Re: [Usability] A Proposal for a new feature

[Reed Hedges <reed interreality org>]

One thing to consider is this: if you're typing at a terminal, ideally you would
be able to select options using the keyboard as well (even if interactively as
you propose). Taking your hands off to use the mouse disrupts this.  
"Tab-completion" for example does this really well. Even just displaying a few
lines of help text at the bottom helping your remember what to type would be
useful and it wouldn't interrupt the user's flow.

There is a shell (bash replacement) called zsh that goes nuts with tab
completion, if someone has set up a configuration for a given program.  For
example, you can tab-complete hosts when running "ssh" etc.

Reed


On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:13:06PM -0400, eigenlambda wrote:
> > From: Luis Quintela Garcia <luisQU web de>
> > I made a web-side  in order to explain this concept. You maybe like
> > to take a look of them at the following address:
> >   http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/~quintela/terminal/
> Those are not the tar options.  '-v' means 'verbose', as in,
> "verbosely list files processed".  '-f' means that the next argument
> will be a filename, and for tar to use that file, not stdin/stdout.
> '-x' means 'extract', not 'decompress', and its dual, '-c', means
> 'create new archive', not 'compress'.
> 
> In fact, where did you get that list of options from?
> 
> > please tell me your opinion about this proposal
> I will agree, it sounds interesting.  But it seems to me to be the
> equivalent of training wheels.
> 
> ~thomas
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