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Re: Kindershell


  • Subject: Re: Kindershell
  • From: John Delacour <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:31:39 +0000
  • Mac-eudora-version: 5.3a9

At 2:27 pm -0500 26/11/02, Paul Skinner wrote:

At 9:40 pm -0500 25/11/02, Paul Skinner wrote:
Has anyone else lost the ability to run a text selection as script using CompileAndExecute service since they upgraded to Jaguar?

Can you give an example to show what you mean?


Sure. Ed Lai released a package called Kindershell. It was basically 'do shell script' before 'do shell script' was available. With it he released a piece of code called CompileAndExecute.

Ahh. Before my time! I've just installed it in Jaguar and the answer is yes and no.

If I use a cocoa editor I can run a selection from the Do Script service, but the whole of my Services menu is missing if I use any other app.

It looks to me as though a simple 'run script [selection/clipboard]' would have the advantage over C&E.

As a simple example, if I assign a keystroke in Key Xing or a button/Function key in Eudora to the script

tell application "Eudora"
JJJJJJ get selected text
JJJJJJ run script result
end tell

and then select the line below and type the keystroke

display dialog "Hello"

I get two things that CompileAndExecute doesn't supply -- user interaction and ease of execution.

JD
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