On working with consoles/terminals in Sodbeans

Folks,

Work is proceeding steadily on the sodbeans project. We are "nearly"
complete with our debugger windows and are steadily finishing up the OOP
implementation of our custom programming language. While there's quite a bit
of work to do, my team is now looking for some ideas on what would make
working with "consoles" easier (e.g., the command line).

One of the ideas that we are going to implement, for sure, is making our
console reversible, so you can always back up what was output to a previous
point, just like the rest of sodbeans. We're also looking carefully at what
kind of audio should be output and are integrating this console directly
into netbeans. A few questions though:

1. When using a terminal, is there anything about it that makes interacting
with it difficult?

2. What kind of features would you like to see in the terminal that you
think would help alleviate the problems?

As always, everything we are working on is open source and freely available.
We're highly open to ideas, suggestions, and feedback. Of course --- if you
want to submit a patch or get more involved; we're open to that too.

Andreas Stefik, Ph.D.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science

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