Does anyone know the history behind the "runner/quick finder interface"? Referring to this kind of popup-UI where you can enter commands or search for things:pic.twitter.com/eeg9WTDtGO
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This second flavour is newer, and perhape closer to search engines than traditional command lines?
supposedly unix autocomplete is a pale shadow of earlier systems (multics?) cc @rlyeh
Twenex (TOPS-20) had great command completion (IMHO far superior to bash autocomplete). The autocomplete in TOPS-20 was a reimplementation/extension of Tenex (from BBN) autocomplete.
It feels like a GUIfication of command line. Another precedent would be Sierra games circa late 1980s.
They had a “text box appearing in the middle-ish of the screen.”pic.twitter.com/sXqgyAlvHq
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