Re:Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
by eldelshell on Sunday August 24, 2014 @12:56PM
(#8219004)
I too was expecting something like what you describe but by parsing -h --help output.
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Re:Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
by gioele on Sunday August 24, 2014 @02:10PM
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The bash-completion script can deduce which options are supported by an application by parsing the output of --help and of usage lines. In Bash.
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/bash-completion/bash-completi...
Re:Gooey: Turn command line programs into GUI applications
by DennisP on Sunday August 24, 2014 @02:37PM
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Either way, it might be neat to do it dynamically, so command-line programs could be turned into guis live by typing "guify xyz".
The gui could have labels with the command options, and upon hitting enter they could close and send the command back to the command line, so you're learning the commands as you go.