Hi Douglas, On 8/19/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> almost wrote:
Perhaps the OP can restate her needs and we can help her make a reasoned > choice without it becoming a religious issue. > OK. I have a hard time to remember all those command line options. So whenever I have to accomplish a task multiple times, I write a script for it in ARexx. Arexx is also capable of opening windows to request user input, eg. a window with some options. I could not find this possibility in Linux/Rexx. So I was looking for another language and found Python capable of doing so. Here's an example: I've written a script in ARexx for creating mp3 files. It has a couple of modes: Scale - 192kbps - 256kbps - Cancel. So when I run this script, it opens a small window with these four options and I just have to pick the one I need. Then it opens another window to select the directory where I have my .aiff files stored (it defaults to ~/mp3/work). I find this much more comfortable than eg. typing: rx mp3conv.rexx 256kbps ~/mp3/work Even better: I run this script from within my dir util (DirOpus == Konqueror), so I don't have to type anything. But I have a second question: Is there a programmable text editor available (with a nice GUI - not something like emacs where I have to remember all those ctrl+shift+left-alt+m commands) that I can completely control from within a Python script? Greetings, Manon.
