Re: [Evolution] CLI in the GUI

["Sourav K. Mandal" <smandal mit edu>]

""Tom Musgrove" <TomM pentawall com>" wrote:

> Many Unix users desire the efficiency of the CLI, whereas a GUI often has a
> much shallower learning curve.  Thus I propose the following...

Yes!

> A widget that is the equivalent to the command line, where one enters
> commands in it just as any other command line interface.  

Can you create a terminal version?  Seriously, I would like 
scripting capabilities external to Evolution, no matter what 
language it's in.  This way, things can be done unattended by power 
users.  Perhaps Evolution and the terminal tool, say "evoctl", could 
communicate via a pipe or IPC..  Or, say when Evolution is not 
running, evoctl could be a front end to capabilities in Camel.

Caveat:  I am new to Evolution, and some of my ideas might not be 
self-consistent or feasible.

Regards,

Sourav Mandal


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Sourav K. Mandal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics
http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/

"In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than
efflorescence of language. We must be simple, 
precise, terse."

                      -- Edgar Allan Poe, 
                        "The Poetic Principle"



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Sourav K. Mandal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Physics
http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/

"In enforcing a truth we need severity rather than
efflorescence of language. We must be simple, 
precise, terse."

                      -- Edgar Allan Poe, 
                         "The Poetic Principle"