[Design] Command-line for dummies

[Ted Leung]

On Jan 6, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Interesting idea. 2 points though:
> - on the command language: looks like this needs to be very much  
> like the CPIA Scripting introduced by Donn. May be a level of  
> abstraction above it (enriching what Donn did basically with a set  
> of well thought out primitives to that user don't have to learn  
> Chandler's DOM and full fledged Python to do something) but still  
> using Python syntax, like having Python command line available in  
> Chandler basically

We already have the Python command line available in Chandler:  Test - 
 > Show Python Shell....  or Test -> Show Python Shell with object  
browser

It's not obvious to me that we want full python here -- it really  
depends a lot on the target audience and what the expected command  
set is.

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