Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)
by globular-toast on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:07AM
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This seems to be more about text-based user interfaces rather than command-line interfaces. I wonder if the author has considered Emacs? A lot of people think of Emacs as a "text editor", but that's far from the truth of what it is. It's really a Lisp interpreter and toolkit especially designed for making text-based user interfaces.
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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)
by yourapostasy on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @08:24AM
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It looks like the problem space the author is addressing is broader than Emacs; they seem to want to make TUI's one of many different, first-class-citizen presentation layer options, interacting with many different input mechanisms. A Lego approach to UI frameworks basically as far as I can tell.
It would be interesting if there was an Arcan-philosophy UI framework in CL for an updated Climacs on top of a bare metal Lisp environment, for a turtles-all-the-way-down CL experience. It would open up interesting interactions with Emacs that are an unreasonably big pain to implement today, like buffers that manipulate view ports into observability data under a pluggable UI that renders graphically a graph data-oriented view of the discovered structure of the data under an investigation taking notes into a Jupiter-like notebook with rich multimedia data, for instance.