Mastodawn

Julia Evans Aug 21, 2024

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!)

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Simon Eilting

@b0rk lately: terminal emulators using the key combination that the shell has always interpreted as "move cursor forward one word" as "search". This leads to having to press arrow keys 100s of times to do a simple edit.

Worst, though: repeating a command that includes the filename twice, for different files. I can never remember how to "do again but replace all occurrences of 102 by 106".