menuitis

/men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with

an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.

Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the

flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces,

especially those customisable via macros or a

special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks.

See user-obsequious, drool-proof paper, WIMP, for therest of us.

[Jargon File]

(1994-12-02)