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I'm going to guess you are making a joke, esp. the ctrl click to deselect. I did not even read the rest of the article, once I got to the word visual, I did a q

I'm going to guess you are making a joke, esp. the ctrl click to deselect. I did not even read the rest of the article, once I got to the word visual, I did a quick scan for an example, none found, came here to see what others thought. Second read, maybe u are not making a joke? While not mentioned, how would u automate that?

hollerith 14y ago
Since the times when automation is not necessary greatly outnumber the times when it is, "how would u automate that?" is not exactly a knock-out blow to the pro-GUI position. In other words, even for people like me who when asked, "how would u automate that?" would reply, "I'd write a shell script or some Emacs Lisp," it is IMHO often better to do it in a GUI when automation is not necessary. (No joking.)
- gizmo686 14y ago
  >the times when automation is not necessary greatly outnumber the times when it is That is only because most things that need automization have already been automatic. The advantage of cli is that when you need to automate something, the tools are already there, as apposed to needing to find a completly different set of tools, or manually do the same simple procedure a hundred times.
  - hollerith 14y ago
    >That is only because most things that need automization have already been automatic. That is not an effective response to my point that at any given time, the task I am doing probably does not need to be automated. Yes, CLI has advantages. Some of its advocates however seems to be blind to some of its disadvantages.
est 14y ago
I am not pro-GUI, just providing a possible solution the OP article didn't mention. For the automation part, yes it's going to need scripts, but can your oneliner script handle this file name like this? -\;?.txt I think using the best tools suited for the task. If you need scripts to do the job, use scripts, if just few simple clicks, I don't want to bother find exec xargs pipe here and there.

hollerith 14y ago

Since the times when automation is not necessary greatly outnumber the times when it is, "how would u automate that?" is not exactly a knock-out blow to the pro-GUI position. In other words, even for people like me who when asked, "how would u automate that?" would reply, "I'd write a shell script or some Emacs Lisp," it is IMHO often better to do it in a GUI when automation is not necessary. (No joking.)

gizmo686 14y ago
>the times when automation is not necessary greatly outnumber the times when it is That is only because most things that need automization have already been automatic. The advantage of cli is that when you need to automate something, the tools are already there, as apposed to needing to find a completly different set of tools, or manually do the same simple procedure a hundred times.
- hollerith 14y ago
  >That is only because most things that need automization have already been automatic. That is not an effective response to my point that at any given time, the task I am doing probably does not need to be automated. Yes, CLI has advantages. Some of its advocates however seems to be blind to some of its disadvantages.

est 14y ago

I am not pro-GUI, just providing a possible solution the OP article didn't mention. For the automation part, yes it's going to need scripts, but can your oneliner script handle this file name like this? -\;?.txt I think using the best tools suited for the task. If you need scripts to do the job, use scripts, if just few simple clicks, I don't want to bother find exec xargs pipe here and there.