[ge-talk] Vision for a usable commandline

[Ronald Vos]

>
> I agree with Waldemar, an improved object-oriented command line shell
> isn't a project for Haiku R1 or R2, even if it is something we could
> make use of.
>

Valid point. However there's many ways the ordinary CLI can be improved. TBH
I don't have much experience with UNIX-like shells, but plenty with Window
XP's cmd.exe, and I think some little things would go a long way in
improving the experience. Not just tab-completion, but also small things
like icons for quick recognition of filetypes, copy&paste that actually
works from GUI to CLI (does the BeOS shell have that actually?), and
drag&dropping a file causing the filename to be pasted into the CLI. Or
clicking on a filename in a directory listing in the CLI doing the same, or
double-clicking to open it. Stuff like that.
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