Verve: Command line plugin

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Sat Feb 4 20:23:37 CET 2006


Erik Harrison schrieb:
> On 2/4/06, Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> 
>>Jannis Pohlmann schrieb:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>during the last three days, I've been busy on implementing an enhanced
>>>alternative to the current minicmd plugin for the panel. It's not
>>>intended to be a replacement, I just wrote it out of personal interest
>>>in GTK+, C and the magic of ThunarVFS (which is not used at the moment,
>>>but certainly will be).
>>>
>>>This plugin already features:
>>>
>>>  - autocompletion for binaries in $PATH and 'virtual' commands (via
>>>    <Tab> key)
>>>  - custom 'virtual' commands (see below)
>>>  - opening eMail addresses and URLs using exo-open (from SVN)
>>>
>>>Features to be implemented in the near future:
>>>
>>>  - command history browsing like in minicmd
>>
>>Done. I updated the tarball. You can now browse your already executed
>>commands via GDK_Up/GDK_Down (well, up and down arrows, hehe).
>>
> 
> 
> I'm taking a look at it now. Very nice, though I'd drop a copy of
> scons-local in the top of the tree, and add a makfile to drive scons,
> for ease of use

That's a good idea, perhaps I'll do this. I also could imagine dropping
SCons in favour of autoconf and co., but the whole environment and
project structure is so blown up with it. I don't like it.

- Jannis



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