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Guy Harris (talk | contribs) Undo compression of three paragraphs into noe, wth ellipses between them. WP:OTHERSCOMMENTS recommends against that sort of thing, and I'm unconvinced it improves the readability - it may even *reduce* it. |
Guy Harris (talk | contribs) →Suggest command line interface (no hyphen): Indent all paragraphs of that comment equally. |
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:A hyphen is required in compounds and with adjectives, when the reference is not to the primary noun. In 'graphical user interface' and 'application program interface', all of the adjectives etc refer to 'interface'. In the first, graphical describes UI, in the second, the application owns the PI, but it's the interface that is being referred to.
:In 'command-line interface', the command refers to 'line', and the actual process is a line interface. One might note that a command line interface can be used by programs as well as the user, an example being pipes and filters. The configuration of programs like file managers, to use external zip utilities, the windows registry-to-command interface, and so forth, are also 'command lines' which are used to interface between the issuing and recieving program. Some programs can listen to the output too.
:One should note that 'command processors' do not equate to 'command lines'. A command processor might well process a batch one line at a time, but this is simply reading and acting on a text file. One does not have to implement features of a command line to read a text file (as opposed to an INI file). [[User:Wendy.krieger|Wendy.krieger]] ([[User talk:Wendy.krieger|talk]]) 11:51, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
:reason #1 is not compelling ;) ''command line'' is a singular concept where as ''graphical user'' is not so it makes sense that the two are different. Makes sense to use ''command-line'', but not ''graphical-user''. WRT #2, ''command-line'' is acting as an adjective. Just bc there's an article for ''command-line interface'' does not make the ''phrase'' a ''noun''. WRT #3: standardized by those folks does not make it universally standard. Anyone can publish a standard. What matters is whether the standard is noteworthy, and that's subjective. [[User:Stevebroshar|Stevebroshar]] ([[User talk:Stevebroshar|talk]]) 15:05, 25 April 2025 (UTC)
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