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The Art of Unix Programming (Eric S Raymond, various editions) talks a lot about how to simply interface with the command line, STDIN, STDOUT, etc. I'm not exa
by valarauca1 12y ago
The Art of Unix Programming (Eric S Raymond, various editions) talks a lot about how to simply interface with the command line, STDIN, STDOUT, etc.
I'm not exactly sure if that's what you are looking for?
- abathur 12y agoIt will be hard to say until I take a look; thanks in any case for the recommendation. It's hard to speak specifically, because I'm interested in a broad array of design decisions per how you present information to the user. Examples of these decisions might be: how you decide what is an acceptable information density, how you decide whether to reduce or increase the space you're giving tabular elements, how to help the user track long lines, how and where to position information a mix of critical and non-critical information (where the non-critical information is still necessary for interpreting the critical data). Perhaps that helps?
- valarauca1 12y agoI don't think any real studies have been done on this, or any real comprehensive information. Its more played fast and loose by developers primarily by just copying what other people did before them that they liked. Really the terminal output isn't a place people look for inspired design, just give me the information I want and keep going.