On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:46:01 +0100, Sune Foldager cryo@cyanite.org wrote:
The way it is pulled off in emacs is due to its built-in language; I am not saying you must have a built in language to make it work, but it would probably be an advantage. Too bad AppleScript is kinda crappy ;-). Would be nice with a more powerful "scripting" language.
Happy to read this! IMHO writing applescript is too tedious and slow to get anything useful done, especially for text processing. Bindings to a real unixish scripting language would be way nicer... my preference goes to Ruby, but an ObjC API would enable more language-agnostic access (Python has Apple-provided ObjC support, don't know for Perl)
Also that API doesn't have to be so low-level as in Emacs to be useful... I don't need mail clients or games in TextMate ;-)
-- D