On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:27:32 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:30:55 +0200, Roel Schroeven wrote: > >> Steven D'Aprano schreef: >>> I can't think of any modern apps that use one character commands like >>> that. One character plus a modifier (ctrl or alt generally) perhaps, >>> but even there, it's mostly used in GUI applications. >> >> less, vi, info, top, cfdisk, lynx, links, ... come to mind. I suppose >> there are many more that I can't think of at the moment. > > I said modern *wink* > > But seriously... point taken. >
I uses some of them a lot... less and top is on the top of my list (pun intended). I sometimes used vi(m), although I never really liked it, but it's sometimes unavoidable. info is replaced by man. lynx and links... well I remember a time when I tried to install Gentoo on a VMWare, lynx/ links (I forgot which one) was a life-saver because I wouldn't need to get out to the Windows host every two seconds to see the installation instruction (I was new to Linux at that time), and that was on a VMWare, what if I installed it directly, not on a virtual machine? And as far as I know, it is impossible to implement a "press any key" feature with python in a simple way (as it should be). And if std input's character buffering is easy, it'd contribute a lot to command-line real time action games (and of course many other programs, but that is the first genre of programs that crosses my mind). PS: >>> modern != GUI True >>> commandline == old False -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
