Wouldn't it be great to be on your NIT in Xterm, tap a single button at the $ prompt, and have

typed in for you automatically?

Or to tap a single button and have typed:

Or click on a button called "fsck" and get:

That is, wouldn't it be great to have a macro-typing applet that could enter your most used commands (or parts of commands) automatically in Xterm?

Similarly, in MicroB (or Links2), wouldn't it be great to have a form-filler, that is, a macro-typing-tool that, faced with a form, could fill in stuff like email addresses and street addresses. If the tool also had password protection and the ability to understand <<tabs>> and <<returns>>, it could securely store and automatically fill in, say, your email address and (automatically including a tab and return) your password; or your log-in; or it could fill in your complete name-and-address, with proper formatting, with one click of a button.

Well, such a macro-typer exists for Windows and this is a plea to programmers to make one for Maemo. A key part of what makes this applet so great is that it is always-on-top, but enters the characters wherever the cursor is in the next window down. And it can be quickly minimized to the task bar. (On a Tablet it would ideally minimize to the status bar.)

The Windows applet is called TypeItIn. You can download an old freeware version of it here. The current version is substantially more powerful and is available here as shareware. That website also provides a good description of it.

Here is a screenshot:



In the panel I made up for this screenshot (the current version allows you to switch among various panels and to decide which of those to password-protect), you could, for example, click "Complete Address" and it would type:
or you could click on the button named "fsck" and it would type:

Any takers? Please??

(If this looks familiar, it's because I'd tried to arouse interest in such a project once before. Rbrewer123 and Benson posted some ideas there that might be useful.)