Re: Lisp/Unix impedance [a programming challenge]

Joerg Hoehle wrote:

> On UNIX, the best I've heard of is
> "netscape -remote url".


The problem is that on unix there are a range of
desktop environments with different abilities.
Note that particular unix desktop environments such as KDE
have rather more than that, you may be just using a *** one
- try "dcop" on the command line of a unix or linux box running KDE,
you can script some quite complex interactions with KDE applications.
It doesn't quite match the ability of Amiga ARexx, but it's not as bad
as you make out, either. Maybe as DBUS (see freedesktop.org) is
adopted by both KDE and GNOME, the support for such things should
generalise, at least if GNOME catches up to KDE a bit.

> it's still not possible (or it doesn't work out of the box on
> by Ubuntu/Hoary system

Hm. Remind me not to recommend Ubuntu to people, sounds
like it's inflicted with GNOME or somethng :-)
Funny enough, dragging a text document from the KDE
file manager onto a running emacs also works out-of-box
for me on Debian (and I doubt that's a debian-specific
property), has done for ages as far as I recall
though I've never been an amazingly huge fan of drag-drop
myself. Even back on the amiga of yore I tended not
to use it much unless that was the only way an application
author provided some functionality.








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