Re: Questions
- From: "Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>
- To: "delmar watkins" <delmar merilus com>
- Cc: <gnome-gui-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Questions
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 07:43:09 -0400
> You could say things like, "list all files in my home". To parse that,
you
> would basically get rid of "in" and basically the command goes to "li -af
> /home/user" or "list all files /home/user"
>
> In other words, you would need a synthetic language, but it could act very
> "natural" because the syntax would be updated. Alo, the actual command
itself
> would be a real, "english" (or German, or French... or whatever) word that
can
> be abbreviated for power users, but is immediately obvious to non-power
users.
> Sorry, "ls" is *NOT* user friendly, and neither are its arguments.
If you think you can write out the rules, there are those who could do the
code around it.
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