The advantage with tying it to X is that you don’t need cooperation from applications to make it happen. Apple also has this, with “GUI Scripting”; it’s not as good, and neither would my idea be, but it would give the Linux desktop scripting. We can look at making apps export an API another day.

With applescript, I love the way that given a program, it is reasonably easy to find the documentation. I love the ability to perform high level user-like actions. I’m less keen on the language itself, although it’s quite fun. I’d prefer to have a choice of languages but - oh dear - that involves yet another abstraction. i’d be happy to let that wait for a bit. Finally, it’s a pain when programs, such as Apple’s own TextEdit, have an inadequate applescrtipt interface. Try finding the current position of the cursor, for example. It’s that bad.

To me, applescript is the biggest thing to have come over the horizon since networking. It’s the html of inter-process communications. It makes it easy. I want it on other platforms as well. Badly!

It is a wrong comment by me, but I want contact you for an little help in your sorttable script.

Where I can find your email or other contact option?

Thanks