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It's perfectly possible for a GUI to have a command history, if the GUI is just a front end to a CLI. Then you can click around when you want to explore, and ca
by Dewie 12y ago
It's perfectly possible for a GUI to have a command history, if the GUI is just a front end to a CLI. Then you can click around when you want to explore, and can go to over to the CLI when you know what you want to do and want to establish a more streamlined workflow. Or even click around and do stuff, and then extract a script from that recent history of clicks and interactions.
Some R (programming language) GUI frontend does it in this way.
- a3n 12y agoNot sure why, but I'm reminded of the old WordPerfect dual mode, with rendered text on top and raw mode on the bottom. It was a little annoying because sometimes that was the only way to get something done, but it was also fairly powerful. It would be kind of cool to have gui interfaces (including the general desktop gui) have something like this dual mode.
- Gracana 12y agoSome CAD programs do this. You could execute a command with fully defined parameters to make something happen, or maybe you'd execute the command and enter the parameters by selecting things in the GUI when prompted. It is a very powerful way to work, but the learning curve is often steep.