IN circa 1991 - ne of the most heavily used program in the Unix class
we used to teach was a curses based help for c library functions
and unix commands
This was written by a student as his project and in my memory this was the
only project that continued to be used and even available after the batch
completed.
A bash completion style help system may be quite useful (?)1 - ie if I hit
Meta Tab
I am asking what this option means.
P Asokan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Prabhu Ramachandran" <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Suraj Kumar" <suraj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Linux User Group Chennai" <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Minutes of the Meeting - 12 Oct 2002
"SK" == Suraj Kumar <suraj@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
[snip]
SK> $ ssh <tab><tab> 171.64.67.68 203.199.197.48 64.38.242.11
SK> freeshells.org 171.64.67.72 209.15.95.192 66.54.4.34
SK> gpasokan.com 192.168.1.1 24.26.85.231 av.stanford.edu
SK> suraj.sytes.net 203.197.130.30 63.194.20.32 symonds.net
SK> $ ssh
These examples dont cover many things they are very rudimentary. For
instance do this:
find . -na<tab>
and you get -name. I ask so what? I also want to see what the name
flag means and how to use it (possibly with an example) etc. Is that
possible right now? No! It can be done with text and there is a very
nice Python interpreter (pure text - no GUI) that does something
similar but not as complete. Anyway point is the idea is interesting
and useful.
SK> Now is a GUI necessary? (-:
Yes, very much. In case you did not realize, the CLI is also a GUI,
its just that its all in pure text. The point is if you abstract out
everything so that any type of GUI is possible the whole thing becomes
more powerful. So on the console you use a curses based GUI or if
that is not available just use plain text. Otherwise you get a nice
GUI where you can select stuff, look at help, search for help, look
for examples etc.
cheers,
prabhu
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