I hate Bash and all of its relatives. No language where equality is tested with -eq should be in use in 2017; we can do so much better.
Totally agree, it is just unintuitive for anyone who just knows any type of a "normal" language
Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Anything related to mouse support, . . . are anti-features How does mouse support harm you? The change I'd most like to see to Apple's Terminal.app is that when I want make an edit to the middle of a command line that has not been sent to the shell yet, I can use the pointing device to move the cursor to the location of the intended edit. How would that change harm you? Why isn't it enough that you are able to work…
>The change I'd most like to see to Apple's Terminal.app is that when I want make an edit to the middle of a command line that has not been sent to the shell yet, I can use the pointing device to move the cursor to the location of the intended edit. I recall being able to do this by holding down the alt key as I left clicked where I wanted the cursor to be relocated. There's nothing wrong with mouse support in itself…
>I recall being able to do this by holding down the [option] key as I left clicked
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?
#203My ideal modern terminal would be pretty much a reimplementation of Symbolics' Listener: https://youtu.be/o4-YnLpLgtk?t=1m46s - A presentation-based UI, where every on-screen element is always linked to the data it represents: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6946 - A powerful autocomplete that knows about possible keywords and arguments, and can list them in a graphical fashion (e.g. a drop-down menu). - An abil…
You are not going to get more than 10% of shell users to type ":Output Destination File /home/erikj/log" instead of just "> home/erikj/log". Learn it once, save typing a lot of characters, many times a day. The idea that you should type so much more just to be "not cryptic" is as old as COBOL. Which, as most people would agree, was not a good idea.
Why do you think I mentioned the autocompletion facility? Shell users won't have to type any more characters than they do now. Please give Genera a try in the emulator to see how it would work with your own eyes, it's nothing like COBOL.
Re: Ask HN: What do you love/hate about terminals? Would you change them?
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
At the risk of starting a quasi-religious argument, the object-orientation of Powershell is one of the things I really like about it.
It is nice although quite difficult if you are just an occasional user.
I've forgotten how to write powershell more times than I can remember.