Greetings,

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Kishore Reddy
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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.
>

I think the OP specifically pointed out that. I guess the OP has in
mind something like the typical dropdowns that appear in yahoo/gmail
when you type in the "To" field.

As for me, I am not into development nowadays, so sorry.

But for dropdowns and all that fancy things you may look at ncurses library.

Regards,

Rajagopal
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