(13-09-2023, 06:18 PM)jkl Wrote: I know that this might sound heretic, especially on Nixers, but the best possible way to do actual work in a non-emergency situation is not the CLI. This is not related to the inadequacy of the surrounding console window.

The biggest advantage of GUIs rather than CLIs. You can learn a bit about a program's capabilities by poking around menus. People praise the manpage and yet it's as useless as rifling through a large binder. There's no hyperlinking in a manpage: just grepping back and forth with a plethora of false positive matches. TUIs can come close but are still bogged down by their 80x24 cages.

Even what we consider the "gold standard" of CLIs can be reworked. It can be better. We just stubbornly insist on POSIX like LARPers in front of a DEC machine.