Yann, That's an interesting approach. However, in a number of so-called "serial verb" languages, such as Chinese, it is quite unnatural to repeat the pronoun "it" after every step and, in fact, there are different grammatical mechanisms for "chaining" verbs.
More exploration of the possible different kinds of approaches languages take would be required to build a command chaining mechanism that could possibly be localized in the future. m > > > Hi, > > In common human language, the "direct object complement" (not sure of > the translation from french) is often used in an implicit way, and > changes along the sentence. For example, if I say "Translate this, > encrypt it, and send it to [email protected]", "this" means "what I > show/have selected", the first "it" means "the result of previous > translation", and the second "it" means "the result of previous > encryption". What about implementing an implicit mechanism that would > allow "it" to change each time a command is executed ? > > Bye, > Yann > > > On 15 juin, 15:38, Christian Sonne <[email protected]> wrote: >> Currently, I'm afraid it's not possible to pipe commands, however the >> feature is very high on our wanted-list. >> >> Unfortunately it is not a specifically easy thing to implement as >> it makes >> parsing much more difficult (unless you require some weird piping >> character, >> but this is not how we want to do things - natural language is >> paramount.) >> >> -- cers / Christian Sonne >> >> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Yann Lossouarn >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hello, >> >>> I look for a way to "pipe" the result of a command to another, but >>> did >>> not succeed yet. I can't imagine this is not possible, as this is >>> the >>> kind of things that is very intuitive, in natural language. For >>> example, "map this and email it to [email protected]"... Is there a >>> way to pipe ? Of not, is it planned ? >> >>> Bye, >>> Yann > > -- mitcho (Michael 芳貴 Erlewine) [email protected] http://mitcho.com/ linguist, coder, teacher --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ubiquity-firefox" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubiquity-firefox?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
