[Chandler-dev] Natural language parsing in Chandler

[Grant Baillie]

On Jun 12, 2006, at 11:13, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Sounds like a good plan to me. I'm glad to see that you're thinking  
> in advance about the i18n issues that such a feature will raise.
>
> Step 1 would have an immediate use and we have some clues on how  
> this can work thanks to Bear and Bryan (who added the "military  
> time" parsing recently in the date field).
>
> On step 2, when we discussed CLI (Command Language Interface) UI  
> long time ago, Lisa suggested to use the same field as the search  
> field for this. i.e.:
> - type "whatever": searches for "whatever" in the repo items
> - type "/command x y z": launches "command" with the parameters "x  
> y z"
>
> The plus of course is that it prevents clutter on the screen. The  
> minus is that it's not super discoverable. I personally think the  
> plus overcome the minus in this instance but that needs to be  
> discussed.
>
> Such a list of commands has never been specified or even discussed  
> but it looks like your "/event" and "/task" could be the first 2 ones.

For some history/background on the CLI UI, see:

<http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/QuickItemEntry>

--Grant