A Bit OT: Making the Command-Line Friendlier (DOS-Background, Long)

[Samuel Thibault]

Krister Ekstrom, le Tue 10 Oct 2006 14:13:09 +0200, a écrit :
> > But once learned, this is a very efficient approach.  Yes, it means
> > learning.  Well, yes, bare unix will probably be for programmers for
> > long.
> > 
> Yes and it's sad because unix/Linux is a powerful system but unless it
> doesn't get user friendlier, which it works on, it's gonna be kinda hard
> to convinse windows folks to leave Windows... 

I'm talking about unix, not gnome.  You can very well be a windows folk
using a GNU/Linux system through gnome, you won't need to have the
unixish way of thinking.

> Where can you obtain this? I checked but Ubuntu didn't have it.
> On another not, would it be at all possible for Brltty to have some kind
> of option to track other cursors than the standard system cursor, for
> example the soft cursor found in MC?

The problem with "soft cursor" is precisely that it is "soft": only MC
knows about it.  The correction is quite simple: just have MC route the
"hard" cursor just like the "soft" one. That's precisely what AMC does.

In general, if a text application behaves like MC, just send an email to
the author, it will probably not be very hard to fix that.

Samuel