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What kind of GUI allows you to launch CLIs with certain configurability?
I don't think there is one yet... it would need some kind of way to understand the possible options and parameters for any given CLI program, and without a standardized interface for that, error-prone scraping of
--helpor just hard-coding popular options is probably the best you could do. Hopefully it wouldn't end up looking something like the Scratch programming IDE though.This reminds of jc which is kindof the opposite where it scrapes the output of common commands to present a more unified (JSON) syntax for other programs to consume and automate better.
Hmm, --help parsing can be screwy, I guess. Maybe there is a way through autocompletion machinery.