Benjamin Scott said:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> > I thought it would be cool if there was a GUI frontend for sed and for
> > awk.. if for no other reason to gain a better understanding of just what
> > these two tools are for and how they are used...
>
> I recommend the dead-tree front-end entitled "sed and awk", from O'Reilly
> and Associates. While it lacks flashy icons and clickable hotzones, it will
> grant a much better understanding of those tools. :-)
>
Actually, my front end to most of these tools is vim (emacs folks, go ahead,
the war can continue). Having said this, I spent the weekend with "Linux
Shells" learning some awk by writing simple scripts to sort files, etc. Most
people don't have or want the time to do this, they need to do daily
management of their home directories (I'm not talking about sysadmins or
programmers). Some basic tools that would enable them to make simple choices,
AND SHOW THEM THE COMMAND LINE EQUIVILENT (i.e. learn by example) would be
extremely useful.
One thing I'm still waiting for in any e-mail system that includes filtering
is a tie-in to procmail. Why write your own filtering module instead of a
front end to procmail (hm. Tie exmh to dotfile-procmail, since both are
tcl/tk?).
jeff
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Thought for today: clobber vt.
To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I
walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack." Compare
mung, scribble, trash, and
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