Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs
by firethief on Friday November 03, 2017 @08:50PM
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That's a bit of a stretch. I get by just fine in the console without making any real use of its gui-ness; !! is a lot more efficient than reaching for the rodent. Actually, I'm in the process of switching to a framebuffer console -- I mostly just need to get emacs to make use of my truecolor implementation and I'll be X free.
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Re:Command line interfaces are reified UIs
by jameshart on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:39PM
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Sure, but your !! command isn't reified. Any edits you make to a command plucked from your command history aren't reified.
I didn't say anything about using a mouse to interact with the CLI - copying and pasting don't require a mouse, but they do require a UI through which you can see what you're selecting and copying, even if it's just cursor key driven. And it's the original article which suggests copy/pasting commands from web pages or docs into your CLI, as well.