Meet Carla Shroder's New Favorite GUI-Textmode Hybrid Shell, Xiki

New submitter trogdoro (3716731) writes with an excerpt from Linux Cookbook author Carla Schroder's enthusiastic introduction to what looks like a tempting tool, combining elements of GUI and text-mode interfaces: Command-line lovers, allow me to introduce you to Xiki, the incredibly interactive, flexible, and revolutionary command shell. I do not use the word "revolutionary" lightly. The command shell has not advanced all that much since the ancient days of Unix. Xiki is a giant leap forward. If you're looking for the Next Big Thing in FOSS, Xiki is it. It's not the first tool meant to combine text and graphic interface, but from the screencast demo, Xiki looks like it gets a lot of things right.

Re:Not convinced

[Noah Haders]

Solution: use natural language to tell the computer what you want to do. "Copy myfile.txt to mydirectory." "Change my password from old to new." "Change the file permissions on myfile.txt so anyone can read or write to it."

first you have to say "OK Google" (or "hey SIRI" if you're a hiptard)

Re:Xiki Sucks..

[Anonymous Coward]

It smells like hipsters.

Re:Onions have layers...shells have layers?

[jrumney]

...which is run from within my editor of choice, emacs.

...which I run in a shell.

You seem to be confused about the program that emacs is replacing. It is not replacing vi, it is replacing init. Once you realize that, you will find it perfectly natural to run your shell inside Emacs.

Re:Not convinced

[phantomfive]

And what can't be done with a .bat file?

Every time I have to write a .bat file, I consider whether it would be more comfortable to stab myself with a fork. After I am done, the answer is always that I'd rather have stabbed myself with a fork.

Re:Not convinced

[smittyoneeach]

You probably aren't using enough Object Oriented Programming. I mean, XML. I mean, Agile Methods. I mean, Big Data. I mean, Cloud. I mean. . .