The Enso Interface Demo lets you try and “feel” some new features and behaviors that have been suggested for Humanized's fabulous Enso. The idea for the demo originated from this discussion.

The new Scratchpad.
When you're not in a text editing application, but for example would like to calculate 6 * 27, just open scratchpad, type your text, then invoke the Enso command like you always have done. No need to explicitly dismiss the scratchpad, no need to press an additional key after the command. There's no change in the way commands used to work in Enso 1.0.

When you've typed a command and release the Enso key, the command executes and the scratchpad closes. You can continue working right away without having to explicitly dismiss the scratchpad. If you don't want to do anything with that scratchpad entry for now, you of course don't have to type a command: Just press and release the Enso key to get rid of the scratchpad.

But wait, there's more! The scratchpad comes with a history that lets you look up and re-use any typed text or used selection from earlier. To perform an Enso command on an older history item: Open the scratchpad. Find the desired item with the Page-Up/Down keys. Issue the enso command.

Some further details:

• When a text selection is used in a command, it gets added to the most recent position of the history.
• On leaving the scratchpad, the current item gets moved to the most recent position.
• Enso commands always use the most recent scratchpad entry (or entries).
• You can edit the text of older history items.
• You can use Space as an abbreviation for “·open·scratchpad”.
• You can use Space-Space (that's two spaces) as an abbreviation for “··add·to·scratchpad”.

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The Enso Interface Demo is 100% JavaScript. It is meant to be expandable by anyone who knows a little JavaScript and wants to demo their own ideas.

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Copyright 2008 Andreas Schuderer. All rights reserved.

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