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> command-line interfaces are less discoverable and harder to use, starting out. Even as a programmer, I struggle to remember the flags to many common command l
by yosamino 7y ago
> command-line interfaces are less discoverable and harder to use, starting out. Even as a programmer, I struggle to remember the flags to many common command line utilities
Not to disagree with the general point you're making, but autocompletion of commands just using the tab command is how CLIs get discoverability and it's kind of cool.
Whenever I "don't know" I just 'cmd -<tab><tab>' and suddenly I am presented ith a list of options that I can filter by continuing to type the option I suspect I need, or tab to the one that I see on screen. Then if that requires an argument <tab><tab> it let's me select the, for example, file that is needed as the argument.
- Const-me 7y ago> Whenever I "don't know" I just 'cmd -<tab><tab>' and suddenly I am presented ith a list of options You assume you already know which `cmd` to type. Most users don't.