/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 the
rest of us}.
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Jargon File]
(1994-12-02)