Re: gEDA-dev: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk-at-NOSPAMfamilieknaak_dot_de>]

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:43:44 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:

>> A way to numerically
>> enter parameters of existing objects. E.g. position, line thickness, or
>> clearance. 

> The only thing you can't do from the command window specify coordinates,

Well, coordinates are the most important property to enter numerically. 
This would make it easy to design boards that really fit their enclosing. 
At the moment I do all kinds of workarounds with grid size and toggle mm 
to pt and back at specific.  


> and I suppose we could add that to Notify().

If the basic commands exist, the next step would be to provide a 
powerful, yet convenient interface. Right now, the CLI is a bit spartan:  
* no command completion, 
* no way to access help on specific commands (think man pages)
* wrong order in history. (should be LIFO, but is FIFO).
* history is not searchable
* history is reset at start-up of pcb
* no globbing ("*", "?")
* no scripting
* no user defined variables

Sorry, if I ask for too much. 

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