Yeah, but if you keep going you could say the command line is skeuomorphic just by being text: it's the digital equivalent to typewritten text. If you go furt

Yeah, but if you keep going you could say the command line is skeuomorphic just by being text: it's the digital equivalent to typewritten text. If you go further, you could say that the glyphs of the letters themselves are skeuomorphs, in the same way that icons are. When it comes down to it, buttons are a simple and effective interface, regardless of whether or not they represent some physical or historical analog.