From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 14:12:09 EDT
Hi Randy,
First off, the Python and Perl plugins are vastly
underpowered (this speaks much moreso to the Python
plugin and the Perl one, but still...)
Secondly, you cannot do what you're aiming for via
either plugin yet. It's planned functionality, but
it's not there and I don't plan on adding it before
2.0 is out.
Dom
--- Randy Kramer <rhkramer@fast.net> wrote:
> <please reply to a list (the list you are subscribed
> to) rather than me
> personally to keep the discussion going (if it gets
> started ;-) >
>
> Is anybody out there doing any scripting of AbiWord
> (in either Python or
> Perl)? (I think that's the right question -- I want
> to write some "macros"
> to run in AbiWord, as can be done in, for example,
> Word -- things like
> recording a series of keystrokes and then being able
> to play them back, but
> perhaps a little more complicated as I'd want to do
> things like search and
> replace and similar functions.)
>
> Can anybody point me to some good resources? (I'd
> have to learn Perl or
> Python, Perl could be a better choice because many
> of the things I want to do
> involve search and replace using regular expressions
> (but, I'd rather learn
> Python, I think).)
>
> The reason for the inquiry is that I've managed to
> write some macros for Nedit
> which can do folding of "raw" TWiki text files based
> on heading levels.
>
> I am now certain that I (or somebody else ;-) could
> write macros for AbiWord
> to do collapsible outlining (very analogous to
> folding) based on heading
> levels. (Collapsible outlining on heading levels is
> what MS Word does.)
>
> Plus, for anyone who desires an automated table of
> contents, if you collapse
> the outline of an AbiWord document, you have the
> essentials of a (the?) table
> of contents.
>
> The Nedit macros are at
> http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/NmTWikiFold.
>
> To avoid misleading anybody, I should say that:
>
> * the macros are (currently) only a subset of
> what I eventually would like
> to have (basically, they can fold the entire TWiki
> file to any heading level
> (1 thru 6) or unfold it completely, I haven't
> written a macro to fold or
> unfold a single heading or selection, or to do any
> promotion, demotion, or
> "moving")
>
> * the macros work fine without any modifications
> to Nedit, but the overall
> user experience could be improved by changes to
> Nedit (like (maybe) adding a
> toolbar, a specific folding view mode, etc.)
>
> * also, they are of the "brute force" type, not
> very elegant
>
> Randy Kramer
>
>
>
>
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