[mbork_pl]

This is fantastic. This is why I think non-professional programmers could (and maybe sometimes should) learn to code - to solve little (or larger) problems bugging them.

You might be interested in Emacs, which is an environment for manipulating text and creating text-based workflows using a pretty nifty language called Emacs Lisp disguised as a text editor. ;-) (Full disclosure: I am an author of an Emacs Lisp textbook, and a long-time user and fan of Emacs.)

And here is a somewhat famous relevant quote from rms:

> Multics Emacs proved to be a great success—programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program. (https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html)

[willthereader]

Thank you. I agree it's definitely useful to learn enough programming to solve personal problems. I'm impressed with how user-friendly Multics Emacs is. I think it's cool how you single-handedly thwarted Symbolic. It shows your strong moral fiber to stand up against them.

[mbork_pl]

Well, not me, of course;-). And Multics Emacs is long dead, the only Emacs that is still alive is GNU Emacs (well, XEmacs is still developed probably, but not many people use it, I guess).