On Sunday 26 November 2006 04:38, John wrote: > I thought that might be the case but where is the documentation? It might > tempt me to upgrade. > > On this general subject it should be fairly easy for a knowledgeable person > to write a shell script to do this sort of thing but novices do not stand > much chance. Showing my age - my first program written in the late 60's was > in dartmouth basic using a paper tape and a teletype. That language is the > most concise, complete, easily understood set of instructions ever > invented. Later prior to the pc it was extended to include file systems, > simple formatted output and some structured constructs such as whiles and > case statements etc and run on small low powered desk top micro's eg Z80 > and 6500 etc. Some of the basics were even user extendable all in 8kbytes > or less-True programming for the masses. Rather than specific scripts for > kmail as indicated here wouldn't a kde wide scripting language based on > that be a more sensible and generally more useful path to follow? Ok line > numbers and goto's are old hat but are on the other hand very easy to use > and can be understood by anybody. Following on from that Microshaft did > gwbasic. Again easily understood and capable of handling graphics. That > might eventually also be a useful further step in the right direction. The > linux scripts I'm aware of remind me of what I used to do with KED and > batch files on a dos box. A few letters to do what ever it was I wanted to > do. Productive but not easily understood by others. > > John KOffice has used a multi-scripting language extension called kross for it's extensibility. For KDE4 it looks like that will be made more desktop wide. This way if a plug-in for kross exists for BASIC, you can write scripts in basic. For now it supports ECMAScript and Python. > On Saturday 25 November 2006 21:09, Philip Rodrigues wrote: > > John wrote: > > > I need a little more explanation. Does this mean that the tags I need > > > are available or only in newer versions of kmail? Can somebody point me > > > at user documentation for these features? > > > > Hm, I'm not sure what version these features were introduced in - I just > > looked in my filter options. (I'm running recent 3.5-branch SVN). I > > suspect that these features are present in all 3.5 releases. Can't > > remember back to 3.4 (which it seems you're running) though, sorry. > > > > Regards, > > Philip -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. Sent from: uriel.tolharadys.net 08:26:36 up 6 days, 15:47, 9 users, load average: 0.00, 0.05, 0.04 ========================================================================= Volunteer Developer for the PhoeNUX OS open source project See http://www.phoenuxos.com/ for more information ========================================================================= Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
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