[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-03-17 04:45:30 +0000, JF Mezei said:

> Since I have never been accused of being normal, I am allowed wacky 
> ideas from time to time...

If by "wacky" you mean extending the existing morass slightly, sure.

> In ios (the cisco one), typing ? on the command line gives you list of 
> options at this point of entering command:

Ayup.  Command completion, support for wrapping files and for 
objects[1] and combined with native piping support, iterators, 
replacing the existing stone-knives-and-bearskins of the HELP library 
interface[2], and the "wacky ideas" like a CLI-integrated 
context-sensitive shortcut into the HELP file.  All sorts of fodder for 
hauling DCL forward from the 1970s...

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[1] Objects are part of what .NET and PowerShell does, for the 
Windows-familiar folks.
[2] Something akin to Lynx would be vastly superior to the current 
navigation, and man and info both have decided advantages over HELP.

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