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  Re: POV-ray (text) editor for beginners  
From: nemesis
Date: 14 Nov 2008 11:39:53
Message: <491da9d9$1@news.povray.org>
Alessio Sangalli escreveu:
> Hi, every night before going to bed I teach a little bit of POV-ray to
> my wife.
> 
> The most annoying problem is that everytime she wants to see the scene
> she has to save, go to the shell, issue the povray command with some
> (for her) cryptic options and then open up an image viewer (or
> imagemagick's "display") to see the result.

Ever heard of bash history?  Up arrow key to access the last command, or 
CTRL+R + "word" to search for "word" in the history.  more CTRL+R to see 
older entries.

> PS I do *not* want a CAD-like or "visual" editor...

Why not?  Why impose such command line pain to your wife?  Women would 
certainly enjoy modelling with curves visually rather than typing like a 
geek.


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