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Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Post by mmh0000 »

albert_e wrote: post #18

Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…

Use Claude Desktop? (https://claude.com/download)

Personally, I much prefer the CLI. The CLI is a tool that has been refined for over 50 years to excel at text input and output. Once you learn it, it can feel like an extension of your brain.

Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Post by hombre_fatal »

albert_e wrote: post #18

Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…

Why did you lambast it as an emotional attachment instead of a practical preference?

People prefer terminal apps because they run inside our terminal app environments (kitty, zellij, tmux), tend to be keyboard driven, tend to be more lightweight than GUIs, tend to be scriptable, and can be run remotely over a standard ssh session.

A conventional GUI is a nonstarter in comparison.

Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Post by pjmlp »

albert_e wrote: post #18

Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…

I really don't get it.

Started using computers when that was the only affordable way to use computers.

For some reason, some people really love to live in 1970's with their expensive HiDPI monitors.

Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Post by bashtoni »

albert_e wrote: post #18

Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…

A text based interface is perfect for interacting with a large language model, and it seems unsurprising to me that it's the most popular way to work with them.

Frankly, the idea of having to decipher what a picture is supposed to represent to use a skill fills me with horror.

Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Post by patates »

albert_e wrote: post #18

Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…

Composability (piping to other programs, or calling them via scripts), reachability (through ssh, for example), focus (not being distracted by all options being present) and universality (cli is more or less the same interface everywhere) are my reasons.

I still use GUI apps too, and actually find claude code to be closer to a GUI app than a cli.

Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Post by samlinnfer »

albert_e wrote: post #18

Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…

The Unix philosophy is not emotional.

Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Post by thewebguyd »

z3c0 wrote: post #8
stronglikedan wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Or stop using Windows I'd rather continue to be as productive as possible.

Not even getting into the semantics of what one could mean by "productive", that sounds like a bleak existence.

Not everyone here is *nix-pilled (WSL aside). Despite W11's missteps, Windows isn't a completely terrible OS to work on and has some of the best window management outside of a full tiling WM.

Re: Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix

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Post by joshka »

albert_e wrote: post #18

Why are we emotionally tied to command line interfaces Desktop apps are a second class citizen that do not get feature parity Lot of actions on Claude Code seem much more suited for a thoughtfully designed GUI Even the chat responses and links therein can benefit from judicious use of rich text and formatting and real hyperlinks to other parts of the UI or elsewhere Favourite Skills can be toolbar buttons or menus if…

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