[geeks] DST hell

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
" 
" On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:11:17PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
" 
" > A GUI is a hell of a lot faster for certain classes of file browsing and
" > manipulation, so it is convienient then.
" > 
" > You use the GUI until it becomes a liability, and then fire off a shell.
" > 
" > Likewise you can use a CLI until it becomes a liability, and just fire
" > up your favorite GUI file browser wherever you currently are.
" > 
" > Most good UNIX GUI file tools work well with the shell.
" 
" I would like to see a unix file browser with a shell at the bottom of
" each window, with a cwd of the displayed window.  It could start out as
" 1 line, but be draggable to enlarge to numerous lines.

the mentor ui circa mid-'80s was like that, apparently accreted in
layers.  in addition to the gui menus and windows there were separate
cmdln and cmdhist windows.  it would pop the command template as soon
as you'd typed enough to distinguish, with options and arguments
colored to indicate which were multiple choice and which were freeform
input.  you could also see all this happening if you worked just with
the other methods.
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