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The command line has no affordance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance

• technomancy 15y ago
  Context-sensitive tab-completion addresses this to a degree. Things like Emacs' ido and dmenu can often take you the rest of the way. I play my music using a script rather similar to what he's described in the article except it narrows down the list of completions as I type using dmenu: https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/music-choose https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/musi... I really wish this style of completion were more common.
• crazygringo 15y ago
  Thank you! This says it all. How is a command-line supposed to be useful for normal people when it doesn't give the slightest idea of what I can do? Normal people don't want to study man pages for ten minutes before they can do I single thing -- they just want to start a program and do things.