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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by cytzol on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:54PM (#14925158)
Well it's too late to change now! It's one-handed, even on Dvorak, which is a bit annoying.

I don't think it's too much of an ask for people to define their own aliases for it, though. The overlap between people who install custom command-line tools and people who know how to edit their shell config can't be small.

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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by h1d on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:46PM (#14925951)
If it was for the sake of usability, "asd" was far easier to type than "exa" where my fingers have to dance around when the name doesn't mean anything anyway.
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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by Symbiote on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:44AM (#14926815) 

  alias asd=exa
I already have

  alias h=ls
  alias hh='ls -l'
  alias lrt='ls -lrt'
  alias lrta='ls -lrta'
(The first two because I use Dvorak, in which case I'd use 'aoe' instead of 'asd'.)
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