Re: GnomeCLI

["Dan \"Effugas\" Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan "Effugas" Kaminsky <effugas@best.com>
To: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: GnomeCLI


>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John R Sheets <dusk@smsi-roman.com>
>To: Tim Moore <tmoore@tembel.org>
>Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
>Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 10:55 AM
>Subject: Re: GnomeCLI
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>>or store all the command-line option info
>>externally, for each tool.  The second option would lead to a
>>maintenance nightmare, considering all the different versions of
>>the hundreds of CLI programs that exist for UNIX...not to mention
>>the vast differences (POSIX vs. non-POSIX, etc) between UNIX
>>flavors, given the same tool!  If it's part of GNOME, it'll have
>>to be (potentially at least) pan-platform.
>
>
>Do man files have a standard form?  Could we extract command line options
>and descriptions from them?


Self response here, but appropriate:

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/lutterdc/software/wickel.html

Wickel is software that provides very easy to write code that generates very
usable CLI optioning.  Check it out--I think that the ability to right click
on a command in a CLI or to be able to bring up a menu of this style with a
keystroke is beauty itself.

Just the question...man -> wickel converters possible?