Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)
by taeric on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:46PM
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I'm not sure I agree with some of the key issues. In particular, the points on code/data and user input versus pasted input.
By and large, I like knowing that I am in control of what I send a program on the terminal. It is actually maddening when I go to paste into a word processor and it doesn't just bring over the text. Or when I go to script a program, but it doesn't act sanely when driven by a script instead of by a user. Where sanely is, exactly the same.
There are times when I have taken advantage of eshell to inline images and such. That said, I don't use many tui style programs, other than emacs. And I greatly appreciate that the majority of emacs buffers are textual buffers.
By and large, I like knowing that I am in control of what I send a program on the terminal. It is actually maddening when I go to paste into a word processor and it doesn't just bring over the text. Or when I go to script a program, but it doesn't act sanely when driven by a script instead of by a user. Where sanely is, exactly the same.
There are times when I have taken advantage of eshell to inline images and such. That said, I don't use many tui style programs, other than emacs. And I greatly appreciate that the majority of emacs buffers are textual buffers.