On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: > My favorite current challenge for an IDE designer is > concatenating text files. This is a one-liner, even with cmd.exe, > but I don't even know how to do it in Explorer. I'd have to use X > number of text editing sessions.
Good point! Or, more generally: HOW, with a standard point-and-squirt UI, do you invoke one specific program with two specific data files? Sometimes you can drag two files onto one program, but usually that involves two separate invocations of the program, once for each. In theory you could have a concatenator app, but how do you tell it when you're finished one concatenation and want to start another? Time delay? Seems clunky and prone to doing the wrong thing. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
