Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs
by weberc2 on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:36PM
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Sure, but is that implied by "reify"? My understanding is that they are reified and thus it is possible to make a timeline from them. CLI commands are only recorded into a timeline because of shell history, after all--if you call a CLI from a different mechanism, does it become not-reified?
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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs
by digi_owl on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:29PM
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The underlying commands can still be logged.
Hell, often it is useful to launch a X11 program via a terminal as they will dump useful messages that way.
And said output can also be captured in logs elsewhere.
One example of such would be SMPlayer. This is a Qt based media player that wrap MPlayer (and more recently the MPlayer fork MPV). But you can still access the MPlayer CLI output by either launching SMPlayer from a terminal, or going opening the log window from one of its menus.