Let me mention MPW - The Macintosh Programmer's Workshop for classic MacOS. The shell was a text editor, just like the text editor for editing code. When you h

Let me mention MPW - The Macintosh Programmer's Workshop for classic MacOS. The shell was a text editor, just like the text editor for editing code. When you hit enter (or command-return) it evaluated the current line or selection. Command results were included in the document. (This was strictly a dumb terminal so there were no vt100 escape codes or such to mess up the display) If you were confused about the command arguments you could run commando (or use … as an argument) to bring up a GUI to select the flags. The Eddie text editor for BeOS and now MacOS X/XI/XII/XIII has a similar text-editor/shell hybrid. http://www.el34.com http://www.el34.com