katrinahoffert/easy-append

A simple and powerful text prepending and appending tool

easy-append's Issues

Create GUI

Design is:

Provide a verbose option

Additional output should perhaps only be displayed if --verbose is on. This is the output mentioned in #5 and #8.

Handling of malformed arguments by the CLI should be stricter

Create test for Controller

Blank line being added to end of modified files

Create distribution before starting work on GUI

Include a shell script for easy running of the program.

Allow charset to be specified

Create test for CLI

CLI should display output about what the program is doing

This would make it obvious what the parsed input was (as typos in arguments may cause undesirable effects).

A --dry-run flag should be implemented to perform this without actually writing the files.

Create --dry-run example

CLI needs a help option

Also, display help if a malformed argument occurs.

Allow addition text to be obtained from files

A command line argument is a poor idea for large amounts of text. An argument should allow providing a path to a file that contains the addition text.

Control should write each file immediately after applying text additions

This will increase performance by allowing file content to be garbage collected after it's read instead of waiting until all the files' text additions have been resolved.

Add option to not automatically add a line break

ie, don't put the text addition on its own line.

Allow specifying a directory of files to work on, instead of a file list

Should explicitly require a --recursive flag (shorthand -r) to allow acting on all files.

Update readme

Provide means for Control to notify view on write progress

Perhaps using the Observer pattern.

Update the CLI to use this. Should utilize #9.

Control should take in alternative base path to place modified files in

This will require a method to calculate a common path that all the files share (never deeper than the current directory and never shallower than the root directory). The modified files will then be placed in some alternative location, in a directory structure relative to this common base folder.

An option should exist to place all the files directly in the folder instead of in this relative directory structure.

The CLI will need an option for specifying this location.

Implement logging

Probably not until after the GUI is made, as it's not really needed with --verbose on the CLI.