On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Kishore Reddy <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to develop an Intellisense feature for the existing linux > command line interface. (it's not the command auto complete) > > For example: > when you type '*ls -'* at the prompt, you will get a drop down menu with all > available options like *l, a, c, s* etc along with the short descriptions. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > *$ ls - > l - long listing > a - lists hidden files > s - sorts by size > c - sorts by modification date > $ > *------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I've surfed for enough things and found that there is no such application. > If I missed anything, can you please tell me whether any similar work > exists? > If there is no such app, can you please tell what would be the feasibility > and / or usability for this work? and please put some references to start > with. >
Most commands (posix compliant) have the "--help" which shows the options with a small explaination for each. Specific to your example "ls --help" shows the comon options of ls. HTH -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
