On Friday, November 22, 2013 8:24:06 PM UTC+1, Jacob Peck wrote:
>
> On 11/22/2013 2:12 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote: 
> > Jake, would you please elaborate on your objection to "command line"? 
> > 
> > Conceptually for me that is what it is "Leo's command line". If 
> > anything I would like to see it become even more of a command line 
> > than it is now, with command history etc., like vim. (For what it's 
> > worth vim calls its equivalent a command-line, 
> > http://vimhelp.appspot.com/cmdline.txt.html#Command-line) 
> Huh, I always thought Vim called it 'command mode' without a name for 
> where you typed the commands in (since *all* keyboard output is 
> redirected there while in command mode, there doesn't really need to be 
> a name, does there?). 
>
> Anyways, command line to me indicates the interface one uses within the 
> OS shell of their choice to manipulate a program's behavior. The place 
> where one types flags and provides arguments.  This doesn't mesh well 
> with the idea of the minibuffer, unless you're considering Leo a shell 
> on it's own, and the commands you're firing to be mini programs... which 
> makes a lot of sense, now that I think about it. 
>
> How about 'the Leo Shell'?  This encapsulates all the good ideas and 
> prevents the weirdness of 'minibuffer'... 
>
> Also, I agree, it needs history, etc.  But more like bash, IMO, than 
> vim, really. 
>
> -->Jake 
>


That would be nice. But don't forget that implementing a shell would be lot 
of work; changing the name would be a snap. We shouldn't loose the focus of 
this thread.

--Reinhard
 

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