[ge-talk] Vision for a usable commandline

[Ari Haviv]

Before we get completely lost, i think the original problem was that
there was no easy way to send things to the "trash" or see what's
inside it, from a script. That trash would be so much more useful if
you could set it to empty after a certain number of hours, days,etc
and at a certain time.

Then there was the question of whether we can have file versioning,
file/folder  templates (like os/2), folder actions
(http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/) and indexing

On 1/12/07, Michael Phipps <mphipps1 at rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> Be chose bash because (presumably)
> a) free
> b) done
> c) probably best of breed for shell and simple scripting
>
> Personally, until I saw something better, I would be hard pressed to
> disagree. One direction that Be was headed in and looks similar to Monad
> was/is OpenBinder. Something to think about, although I am not completely
> enamored with it.
>
> Michael
>
> Ari Haviv wrote:
> > It's based on applescript which you need if you want to make your own
> > actions. It's an example of combining the visual approach of a GUI
> > with the linguistic approach of a CLI. It's this combination that is
> > most natural. left brain with right brain.
> >
> > Just like icons+text titles get you straight to the point (unlike
> > MacOS X dock or terminal)
> >
> > The problem with the GUI only approach is that you eventually end up
> > in a mess of menus, tabs and buttons to cover every possibility except
> > the one that you are interested in. But the GUI advocates point to the
> > archaic terminal or cmd.exe with its black screen and funky commands
> > and syntax and score an easy win.
> >
> > On 1/12/07, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornewald at haiku-os.org> wrote:
> >> On 1/12/07, Paul van Nugteren <pmvannugteren at eml.cc> wrote:
> >>> Limited audience?? Do you know automater from Apple on MACOSX? I think
> >>> computers should be made to do the work of people NOT being just a
> >>> different interface a let the user repeatedly do the same action on much
> >>> data.
> >> >From what I can see "Automator" is not a CLI application, so how does
> >> this relate to my previous argument?
>
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