the data structures by hand or by
> > script whilst the program is running. Until someone hacks a Guile
> > Listener into GnuCash, the ability to hack on the data from the UNIX
> > side of things is Very Valuable.
>
> Could we talk a bit more here about what would be most useful? In the
> next month I might have some time to do something about this. Are you
> talking about something like a "gnucash-eval ..." shell command (like
> the one scwm has)?
I don't see one in scwm; a quick browse through the docs doesn't show
off an "eval" anywhere.
<Ulink URL= "http://www.sfu.ca/~agraf/ggl.html">
describes something rather like what would be nice to have.
And I guess that the answer is probably "yes;" what would be very valuable
indeed would be to be able to open a window that allows values to be
evaluated in the context of the active Guile environment.
One problem that we might need to live with is that things like (display)
tend to write to stdout, and it might prove problematic to change this.
(Or not; there might well be an easy way of temporarily intercept stdout
so that it would output to the window...)
--
Random hacker: Oz needs to be booted.
RMS: Ok, I'll break open a window.
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