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Any new tool replacing good old one must be a drop in replacement (this one seems like it might be?), muscle memory is so hard to overcome after years and years
by kh_hk 6y ago
Any new tool replacing good old one must be a drop in replacement (this one seems like it might be?), muscle memory is so hard to overcome after years and years of conditioning. It's pretty interesting how tools over time become a language on itself.
- franga2000 6y agoNot always, although it's preferable where it makes sense. Something like httpie is much better than curl and wget and it's definitely worth learning its interface. If they tried to make it drop-in, a lot of the benefits eould be lost.
- selfhoster11 6y agoNot necessarily. Newbies enter the field all the time, without the entrenched reflexes. Seasoned Vi users cannot imagine their shortcuts changing, but I cannot imagine getting used to them.
- tdy_err 6y agoI noticed it at least doesn't mirror `ls -A` because it hides those out of the box. But instead of swallowing -A it throws exit 1