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Re:Babun – A new Windows shell by mattmanser on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @04:36AM (#7742763)
Now, now, be fair.

alt-space > e > p becomes pure muscle memory.

It's actually a really elegant key combination that I definitely did not have to look up 10 times before it stuck because no other program uses it.

And of course powershell, which doesn't Get-Have-The-Most-Over-Verbose-And-Stupid-Naming-Conventions-Ever and have a terrible language design that results in [console]::writeline("Powershell {0} being a complete farce", "not") solves a lot of these problems.

Re:Babun – A new Windows shell by ygra on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @05:37AM (#7742917)
Just to be fair:

1. Clink [−7½] and PSReadLine [𝜋] both enable you to press Ctrl+V. On Unix-likes you're told to use a better terminal emulator to handle such cases nicely (something like ytcxbcixvt or what's hot these days) and most people don't think twice about heeding that advice, yet on Windows people willingly suffer, grumbling and complaining?

2. gal and Tab help a lot. And I actually prefer commands like Import-Csv over things like almf in readability (at least they weren't formed by bashing your head on the keyboard). But that might just be me.

3. 'PowerShell {0} being a complete farce' -f 'not'. In the scripts I've written I could probably count the number of [Console]::WriteLine calls on one hand (unary).

[−7½] http://mridgers.github.io/clink/

[𝜋] https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine

Re:Babun – A new Windows shell by stuaxo on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @07:33AM (#7743137)
Surely just turn on "QuickEdit mode" and paste by clicking the mouse.