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GUIs are nice for exploration because you can (in principle) intuitively iterate through the application behaviors, but command line interfaces are far superior
by root_axis 2y ago
GUIs are nice for exploration because you can (in principle) intuitively iterate through the application behaviors, but command line interfaces are far superior when you already know what you're doing.
- opan 2y agoDigging through menus can be pretty frustrating. A way to search available commands and options would be ideal. Something like Emacs's M-x prompt suggesting commands as you type, and if you see nothing relevant you can try a different term. Even the basic actions the default keybinds do have equivalent commands you can run. I've heard of a setup relying on Unity's old global menu feature that then lets you use something like rofi to search all the menus in a GUI program at once, but sadly never got it working. Sounds like a dream. You didn't have to actually use Unity, just make programs think you were, presumably so they'd expose the information the right way.