One of the dead ends of Unix UX are all the terse DSLs. I feel that terse languages like Vi’s command language [1] get confused with interactivity. It sure ca

One of the dead ends of Unix UX are all the terse DSLs. I feel that terse languages like Vi’s command language [1] get confused with interactivity. It sure can be terse, but having dozens of tiny languages with little coherence is not interactive; it’s just confusing and error-prone. One of these languages is the history expansion in Bash. At first I was taken by all the `!!^1` weirdness. But (of course) it’s better—and actually interactive—to use keybindings like `up` (previous command). Thankfully Fish had the good sense to not implement history expansion. [1] I use Emacs+Evil so I like Vi(m) myself.