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Re:Rich Command Shells by a3n on Friday October 10, 2014 @10:04AM (#8437698)
Not sure why, but I'm reminded of the old WordPerfect dual mode, with rendered text on top and raw mode on the bottom. It was a little annoying because sometimes that was the only way to get something done, but it was also fairly powerful.

It would be kind of cool to have gui interfaces (including the general desktop gui) have something like this dual mode.

Re:Rich Command Shells by Gracana on Friday October 10, 2014 @01:19PM (#8438936)
Some CAD programs do this. You could execute a command with fully defined parameters to make something happen, or maybe you'd execute the command and enter the parameters by selecting things in the GUI when prompted. It is a very powerful way to work, but the learning curve is often steep.