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Nonsense. Fixing a typo or amending a command somewhere in the middle are obvious use cases.

• mixmastamyk 3y ago
  That’s only the last line, not quite what they stated. Still a lot slower than emacs or CUA keys, so no it doesn’t fall flat. The kind of person that would use it doesn’t use a terminal.
  • lupusreal 3y ago
    > That’s only the last line, not quite what they stated Then I wasn't clear, I am talking about using the mouse to position the cursor in the current line being edited. If I am writing a long command and realize I made a typo 50 characters earlier in the second argument, I should be able to click in the second argument to reposition my cursor. And yes, I do use vi-mode and know how to do this the vi-way with just the keyboard, but Vim also supports using the mouse for this and there's no reason shells shouldn't as well. > The kind of person that would use it doesn’t use a terminal. Absolute nonsense.
    • mixmastamyk 3y ago
      Nonsense—a shell is not a full screen ncurses app like the others you've mentioned and probably wouldn't want it to be due to having to carry the scrollback buffer. You're the only person to implement this slower/problematic/nifty design in five decades, on a FLOSS operating system. Just a guess but maybe your attitude is also part of the problem.