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Re:Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again by nerdponx on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:11PM (#29374208)
It also possibly increases discoverability even compared to a traditional GUI, because you can scroll through the list and see things you otherwise might not have known about.
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Re:Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again by jackson1442 on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:45PM (#29374527)
This is absolutely my favorite thing about command pallets. Any time I need to do anything in vscode I just type something close to what I'm trying to do and scroll until I see something that looks right. Way easier than just about anything else.

macOS has a similar feature for the menu bar- every app has a Help item that allows you to search all menus at the same time. It doesn't work as well as a command pallet but it is incredibly useful for menu-heavy apps.

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Re:Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again by worldsayshi on Sunday November 28, 2021 @06:48PM (#29374546)
I think there's a great potential in command palette like interfaces especially if there was a library that helped you build command palette grammars.
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