[rkward-devel] Commands from script editor and console history

[Stefan Rödiger]

Am Donnerstag, 20. September 2007 21:17:20 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
> Hi,
>
> could you take a look at this thread in the forum:
> https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4515229 ?
>
> The issue, here, is how to deal with commands that are run (through the
> console) from the script editor window. Should those be added to the
> console history, or should only commands entered directly in the console be
> added to the history?
>
> If think for single lines (such as Run->Run current line), the answer is
> probably, that, yes, those should be added to the history. I'm not quite
> sure about longer sequences, spanning multiple lines, however. For those I
> often found it rather convenient that they do not clutter the console
> history. At the same time, making a distinction between these two cases
> (single line / multi line) would probably be *really* confusing.
>
> Any ideas / opinions on what the behavior should be?
>
> Regards
> Thomas

I consent in terms of single line. Here a yes. But I don't like the idea that 
multiple lines are added. I case of need for a command it's easy to go to the 
script editor window and to run it again. Therefore I did rather say no for 
multiple lines. By why not make it an option (hey after all it's still a KDE 
tool, thus don't break the KDE-law of "One can never have to many 
Options" ;) ).

This is a good point to start another idea. What about providing some script 
templates. This might be very useful for educational purposes (with 
comments ...) (though I doubt that many people use RKWard in such area), for 
some routine tasks, to give user an idea what they can do with R, or to show 
some interesting scripts R/RKWard user created during their daily work.
A workflow might be:

1) push script editor window button
2) a dialogue pops up and asks if a script from the templates should be loaded 
or an empty window (or an option to never ask again)
3) user can start their work
4) if done it asks for saving the script

I know this is not really useful, something I could not code and by far not 
urgent but "neat" (actually that's the only reason I came come with to 
suggest it).

Regards

Stefan