| Re: [orion-dev] command line/console in Orion |
How will you deal with UI view updates if command line operations modify the data presented in one or more web pages?
jjb
As I mentioned on the call earlier today, I am interested in having a
sort of command line/console for Orion. The final solution to may tie
into Susan's work with the command framework and other work with a
debug console.
I initially mentioned this here,
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=366445#c7 but I think we
can get a better discussion on the mailing list before moving back to
bugzilla.
Anyway, my initial thought was that quickly navigating directories in
the navigator view is slow. It would be so much quicker and simpler
to just be able to type the full path somewhere like I do outside of
the browser. Similarly, git integration can be tedious as well.
Certain things, like compare and status require a nice UI, but the set
of git operations people reasonably want to do is enormous, and many
operations are easiest specified on a command line.
Cloud9 IDE has a nice command line. It provides full git integration
and allows any git command to be run (there may be exceptions like git
clone or git init, but at least most things seem to work). Also,
basic filesystem commands like cd, pwd, mkdir, rm, and ls all work
like you would expect. Furthermore, much of their node.js integration
happens on the command line as well (npm install, etc).
It would be nice to see something like this in Orion. I don't know
exactly what it should look like. But I have some initial ideas and I
think so do other people. It does seem to me that all keyboard
commands should also be available in the console. Or, perhaps a
better way of putting it would be that a subset of commonly used
console commands would also be available through keybindings. I
imagine that the console would be available as a slider from the
bottom of the screen. It should also be easy to hide when not in use.
In addition to being interactive, perhaps it would be a good place to
log events.
As far as things it could do, it would be nice if it would be possible
to do things like set up or start a site from the console, clone or
init git repos, open editors, and manage the filesystem. What are
everyone's thoughts on this? Are there any potential problems? What
could the UI look like?
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