You Don't Need a GUI

Re:You Don't Need a GUI by least on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:24AM (#26747281)

While not entirely matching your vision for this, TLDR [1] does provide for a similar functionality (discoverability of functions of specific applications).

This doesn't help when you want to map the fuzzy idea of performing a specific action to a particular existing program but it has helped me avoid having to search online for how to perform a particular task with ffmpeg.

[1] https://tldr.sh

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by ronyeh on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:21PM (#26754047)

I was not aware of tldr. Thanks!

However I think the tldrs need to be sorted better. When tldr git, the first example was

  Check the Git version: git --version

Shouldn't the tldrs show me how to add, commit, push? Who knows.

I think the tldr lists should be interactive and allow you to select by pressing 1-9.

And maybe it should re-sort based on what you use most often, hehe.

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by least on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:41PM (#26758492)

Yeah, it would be neat if it made it a bit easier to work with. Git's TLDR page actually breaks it down through subcommands.

    tldr git commit

will show examples and explanations for using `git commit`.

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Re:You Don't Need a GUI by Geezus_42 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @10:46AM (#26761859)

You can edit them, there just text files.

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