Zach, What I have been thinking for some years now is that what is needed is better command line based shells with less cryptic commands built out the more cryptic, with some emphasis on speech modality, like ability to have the whole interaction in a buffer that can be navigated forwards and backwards, by screens or pages at a time, or by many other configurable means. So yes, I agree, the current command line tools are super powerful but not easy to use, and much work needs to be done there. Basically we need something other than bash as the shell, with different ideas as to how command line should be interpreted, managed, and configured, and then better applications to run in such an environment. I hope to work towards this some day, but I am starting on a lower level trying to tackle how to get linux into the pocket so its not chained to your desk. -- Doug
