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Hello Christian,

> My dream
> would be a console in gschem (or standalone) for executing our own
> scriptlets directly on the life data.
 
When using gschem try hitting the ':'-key, voila a console! Now you
need to brush up on your Guile coding skills...

> I'm no fanboy of lua, but with an standartised, scriptable data
> format, adding a custom netlister or other small housekeeping jobs
> like autonumbering, autoslotting should be straightforward. 

For autonumbering use the script named "auto-uref.scm", to activate
it use a hook. For an example see your gschemrc file, find "hooks" or
"add-hook!".

When writing those custom netlisters or other scripts you need some
Guile knowledge. My guess is that I need to find a Python tutorial, it
is much quicker to teach myself Python than teaching others Guile.

 Bas
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