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TextWrap - A Gedit Plugin. TextWrap is a Plugin for the default GNOME text editor gedit, that gives you quick and easy access to the Text Wrap mode currently active (aka , Word Wrap, Line Break, Wrap Lines, Paragraph Wrap etc.) setting of the active document. It inserts an additional entry in the "View" menu for quick access and an icon in the "Toolbar" for even quicker access to it: Behaviour Textwrap mode is initialy set to the defaults set in the Preferences dialog for any document when opened as long it is opened in gedit.

TextWrap acts as a toggle for the whole Textwrap setting block in the Preferences (i.e. Download You might want to download the TextWrap plugin in an archive having everything and unpack the archiv to a place of your choice (your home directory is used herein as an example). Or if you know what you're doing you might download the minimal files needed directly: Install General procedure The procedure in commands (after download) Activate the plugin (optional): Pussy (aka Windows) Installation Contact. AppleScript: Beginner's Tutorial. The following online materials are exerpted from the Apple Training Series book AppleScript 1-2-3. Consider this chapter a “book within a book.” If you don't read any other chapter, read this one.

It has been designed to give you a quick but thorough introduction to AppleScript through a short, fun, hands-on tutorial. In 25 minutes you’ll learn what AppleScript is, how it works, and how to write basic, functional AppleScript scripts with confidence. To accomplish this goal, you’ll learn the fundamentals of AppleScript, and then put them to use as we step through the creation of a Finder Toolbar script, that you can use to instantly reset a cluttered desktop window display to a predefined window set.

AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of the Macintosh Operating System and many of its applications. How it works... Scripts are written in the Script Editor application, a free utility included with every copy of the Mac OS. The Big Picture Just remember this: Scripting: Your First Steps. By The Scripting Guys A long time ago, even before any of the Scripting Guys were born, people used to walk from one place to another. Not for exercise or recreation, but because they had to get somewhere. Those who were fortunate enough to have other forms of transportation could move along a little more quickly on their horses, camels, elephants, or whatever the local pack animal happened to be.

(And to those of you still using any of the preceding as your primary mode of transportation—we’ll be thinking of you the next time we’re stuck in traffic.) Then this thing came along known as the horseless carriage. Many people laughed. People today have experienced some of the same reactions to scripting as those people had to cars all those years ago. Step 1 This is the very first thing you need to know to start using scripts to manage your Microsoft Windows systems. Wscript.echo "My very first script. " Yes, that one line is a script. Surround the filename with double quotes. StrComputer = ". " Windows PowerShell Scripting. BASH Programming - Introduction HOW-TO.