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The suggestion is similar to the "search a command"-UI that some more complex destop programs have in their help menu.

The idea to use text more actively in user interfaces is not new, there were/are these ideas, for example:

- Gentner/Nielsen: The Anti-Mac Interface, 1996 ( https://www.nngroup.com/articles/anti-mac-interface/ )

- Raskin’s ideas as in "The Human Interface", 2000 and the Canon Cat, 1987: ( https://www.reproof.app/blog/on-designing-a-more-humane-comp... )

- Wirth’s Oberon Operating System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon_(operating_system)#User...



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