[Padre-dev] Input window

[Gabor Szabo]

Yesterday I had a chat on IRC with myself about a tool I am missing from Padre.
Let me discuss it here again.

Pure windows users please hold your anger for a minute.

I am missing the power of the command line. I believe that while it is
nice that we
(will) have menu item for everything we should also make it easy for people to
get around using the keyboard only.
In addition I think there are many cases when a command-like input window can be
much better than a mousy one.

For example it can provide history of commands

It can also be the input window for a Perl 5 or Perl 6 REPL.

It can also be reused as the command line part of vi or emacs.

I am not sure if we have a single input window, if  we can really make
it reusable?


In terms of implementation first I wanted to add a single line entry window
just below the editor pane but it seemed too much work to understand how
to add it to the AUi manager so now I have one which is just another
window at the bottom of the screen.

For now put it aside, I am not sure how to proceed.

Your opinion please

Gabor