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> I actually do mean in-editor scripting. Like you need a smallish feature, 
> something that's almost as simple as you could do it from the actions, but 
> it already requires a loop and a few if's here and there...

If that includes specifying coordinates, then sweet :-)

> I've just installed 20140306 (was that the last snapshot?) to test it. 
> With the gtk hid, 'R' doesn't do anything. Report doesn't print length 
> info either.

Might be lesstif-only.  :Report(NetLength) for gtk.

> Sometimes I scale down silk text and it becomes unreadable because the 
> lines are just too thick. However, when I have larger text on the same 
> board, I want lines to be thick. This feature would allow the user to 
> change text line thickness independently of text size.

Ok, but the silk lines are also limited by DRC minimum silk rules.  I
find that that kicks in pretty quickly on small text.

> When I switched from autotools to scconfig, I didn't implement the 
> detection of lesstif.

Ah, ok.  I thought you did something to bypass the HID api in a
gtk-specific way.

> Let's face it: the lesstif hid is not very popular, most users go
> for the gtk hid.

True.  I'm probably one of the only lesstif users.  However, there's
also the batch HID that gedasymbols uses, and some day we should have
a Win32 HID.  There's at least one other GUI hid out there in the wild
too.