COMPUTERS : LaunchBar
Where is an equivilent of LaunchBar for Windows?
This is a cool program you bring up with the equivilent of Windows-Space keys, and then type some stuff, and then it'll do something for you. For example, you might type 'word', then it will prompt you to find out what you mean by that (open M$ word?) and once you say yes that's what you want to do, whenever you type 'word' again it will open word for you.
No searching through hierarchical menus or whatever. In fact even tog likes it!
In addition I've been thinking about "Yet another command line interpreter". The thing I dislike about command lines is their obsession with text :) I'd really like to be able to specify objects and types. That way the command _knows_ it's getting an int. It _knows_ which parameter is which without reinventing the wheel every time. And you can do cool things like have a file selector thing that works like the ant selector with inclusions and exclusions, and can be used as an iterator inside the command.
Instead of just a text string.
Does it sound like I've been around Java to much :)
(boy I'm prolific today :)
This is a cool program you bring up with the equivilent of Windows-Space keys, and then type some stuff, and then it'll do something for you. For example, you might type 'word', then it will prompt you to find out what you mean by that (open M$ word?) and once you say yes that's what you want to do, whenever you type 'word' again it will open word for you.
No searching through hierarchical menus or whatever. In fact even tog likes it!
In addition I've been thinking about "Yet another command line interpreter". The thing I dislike about command lines is their obsession with text :) I'd really like to be able to specify objects and types. That way the command _knows_ it's getting an int. It _knows_ which parameter is which without reinventing the wheel every time. And you can do cool things like have a file selector thing that works like the ant selector with inclusions and exclusions, and can be used as an iterator inside the command.
Instead of just a text string.
Does it sound like I've been around Java to much :)
(boy I'm prolific today :)
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