On 02 Jan 2000 14:01:31 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I don't see one in scwm; a quick browse through the docs doesn't show
> > off an "eval" anywhere.
>
> I think it's actually called scwmrepl (there's also a one-shot
> scwmexec, I think). I don't have scwm installed ATM, so I'm not sure.
> I'm running sawmill these days. It's the first WM I've used that I
> have almost no complaints about, and it has *really* good gnome
> integration (actually insinuates itself into the gnome control panel
> directly).
I usually run WindowMaker, which is "rather pretty" without being overly
lard-like in memory consumption.
And I do see scwmrepl now; not sure what I'd really use it for.
> > <Ulink URL= "http://www.sfu.ca/~agraf/ggl.html">
> > describes something rather like what would be nice to have.
>
> Hmm. I was thinking more along the lines of a command line tool that
> would pop up a repl that was directly connected to the one in the
> currently running invocation of gnucash (we could also have a --pid
> argument if you needed to specify a particular one). You could also
> (presuming we do something like what I describe below) do some fairly
> clever things like this:
>
> $ gnc-repl --run-script foo.scm > some-saved-data
>
> We'd have to be careful to detect if there's a controlling terminal
> and not put up a prompt if so, etc.
>
> This approach would have the advantage of giving you a nice readline
> interface with command history for free. You'd still have the problem
> that stdout would point to the window you launched gnucash from,
> though. There might be a way to redirect (or duplicate) stdout/err to
> the command line invocation, but I'd have to think about it. It would
> probably be easier to just go through all the code and change all the
> printfs, displays, etc to use explicit ports. Then we can redirect
> the port by just changing the pointer.
>
> How about that?
That's more useful than what I was hoping for, which is hardly a bad
thing.
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