menuitis
/men"yoo-i:"tis/ A notional disease suffered by software with
an obsessively simple-minded {menu} interface and no escape.
Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the
flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces,
especially those customisable via {macro}s or a
special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks.
See {user-obsequious}, {drool-proof paper}, {WIMP}, {for the
rest of us}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-12-02)