On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:18:57 PM UTC-5, Joshua Landau wrote: > >> [...] >> GUI is boring. I don't give a damn about that. If I had it >> my way, I'd never write any interfaces again (although >> designing them is fine). Console interaction is faster to >> do and it lets me do the stuff I *want* to do quicker. > > And are you willing to provide *proof* that the console is > faster? Or is this merely just your "opinion"? I would be > ready and willing to compete in a "Pepsi challenge" to > disprove your claim if needed. For instance, if i want to > open a text file on my machine, i merely navigate to the > file via my file browser interface, using clicks along the > way, and then the final double click will open the text file > using it's default program.
Also - Show me an efficient way, with a GUI, to invoke any file with any program with any parameters, without cheating and using something like Alt-F2 to enter a command line. Your solution must be utterly generic. I need to be able to tail -F and tail -f a file. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list