21 Jul
2020
21 Jul
'20
3:02 a.m.
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 4:21 PM Ed Carp <erc(a)pobox.com> wrote:
Except that it had a rudimentary option completion feature that was
sort of cool. When you typed "ls", for
example, it would pop up a
window that would show you all the options that you could select for
that command. That was new and different. Too bad it didn't stick
around.
I remember reading about something like that, though it's not connected in
my mind with A/UX. What I do remember is that you had to type "Ls" to pop
up the options window: After all, most of the time you don't *want* options
for "ls". On a text terminal, the top half of the screen became the
options window; its scrolling content was restored when the window was
dismissed.
The window had checkboxes corresponding to the options and text fields
corresponding to their values, if any. I can't remember if it parsed the
output of --help or equivalent, though. I also don't recall if such
commands were supported in pipelines, though I see no reason why they
should not have been.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
Samuel Johnson on playing the violin: "Difficult do you call it, Sir?
I wish it were impossible."