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Not a fan of the LLM-flavoured headings, and the tips seem like a real mixed bag (and it'd be nice to give credit specifically to the readline library where app
by zahlman 7mo ago
Not a fan of the LLM-flavoured headings, and the tips seem like a real mixed bag (and it'd be nice to give credit specifically to the readline library where appropriate as opposed to the shell), but there are definitely a few things in here I'll have to play around with.
One thing I dislike about brace expansions is that they don't play nicely with tab completion. I'd rather have easy ways to e.g. duplicate the last token (including escaped/quoted spaces), and delete a filename suffix. And, while I'm on that topic, expand variables and `~` immediately (instead of after pressing enter).
- ta8903 7mo agoSpeaking of readline, I recently found out PowerShell has a readline mode (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/psreadline/about/about_psreadline https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/psreadli...) and it works great. As someone who works mostly in WSL and has to use PS occasionally, it really reduces the overhead of the context switch.
- School-Cotton 7mo agoReadline is close enough to being part of bash that it’s not really inaccurate to call these all shell features imo.
- integralid 7mo agoExcept not everyone uses bash shell - so it's not really accurate.
- croemer 7mo agoNot just the heading is LLM-flavoured. So is the writing, e.g. "The shell is a toolbox, not an obstacle course."
- zahlman 7mo agoYeah, there are a few of those, but overall there wasn't really enough prose in total to really irritate me. And those LLM-isms do come from somewhere, and I really do get the sense that some humans are effectively training themselves off of AI now.