Maya to output MEL commands

[leionaaad]

Maya was great before Autodesk. When you did anything it generated a MEL command so automation/scripting of tasks were fairly easy.
Well, Autodesk decided to obfuscate things and make it difficult.

For example, setting values in the transform offset parent matrix doesn't generate any MEL output.

They should. Anything you modify in the interface should be an actual MEL command.

[Alexx31]

Did you also activate "echo all commands"?  (just a question, did not test it)

[leionaaad]

No, I did not.

Echo all command has it's use, but the problem with it is that it echoes everything that is happening, including refresh of every menus, viewports and a bunch of other things that are relevant only in a few occasions.

But you see, Maya was consistent. I noticed this consistency is broken by Autodesk. Most of the new tools have no output at all. I think if you connect things in the node editor are also not shown in the script editor.