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There is nothing wrong with current shell. Who needs window resize or copy&paste anyway?

by qwerta 12y ago

mattmanser 12y ago
Now, now, be fair. alt-space > e > p becomes pure muscle memory. It's actually a really elegant key combination that I definitely did not have to look up 10 times before it stuck because no other program uses it. And of course powershell, which doesn't Get-Have-The-Most-Over-Verbose-And-Stupid-Naming-Conventions-Ever and have a terrible language design that results in [console]::writeline("Powershell {0} being a complete farce", "not") solves a lot of these problems.
- ygra 12y ago
  Just to be fair: 1. Clink [−7½] and PSReadLine [𝜋] both enable you to press Ctrl+V. On Unix-likes you're told to use a better terminal emulator to handle such cases nicely (something like ytcxbcixvt or what's hot these days) and most people don't think twice about heeding that advice, yet on Windows people willingly suffer, grumbling and complaining? 2. gal and Tab help a lot. And I actually prefer commands like Import-Csv over things like almf in readability (at least they weren't formed by bashing your head on the keyboard). But that might just be me. 3. 'PowerShell {0} being a complete farce' -f 'not'. In the scripts I've written I could probably count the number of [Console]::WriteLine calls on one hand (unary). [−7½] http://mridgers.github.io/clink/ http://mridgers.github.io/clink/ [𝜋] https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
- stuaxo 12y ago
  Surely just turn on "QuickEdit mode" and paste by clicking the mouse.
maxerickson 12y ago
You can resize a cmd shell in the properties, and as someone posted in a sister thread, turn on Quickedit to smooth out copy and paste. Turning on tab completion requires some fiddling though (and I have no idea if it survives in newer version of Windows).
- mattmanser 12y ago
  Seriously, have you tried these "solutions"? It's like rubbing salt into the wound.
  - maxerickson 12y ago
    Sure. But I don't have a lot of Unix/Linux background, so I don't really know what I'm missing. (I anyway wouldn't try to defend them as solutions, just clarifications of what is possible)

There is nothing wrong with current shell. Who needs window resize or copy&paste anyway?

by qwerta 12y ago

There is nothing wrong with current shell. Who needs window resize or copy&paste anyway?

Now, now, be fair. alt-space > e > p becomes pure muscle memory. It's actually a really elegant key combination that I definitely did not have to look up 10 times before it stuck because no other program uses it. And of course powershell, which doesn't Get-Have-The-Most-Over-Verbose-And-Stupid-Naming-Conventions-Ever and have a terrible language design that results in [console]::writeline("Powershell {0} being a complete farce", "not") solves a lot of these problems.

ygra 12y ago
Just to be fair: 1. Clink [−7½] and PSReadLine [𝜋] both enable you to press Ctrl+V. On Unix-likes you're told to use a better terminal emulator to handle such cases nicely (something like ytcxbcixvt or what's hot these days) and most people don't think twice about heeding that advice, yet on Windows people willingly suffer, grumbling and complaining? 2. gal and Tab help a lot. And I actually prefer commands like Import-Csv over things like almf in readability (at least they weren't formed by bashing your head on the keyboard). But that might just be me. 3. 'PowerShell {0} being a complete farce' -f 'not'. In the scripts I've written I could probably count the number of [Console]::WriteLine calls on one hand (unary). [−7½] http://mridgers.github.io/clink/ http://mridgers.github.io/clink/ [𝜋] https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
stuaxo 12y ago
Surely just turn on "QuickEdit mode" and paste by clicking the mouse.

maxerickson 12y ago

You can resize a cmd shell in the properties, and as someone posted in a sister thread, turn on Quickedit to smooth out copy and paste. Turning on tab completion requires some fiddling though (and I have no idea if it survives in newer version of Windows).

mattmanser 12y ago
Seriously, have you tried these "solutions"? It's like rubbing salt into the wound.
- maxerickson 12y ago
  Sure. But I don't have a lot of Unix/Linux background, so I don't really know what I'm missing. (I anyway wouldn't try to defend them as solutions, just clarifications of what is possible)