/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 macros 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)