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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? In defense of the command line Post 302547235 by KenJackson on Sunday 14th of August 2011 10:37:44 PM
Old 08-14-2011
In defense of the command line

Ever since the 80's, I've been appalled at how many people actually think the click-and-wait interface (GUI) is superior to the command line. I suspect that can be explained by most of them never having used any shell other than the atrocious DOS window, but it still amazes.

So I'm pleased to report that I found a very interesting blog post that I could identify with heartily. Here's a sample:
Quote:
The idea that language is for power users and pictures and index fingers are for those poor besotted fools who just want toast in the morning is an extremely retrograde idea from which we should strive to emancipate ourselves.

The problem with the user categorization narrative, is that it uses “it just works” as a cover for saying “people aren't capable” - for implying that millions of natural language speakers would be too intimidated by languages thousands of orders of magnitude smaller than the ones they use effortlessly every single day. It imagines that if we can find the right user-interface “metaphor,” everything will click.
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tkaeca(1)																 tkaeca(1)

NAME
tkaeca - GUI interface for aeca, using TCL/TK SYNOPSIS
tkaeca DESCRIPTION
The tkaeca command is used to provide a GUI interface to aeca(1). Its use should be self-evident to anyone familiar with Aegis. The top line of the screen contains button for selecting the project and the change. They will be defaulted whenever possible, using the usual Aegis defaulting rules. Click on the buttons to obtain a pick list if you want to change; then double-click an item to select it. (I would have used tk_optionMenu, but it doesn't have a scroll bar, even when all the items don't fit on the screen.) The middle section contains text entry areas, for editing the brief_description and description fields of the change attributes. The text wraps in a natural way, both here and in (say) the "tkaeca -list chand details" listing, so only use newlines to indicate end-of-para- graph. The lower section contains two boxes. The first is the testing required for the change - select as many or as few as is appropriate. The second a set of radio buttons to select the change cause - pick one. The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons do what you expect. The cancel button simply quits. The OK button runs the aeca(1) command - if anything goes wrong (e.g. asking for testing exemptions you can't have) then the error message will be displayed in the message area at the bottom of the window. OPTIONS
There are no command line options. It is best to run this command in the background. EXIT STATUS
The tkaeca command will exit with a status of 1 on any error. The tkaeca command will only exit with a status of 0 if there are no errors. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
See aegis(1) for a list of environment variables which may affect this command. See aepconf(5) for the project configuration file's project_specific field for how to set environment variables for all commands executed by Aegis. SEE ALSO
aeca(1) View and edit change attributes, from the command line. tkaegis(1) GUI interface for Aegis, using TCL/TK COPYRIGHT
tkaeca version 4.24.3.D001 Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Peter Miller The tkaeca program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details use the 'tkaeca -VERSion License' command. This is free software and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; for details use the 'tkaeca -VERSion License' command. AUTHOR
Peter Miller E-Mail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au //* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ Reference Manual Aegis tkaeca(1)
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