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I think the best UI is a CLI-GUI hybrid; it has all the features of a GUI, so you can point and click if you want, but also a CLI you can type commands in. AutoCAD is one of the few examples of this that I think got it right; on the other hand, Photoshop is one of the applications I use regularly that could really benefit from having a CLI.


do you have other examples of GUI apps that have attempted this? (even if they didn't do a great job)

I just find this topic interesting. I haven't used AutoCAD in many years, so don't remember what it looks like at all. :)


The only other example I can think of are file managers (e.g. http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/applications/konqueror/cmndlin... ); CLI-GUI hybrids are definitely quite rare.


Pretty much any IRC application?




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