On Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 16:36:11 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 3 September 2013 07:04, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> 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
move mouse
type
move mouse
click
type
to get something done. And if I want to do it again, I have to
repeat that
process. After the 10th time, it's gaaaaahhh I hate it and go
back to the
CLI.
I scan a lot of photos. I have a GUI photo editor. A common
thing I do is
straighten the photos, because they never go through the
scanner straight.
So it's:
right shift click on the picture
select open with
select photoeditor
select edit
select rotate
select autorotate
select apply
select save
select exit
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
do:
dir/b *.jpg >doit.bat
open the file and use the macro feature to prepend "cc " to
each file
name, maybe 10 keystrokes
execute the script
Done! And CLI Clint goes and surfs the n.g. while GUI Gus has
just gotten
to picture 4, only 996 more to go!
Visual studio has macros. Ctrl-Shift-R, do your repetitive task,
Ctrl-Shift-R, then hit Ctrl-P and it'll repeat what you did as
many times
as you like.
I use this all the time. I barely touch the mouse in VS, and
GUI isn't very
good.
But can the macro feature actually figure out which files you
want to rotate (as in the above example). If you still have
interact with the File Open Dialog 1000 times are you in any
better shape? Even if you have a shortcut to the other steps?
