World: r3wp

I have done some text placement calculation for my RT-style (rich 
text). Result is 99% Draw code.

Graham, you should have a copy of in on your HD as lecture-forum 
use it to show the posts (search "rtd-styles.r" or maybe "rtf-styles.r" 
if it's too old).

I really need a better way of indexing the rebol scripts on my drive. 
 Using the windows search tool finds far too many viruses :(

Do you have a recursive directory walker, ie. tree ?

I finally got around to making a nice little "command line" function 
FIND-FILE.
You can use it with optional arguments like this:
	find-file *.r    ; just lists all files with ".r" suffix.

 find-file *.r "rebol"   ; lists all files with ".r" suffix and containing 
 "rebol" 
	find-file * "rebol"  ; all files containing "rebol"
etc...

not currently.

Ok try this:

do http://www.lexicon.net/antonr/rebol/library/dir-utils.r
dir-utils/only [push pop] ; needed for tree

foreach [url words][

 http://www.lexicon.net/antonr/rebol/library/tree.r[tree] ; needed 
 for find-file

 http://home.wilddsl.net.au/anton/rebol/util/find-file.r[find-file] 
][
	foreach word words [set word get in do url word]
]

find-file *.r

push, pop and tree are pretty stable. Find-file is pretty new, but 
so far no problems. Find-file is short, so it's a good example of 
how to use tree.

I would expect you would just modify find-file a little bit to suit 
your purposes.

Anton, your demo is simply awesome. Just blows me away what you guys 
can do.

Anton - nice example .... I wonder how difficult would it be to get 
it working via shell environment, which is now available in all rebol 
versions?

Thanks, Gregg.

Pekr, what do you have in mind ?

I mean - complete shell wrapper, so I can use rebol instead of windows 
shell ...

your find-file function is really nice addition though ...

I don't think it's easy to completely replace windows shell. I use 
dir-utils and find-file for most simple file system tasks already, 
but I use windows DOS console for all those particular windows DOS 
things.

Pekr: doesn't call/console "cmd params" help?

I think maybe he wants transparent fall-back to DOS console, as shown 
before by somebody.

(I'm not going to do that, probably.)

anton, that is pretty neat. would you mind if I tried to integrate 
this with http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/old/msearch.r?

By all means.

yes, I meant transparent command-set support. It was just theoretical 
quesiton, I don't need it that much ...

If there was a console-mode REBOL perhaps we could use it as a command 
shell replacement.

iirc 1.0 branch used native console, but you know, native console 
in W9x did not feature even arrow-up list of already processed commands 
...

this is imo why RT came with native console. Nowadays, I do prefer 
separate console, but I would like to see better support for keyboard 
navigation, which is currently very weak ...

now the thing is, if we want to reinvent the wheel. I do remember 
very powerfull consoles (even with coloring modes) from Amiga days, 
and if we talk non X-windows Linux installation, we do want to use 
text based console anyway ...

having a separate console seems to me causes a problem with rebol 
processes that do not initially print anything on a console. the 
problem arises when needing to print to a console. where to go? If 
another rebol process is already running, the new process starts 
printing there, "merging" the two consoles and rendering the console 
useless.

I'd like the option to use a native console. I'm frequently using 
Windows remotely and that can be a little awkward to do cross-platform, 
and can be high bandwidth as well. The NT console is powerful enough.

yes, at least it can jump by words :-)

as for Windows, I am used to own graphical one. And how do we get 
cross-platform console, which behaves the same way, if not having 
rebol own one?

Windows console apps can run on some other platforms as well, where 
GUI support is spotty. They integrate with batch scripts better too.

but then maybe someone writes async visual console as Cyphre did 
some time ago ...

pekr, yes it would be interesting to see a console written in View

Henrik, Cyphre's vconsole is still available on his rebsite.

I can run Windows console apps on DOS, for instance.

why the amiga console was so powerfull and windows is so weak? it 
even can't use tab to form form commands ... without that feature 
I am agains using native windows console ...

arrow-down does nothing too - it should discard the input .... it 
is a bad joke, not a console ...

the windows rebol console has one thing I hate.... when you type 
in a long sentence and accidentally press arrow-up, the sentence 
is lost

Hey, I just want as an option, like a seperate build or something. 
What Windows are you using? Sounds like you need doskey.

yes, that is bad ...

Win2K .... talking the standard ...

Win2k has tab completion and arrow keys cycling through your history, 
doskey built in.

rebol native console is not perfect, but I do remember that old 1.x 
days and unless windows console provides better experience, it becomes 
denerving pretty quickly .... slowing you down ...

tab completion? where?

Search for TweakUI on Microsoft's site.

It just changes an existing registry setting, but it is easier.

I don't want any TweakUI - I talk about what comes with os as default 
.... I want to use rebol on many machines and am not willing/nor 
I will not be probably able, to install TweakUI on each of them ....

will look at TweakUI though, I use windows console often ...

Well, I want native console mode REBOL to integrate with other console 
mode apps and scripts, and for when I am already in console mode 
and need to do something without switching to a GUI. When I am in 
GUI mode already, the existing console is fine. I need both.

the problem with TweakUI is that it's a tool that makes windows usable 
:-) one has to wonder why MS engineers would write a tool to remove 
a lot of the nuisances in Windows, if Windows is already so great 
:-)