Autopilot for Mac

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• Great idea... poorly implemented.. Use it befor...

  Frank NapierMay 16, 2009

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  ...buy<br />This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This little app tried to implement a great idea that can boost productivity for people who type volumes of text while working on a mac. A feature that highlights this app is its ability to send highlighted text to a shell script as a parameter and get the result inserted back at the highlighted text. so a highlighted string of text like "calc.CtoF/42.9/" can be sent to a perl script as a parameter and the result of the perl text processing to convert 42.9 in Celsius to temperature in Fahrenheit would replace the above text to "109.2F". Makes it easier for us to concoct our own inline functions in a simple text processor. In theory it makes it possible to do text processing with the help of shell scripts and tries mimick a feature sort of like macperl support in Nisus writer to any text editor on mac. So it brings the power of text processing from perl, python or ruby to any text editor on the mac. In practice, when you try to send a highlighted text to a script such as a python or perl script, the application just quits. Contact the developer, you get electronic silence. Read the manual and it says go to the script forums on activata.co.uk website. Get there and you are greeted by a page saying "forum closed due to spamming". Fancy features. Not working. Need a good Mac Automation app? Get Quickeys 3.0

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