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 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
