Your own human interface: Try Jef Raskin’s ideas at home

The verb of commands gives you a list of commands (note that Achy has acquired a concept of locked text, normally on a black background, and my attempt to type there automatically that I could type). While the available command suite was almost entirely specific to a publisher’s application, Archy aspirations as a more complete versatile vintage are obvious. In particular, in addition to several of the same orders that we have seen on the Mac, there are now special internet commands such as Email and Google.

Unlike the, where you must have changed them separately, orders in Archy are in fact small documents containing python extracts integrated into the same workspace, and Archy’s API is much more complete. Here is the Google command, which takes the text you have selected and transforms it into a Google search in your default browser. In the other commands displayed here, you can also see how the API allows you to obtain and delete the selected text, then insert or insert it.

Here, we will also take the Leap command (which you can also modify!), Select and copy it, then use it as a model for a new test called test. This will display a message to the user and inserts a fixed chain in the stamp. The command is ready right away; There is no need to restart the publisher. We can immediately call it – its name is already part of the completion of orders and execute it.

There are many sub-documents. In addition to the deletion document (now just called “deletion”), your e-mail is a document, your messaging server settings are a document, there is a document for formal Python modules that other commands can import and there are several aid documents. Whenever you leave Archy, the whole workspace with all your orders, context and settings is saved as a text file in the Archy folder with a new version number so that you can return to an old copy if you really jostle yourself.

Each dead end ends

Although they are functional examples and some of their ideas have been used (as briefly) in subsequent products, we have not yet seen a major return to modern platforms – but you can read everything in the main article. Meanwhile, these emulations and recreation gives you a taste of what could have been, and what it could take to make the IT devices more and more locked today more human in the process.

Unfortunately, I think many of us say that they are going in the wrong direction.