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    [–] danhab99@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Imo I don't memorize commands. Everything on my zsh is so aliased that I don't think I can teach someone else how to use any other cli.

    It just turned into me telling the machine what I want it to do and let it figure out how to rather than me do every little button click step.

    [–] slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    An alias is tantamount to a button click. That’s why this whole thing is so stupid.

    [–] utopiah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

    It's actually even more efficient because one can search through the list of all available buttons.

    [–] danhab99@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

    So you're right... To an extent... I usually say I'm making a new button when I'm figuring out an alias.

    I guess a better way to express my point is that I'm not geared for interpreting graphics to tell what a button is supposed to do, nor am I cool with needing to press the same buttons in order multiple times.

    On the CLI, all the buttons are named with (impo) meaningful names, and I can combine them into new just-as-accessable buttons whenever I want for free! It might align more with my working frustrations, I hate dragging my eyes over the same text/iconography every time I wanna do something, I want it to just 'happen'. I need a user interface that can react to me faster than I can think and to achieve that I just limit my UI to exactly what I want and I keep it easy for me to expand as I need it.

    [–] utopiah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

    reverse-i-search (typically ctrl-r) or ~/.bashrc (or whatever your alternative shell configuration file equivalent is) means one doesn't have to memorize much indeed, especially while commenting properly.