Ever since using the late Jef Raskin’s The Humane Environment, I’ve been using the Windows Run menu, my “cb” (read/write clipboard) utility, and a few other scripts to do a sad, modal approximation of the THE command quasimode.

cb | less

cb | wc | less

cb | upper_case | cb

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Well, it looks like Enso is about to replace all that. It’s out, it’s $20, and I just ordered it straight away after watching the demo video. We’ll see soon whether I regret that decision.