Star Revolutionizing the Command Line with Hotwire
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Nov 2007 20:24 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Red Hat "Colin Walters of Red Hat chaired a FOSSCamp session about Hotwire, a unique and innovative graphical shell environment designed to improve the command-line user experience. I've been testing Hotwire releases for some time now, so the opportunity to see Walters present his invention in person seemed too good to pass up."
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colinwalters
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2007-11-02

1. Provide types (classes) to represent many of the command-line "objects". Primarily these would be processes, files/directories...


This is already implemented.

2. Make it function as a minimal shell also.
This is also implemented, but I think you're underestimating how hard it is to do a shell.

3. The environment itself should be a Python interpreter.


Yeah, this is the strong feedback I got from the FOSSCamp presentation, and I have a plan to improve it. Once 0.600 is out, the road to 0.700 will focus on this.

In 0.599 you can press Ctrl-Shift-S to get a same-process interpreter where you can play around, and that will form the basis for doing Python in Hotwire.

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