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