Warp wrote:
> Fabien HENON <fab### [at] caramailcom> wrote:
> 
>>The point is that you always have to go to and back between the terminal 
>>and your editor.
> 
> 
>   With emacs it's easy to run povray with a keyboard shortcut (eg. alt-g
> or whatever).
> 
Same for Pyvon Ctrl+g

> 
>>It sometimes saves you from typing a '120-letter-long command line in a 
>>terminal with the inherent mistakes you might do.
> 
> 
>   It's not like you have to type the whole command every time. Shells usually
> have a command history.
>   Besides, what type of parameters you give to povray which take 120 characters
> and which you can't put in your .povrayrc?
>   When I have to write the rendering command for the first time (ie. it's
> still not in the command history), it's usually something like
> povray fil<tab> +sp8
>   That's about 16 characters.
> 
I have hardly exaggerated. What a hassle when you have to type a command 
that does not correspond to your .povrayrc : You have to scroll your 
cursor all the way every time you want to change a single parameter:

This is the latest command line I used for an animation. The file is 
taken from Gilles Tran Maketree macro which I modified for the camera to 
revolve around a tree.

povray +iextree3.pov +kff40 -p +kc +a0.1 +am2 +w640 +h480 
+o/mnt/win_e/temp/arbre.png +fn


I have about 80 characters in the command line above.


Here is a copy of my .povrayrc :


+w320 +h240 -f +dgt +p
-l/mnt/win_c/winnt/fonts
-l/home/fabien/povray-3.5/include





Fabien

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