Bug 391018

Description Anton McConville 2012-10-03 09:48:51 EDT

Naming
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Motion to rename 'Console' to 'Shell' to avoid confusion between a browser's integrated JS Console and Orion's 'Console'. This reinforces the ambition of providing a powerful command line 'Shell' for accomplishing scripted tasks - akin to a Unix Shell. 

Here's a user story for the shell:

As a Node Developer I want to run NPM and Grunt - and other Node applications, so that I can script without installing Linux and access/run my scripts 'everywhere' from any browser, so saving time, while enabling easy sharing and collaboration.


Input/Output
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Discussion of a desire to simplify the input/output of the current shell - to make it look and behave more like the JS Console. A more integrated input and output.

Observation that one line didn't feel like enough for typing commands.

Seemed easy for focus to leave the input line.

Consistency of completion behavior - right arrow completion - like the JS console.

Consistency of font style/theme - it differs from the font used by the rest of Orion.



Commands
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Desire for more commands - a big plus would be git integration.

Request for more 'shell' like commands too - like grep, . find [ if we're calling it a shell, it'd be nice if it lived up to the billing :) ]