Mac Command Line Utility
This is an open request to the Cocoa development community. I use the command line frequently from day-to-day because it affords me much greater power and flexability than the simple mouse-driven “Finder” application. Unfortunately it’s ugly, and difficult to learn/remember. I’d love to see an application that could make keyboard-driven computing mainstream in the modern age. Who says a “command line” is the only way to view keyboard-driven interfaces?
Desired Features:
- standard Cocoa graphics/interface
- can be driven with mouse, but also fully functional with 100% keyboard access
- current directory displayed in window title
- typing a command reveals its description/syntax from the “man” database for quick reminders
- when typing arguments, each argument’s description is made visible, and others are visible in a dropdown
- many plain-english aliases pre-configured (e.g. “list” == “ls”)
- command result can be viewed as icons (shown above), or selectable text (like Terminal)
- command line apps like “vi” open in a new window, and appear in dock as a separate application
- “help” menu contains command hints, relevant “man” pages, documentation, etc
- option to record commands to a script file
Thoughts? Suggestions?