The "scripts" menu

[Jens Dagerbo]

On Friday 17 February 2006 09:52, Richard Dale wrote:
> I think we should get it working and add a few more scripts, not just
> remove it. 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.

For the record, the "shell filtering and insertion" plugin in KDevelop can do 
exactly this.

I agree about scripting though. A powerful scripting mechanism would be very 
nice to have. Ian, can you pipe up and explain what your vision is for the 
scripting plugin? :)


// jens