CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line

Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by satya71 on Thursday March 05, 2020 @10:10PM (#22500689)

This just reminded me of Emacs. There's not a whole lot of menus. All the available commands (also variables and values) can be searched and autocompleted. The initial hump is hard to get over, but after that things are so discoverable and extensible it's a pleasure.

I recently switched to VS Code for creature comforts that come from a much large ecosystem and using more modern OS affordances. VS Code gets close but not quite as pleasant as Emacs.

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by eequah9L on Friday March 06, 2020 @04:55AM (#22502324)

I wish LibreOffice, GIMP etc. had an M-x way of finding the commands, and a describe-function to ask what exactly a given command is doing. Or C-h b way of sifting through keyboard shortcuts, in just another buffer with search and everything.

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by chootisk on Saturday March 07, 2020 @09:04AM (#22511567)

GIMP has something similar, triggered by pressing /. I discovered it way too late, but I haven't touched a menu ever since.

Libreoffice has a feature request for such a function [1].

[1]: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91874

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by eequah9L on Saturday March 07, 2020 @02:56PM (#22513654)

Wow, thank you!

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Re:CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line by shouyatf on Friday March 06, 2020 @07:56PM (#22508905)

There is a similar thing for Blender: https://blender.stackexchange.com/a/40170

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