/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)