Computing Dictionary
menuitis definition
/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)
