what are some problems you've run into in the terminal with entering commands at a shell prompt? (other than copy/paste issues) so far I have:
- making a mistake on a single line / multiline command and having to press the left arrow 100 times, or just press ctrl+c and start over
- autocomplete not working (but would love more specific versions of this)
- problems with history? would love examples of history problems
(not looking for solutions right now, just more problems!)
Annoyances
* Tedium of combining stdout and stderr (easy)
* Redirect output and replace source (easy — cf. Sponge)
* Mixed CLI argument format disciplines (e.g., diversity of dd, find, GNU-style, subcommands, etc)
* History gets lost between sessions
* Absence of manual pages
* Diversity of ways of getting help (e.g., -h, --help, help, etc).
* Idiosyncrasies of Bourne shell language
Difficult
* Parsing and structuring unstructured input (cf. PowerShell or Elvish Shell)
Bad UX
* Screen
Julia Evans
mtp