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Apple had an interesting take on discoverability with AU/X and MPW: you could pull up a dialog box with the available options and descriptions. Unlike man page
by II2II 6y ago
Apple had an interesting take on discoverability with AU/X and MPW: you could pull up a dialog box with the available options and descriptions. Unlike man pages, you could select the desired options from the dialog box and execute the resulting command. It's not the sort of thing you would want to use often, but it was great for learning how to do things or to refresh one's memory.
- fiddlerwoaroof 6y agoIn zsh, I think Ctrl-/ pops up the manpage and then restores the command line when you quit (this may be just my config). It’s not as nice, but zsh’s line editor does implement everything you need to extend it with this sort of workflow