The "scripts" menu

[Richard Dale]

On Friday 17 February 2006 09:59, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Friday 17 February 2006 12:52, Richard Dale wrote:
> > >   - Remove the scripting support from KDevelop 3.4 branch.
> > >   - Somehow arrange for scripting plugin to be disabled by default
> >
> > I think we should get it working and add a few more scripts, not just
> > remove it.
>
> Do you volunteer to do this in time for KDevelop 3.4?
Well, I hadn't really noticed it to be honest. If I can make it do what the 
NeXT Edit app did, I will certainly volunteer. If nothing has been done by 
the release date, then I agree it should be removed.

> > The NeXT Edit app had a feature where you could pipe the current
> > selection through a unix command and that was very useful indeed. For
> > instance, select a list of words and pipe them through 'sort -u', and the
> > output would replace the selection. Of course it's very important to have
> > 'undo' for when you screw up, but we have that.
>
> As I've said, I'm pretty sure this feature is important, it's just I don't
> see any way to make it usable for KDevelop 3.4 and so it will make bad
> impression for users.
I'll look at what it does in a day or two..

-- Richard