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Yes, but, POSIX shells aren’t that much more discoverable, either. It takes loads of reading and trial and error to become competent in any command line.
by nsomaru 7y ago
Yes, but, POSIX shells aren’t that much more discoverable, either.
It takes loads of reading and trial and error to become competent in any command line.
- minusf 7y agoI would argue that the strict posix shell (with all its limitations) can be learnt in an afternoon or two and a lot of it will be also useful in general in the OS. like utilities and their inputs and outputs. it's mostly reusing/duct taping existing programs, so it's not a vacuum like a DSL. I hope it has excellent man pages to be usable. the BSDs have...
- solarkraft 7y agoThe worst/easiest to fix discoverability problem with Microsoft prompts is that they show you a single completion on tab and cycle through them on every subsequent tab, which is a lot more confusing than being shown all the options, in my opinion.