...How crazy would it be to try and make, like, a universal GUI for command line programs? Like, it automatically reads the help and man pages and assembles a GUI? Is that completely nuts? :/

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@Angle I like the idea, just backwards.
something that brokers the APIs/GUI hooks to provide a meaningful CLI

@evilstevie That requires that there *be* API/GUI hooks. Which would probably mean rewriting a whole lot of stuff. :/

@Angle ah. kinda sounds like we could solve this by skipping the whole code -> drawing step though

@evilstevie ...What would that look like? Like, gimme a worked example.

@Angle kinda thinking of going from gimp to imgmagick levels of silliness here.

but for *everything*

excel/google sheets?
spreadsheet -tab ExampleTab -cell A4 -value 25

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