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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

> > It depends on what you want exactly: currently, an action just 
> > executesan action; it does nothing with the result. I have the 
> > impression that you
> > want TeXmacs to do something with the result; please explain more
> > precisely what.
> 
> I would like to see some result of that action. For example when you 
> made "urpmf apache" you get  list of the directories where apache is 
> installed on Mandrake. So If I can see the list or know in some way 
> that you get a non-empty string for that command, you're probably right 
> on the apache installation as a prerrequisite. You can made some other 
> things like unpack a tar.gz or modify a configuration script for a 
> program, so the executable document explains what to get, and indeed 
> you can make what explanation says just click on the proper phrase.

I agree that all this would be nice and we indeed plan to implement
things which go into this directions. But: what do you mean exactly
by "see the result"? Output it to stdout? Insert it into the document
(and thus modify it)? Show it on the footer? Etc.