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| • Chaining commands: | ||
| • Saving open windows: | ||
| • Querying project switches: | ||
| • Querying switches interactively: | ||
| • Redirecting the command output: | ||
| • Processing the tool output: |
The user has now specified the default switches he wants to use for the external tool. Spawning the external tool can be done either from a menu item, or as a result of a key press.
Both cases are described in an XML customization file, as described previously,
and both are setup to execute what GPS calls an action, i.e. a set of commands
defined by the <action> tag.