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I generally agree with Lucas' sentiments re GUIs and in his other article "In Praise of Plain Text." But I currently select portions of text with a mouse by hi
by watergatorman 8y ago
I generally agree with Lucas' sentiments re GUIs and in his other article "In Praise of Plain Text."
But I currently select portions of text with a mouse by highlighting it, and then execute programs that
accept that selection as input.
I no longer am limited to entire text that would be written to StdOut or piped or redirected and so could be treated as complete text files.
I can currently select and execute programs in a GUI
in just 2 steps, using a mouse.
Admittedly, I integrated the <program to execute> into the GUI, but it was relatively simple.
To do this in Linux it looks like I would need to run
a port of Plan9's Acme or the Wily editor.
The port of Plan9 is way more than I need, so I will look at Wily.
Maybe there are some other Linux editors that will do what my GUI currently does?
- watergatorman 8y agoAnswering my own question, Geany has "Sending text through custom commands" and ability to add custom commands via "Send Selection to->Set Custom Commands" But it looks like this just replaces the selected text so it may be more for formatting. I prefer a new window to open so the selected text isn't altered. I know I can program vEdit+ to do this, but that is not Linux.
- watergatorman 8y agoYou need to look at TUIs (Text User Interfaces).