Re:The future of UI is text
by lomnakkus on Monday October 12, 2015 @05:44PM
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> Or wait, you mean the resulting command built by xargs may have a type dependent on the arguments produced by find? That's... messy, yeah.
Yes! Thinking about interactive CLIs... yes.
EDIT: I should add: My main point here is that types would constrict the search space to be reasonable, rather than seeing that "1200 commands are available, do you want to show them all?" prompt. I really think we could be doing much better in this space.
Yes! Thinking about interactive CLIs... yes.
EDIT: I should add: My main point here is that types would constrict the search space to be reasonable, rather than seeing that "1200 commands are available, do you want to show them all?" prompt. I really think we could be doing much better in this space.