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Spurred on from some questions in the #komodo chatroom on IRC today, Eric dug into the question of 'how do I write text to the command output tab'. This ended up being a little complicated, but it works just fine and has my vote for eventual porting into the ko namespace:

http://community.activestate.com/faq/how-do-you-write-command-output-win...

I especially like this little gem:

I'm going to submit a change in the Open Komodo tree to add these and some others in hopefully next week, but in the meantime here are two very simple JavaScript macros for Komodo that I use all the time:

1. View about:config
   
   

   try {
       ko.open.URI('about:config','browser');
   } catch(e) { alert(e); }
   

2. View the error log in the watch window:
   
   

   var os = Components.classes[' [at] activestate [dot] com/koOs;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.koIOs);
   try {
       var appdir = ko.interpolate.interpolateStrings('%(path:hostUserDataDir)');
   	  
   
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We installed some traffic analysis software just int thre nick of time yesterday to capture what sort of traffic this site is getting. As you might imagine, our browser stats are heavily skewed towards Firefox, but there still seems to be a healthy portion of IE users, and an alarming chunk still using IE6 ( or possibly sending altered user agent strings )

I was looking for just the right song to describe today, but the best I could come up with is "Neat Neat Neat", The Damned, it doesn't exactly fit but at least it's got some energy to it :) The...

I was looking for just the right song to describe today, but the best I could come up with is "Neat Neat Neat", The Damned, it doesn't exactly fit but at least it's got some energy to it :)  The real music of the day is Open Komodo.  It's Open, it's Cool, it's Public!