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Those very basic operations work, but it's not feasible yet to use it exclusively as a shell and be able to do anything moderately complex without getting fancy
by clicks 13y ago
Those very basic operations work, but it's not feasible yet to use it exclusively as a shell and be able to do anything moderately complex without getting fancy with subprocesses and so on. Though, it's been a while since I used it (2 years) -- have things changed significantly in this time that now make it a good candidate to use as a command-line terminal?
- eoinmurray92 13y agoPrecede any command by "!" and it sends it to bash, you can use git etc. like this.
- clicks 13y agoCool, I didn't know this. However, still I wonder if that's enough. I mean, I can imagine that could get annoying really fast considering ! is a little tough to get to on the keyboard. Maybe a modal switch (a la vim, a mode for full blown shell, a mode with IPython being normal IPython) is a good option. I really hope something like this eventually works out. Command-line shells seem too much like relics of the past, they can stand to be improved with some of the new UI sensibilities. IPython is one thing I can think of that is poised to fit and interact well with shells.