On Sep 2, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/2013 1:36 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: >> It's things like this "keyhole interface", that caused me to be >> convinced that the GUI emperor has no clothes, and to turn to CLI-only >> development. > > One of the giant failures of the GUI interface, and that VS suffers from, > too, is when you need to do repetitive operations. > > On the CLI, I constantly use the history list, and I constantly write > throwaway scripts to automate what I'm doing at the moment. It makes > everything I do, no matter how obscure, only 2 or 3 keypresses. > > With VS, or any GUI, if there's not a button to do it, I'm reduced to: > > move mouse > click > move mouse > click Most editors these days have an option to record and playback macros. Does VS really not have this? > Sounds easy, right? It is easy. Now do it to 1000 photos. With a command line > tool: > > write a script that does it to one picture, name it cc.bat The problem I've encountered on Windows is that its default batch language is terrible. Any reasonable amount of command-line scripting requires either a different shell or ports of all the Unix tools.
