Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

> Man pages never have sat right with me; I would love to have a shell that can show me (intellisense?) the most common flags and options commands are run with.

Apple's A/UX (their Unix port for the Mac, before OS X) had a cool thing called Commando that did something like this. If you entered "..." in place of an argument to a command in the shell, it would invoke Commando to get the command arguments, and then replace the "..." with them.

Commando would bring up a dialog for the command that would list the various options and flags. There's a screenshot of the Commando dialog for ls here [1].

More complicated commands, like the C compiler, had tabbed dialogs with different tabs for things like language settings, optimization settings, debug settings, and so on.

[1] http://toastytech.com/guis/aux3.html




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: