[Gllug] Batch Text Replacement

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On 29 Oct 2007, Tethys verbalised:
> Your "nifty GUI" probably doesn't exist, and for good reason. There
> is no way you'll be able to replicate the power of the command line
> in a GUI. So perhaps someone has written a GUI tool to cover the
> common cases (I haven't looked, so I can't say). But a common usage
> pattern for one user might be a once in a lifetime activity for
> another. So which features should this hypothetical GUI include?
> And what happens when you want to do something that isn't covered
> by the features included in the GUI? With a command line tool, you
> can just combine it with something else that does the job (assuming
> your command line tool doesn't already include that functionality).
> With a GUI, you're screwed.

A lot of this would be solved if only there was some worthwhile GUI
metaphor for pipelines. I mean I still wouldn't use it (RSI has made
mice death for me) but everyone else might. :)

I heard rumours of a pipeline GUI metaphor being tried out back in the
80s, but can't find any info on it at all, not even what OS it was tried
with or where it was done, let alone what it was like. Do of the Old
Farts on this list know?

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