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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) (5 children)

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

    Those exist already

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 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

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