--- "Monty J. Harder" mjharder@gmail.com wrote:

On Jan 20, 2008 8:25 AM, Leo Mauler webgiant@yahoo.com wrote:

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Interesting, I hadn't thought of a tool which created the command line text for you to cut-and-paste into a window, but it is a good idea. I suppose it is roughly what I had in mind in the first place, as all I envisioned was a GUI which stepped in, made selecting command line program options easier, and then ran the complete command line command as the GUI exited itself.

There's nothing about what you just said that requires a GUI. ChUI works well, too. (Isn't that right, Hal?)

The program could be written to run in a character-mode environment, so that it would run equally well in an xterm. Maybe even better, if it were mouse-aware. An additional feature that could be really helpful is to save the command in a small script in the user's home directory, whence it could easily be re-used.

Personally I just want something which prevents the need to look up the command line options every time I want to try something different. That would suffice for mencoder and transcode. However, the GUI was to be for my friend with his interest in Astrolog.

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