Hi Ditto - unfortunately it's pretty difficult to really give a good choice for this. When the focus is on the command line input it has a lot of side effects. For example in Rhino when you're drawing a rectangle the command line where you're going to type in values does not give you any feedback on the current width and height of the rectangle that you're drawing. The command line focus of Rhino means it's fundamentally looking for just one single kind of typed in input at a time, so you have to type in a width first and then only when you push enter do you get a "height" prompt.

That kind of command line text only entry is also pretty archaic and very unfamiliar to new users, I specifically chose not to focus on it with MoI to avoid those kinds of problems. It gets particularly awkward when there are a lot of choices and options, it's so much more intuitive to see on/off options as a checkbox and as dropdown GUI controls rather than long chunks of text, these types of things are really no contest.

If that type of "type in everything including command names and options" is very important to you, then I'd have to think that MoI is not the right fit for you and something like Rhino which does focus heavily on that would just work better for you.

There is a focus in MoI on allowing you to type in numeric coordinate values though - on any command that has a numeric input field you can just start typing numbers and your keyboard focus will automatically go to the first input field, you don't have to click on it first.

Typing in command names to launch everything also means you have to remember a lot of kind of arcane names and labels for things, a lot of the effort in MoI is about trying to reduce that type of cognitive overhead...

- Michael