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Re: [Chicken-users] new impromptu egg
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Mario Domenech Goulart |
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Re: [Chicken-users] new impromptu egg |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:46:29 +0000 |
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Hi Jason,
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:13:21 -0400 Jason Felice <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'd like to get this added to the egg index, please:
>
> https://github.com/eraserhd/impromptu
>
> And announce it. I'll document it in the wiki after it is in the
> index.
>
> But...
>
> impromptu provides an (edit-properties alist) function. This function
> formats the properties in a mostly-human-readable way and spawns
> $EDITOR on the result. It checkes the return value of editor and
> parses the result back into a modified alist.
>
> This is an old *NIX pattern for utlities that need several fields
> worth of data - it's a sort of pre-web-form web form. I'm using it
> here at Groupon to automate the creation of a JIRA ticket by
> pre-populating the most common values.
>
> Also, I much appreciate code reviews and ideas on how to make it
> simpler or more reliable.
Thanks for sharing your egg. I've added it to the coop.
Best wishes.
Mario
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