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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

The main reason Terminals suck is the lack of any guides.

Imagine a CLI interface without commands, just selecting. That would still work everywhere and be easy to maintain, but it would be easy to use.

Or just having cheatsheets available

cheat(){
curl cheat.sh/$1
}

That makes Terminals useful for everyone

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Cheat sheets are man pages and the -help option on most commands

Those exist already

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They are mostly way too big. Try to get an easy curl command from the man page

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I get that, but any extensive cheat sheet would just wrap around to being an inefficient man page

-help is the quick sheet, man is the extensive guide

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Cheatsheets are community maintained examples of common usage. Manpages are way too complex, help is not always available or useful but good