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Text Interface Design Reference?

Is there a good book or other links to text interface design? I'm not interested in graphical user interfaces. I'm interested in usability for good command line interfaces and scripts.

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Your interface must follow the Least Surprise Rules as described by ESR in the "Art of Unix Programming" . If your program supports command line options, make sure they have the traditional meaning . Be sure to read the chapter Tradeoffs between the CLI and the Visual Interfaces .

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Now I know that vim is usually used for the "commit" dialog (default) for svn (on unix based OS). This is just an example of mixing two interface styles to create a consistent solution.

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You should take a look at some of the ideas of Ubiquity , as well as some ideas. Asa Ruskin says it seems to be the same.

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