@matt @Shufei enso demonstrated how this sorta thing should work pretty well.
the shell should pop up little help boxes as you type, such that if you type
m
a list of all commands starting with m appears, autocomplete style. type
mycommand
the common usage should just appear, in a box and changing to more specific help boxes as you type in options.
@grainloom @zensaiyuki @matt @Shufei
I'd say that it match exactly the definition of a #GUI designed to make #CLI easier.
@Shamar @grainloom @matt @Shufei my patience for trying new things has worn fairly thin the last few years, so i’ll refrain from calling your linux thing shitty for now because it wouldn’t be fair. (though it probably is, since most things being shitty is why i am over trying them)
Uhm... I think that the #mainstream software stack is so shitty that I started to write #Jehanne to fix it.
In the specific case of #dwm and #dmenu, I think they actually #suckless. 🤣
Dmenu in particular is a damn good hack from a GUI and CLI perspective. I customized it so that I don't simply use it as a launcher but as a sort of mini shell that is crafted around my own workflow.
As I grow older, I started to hate those tools that try to impose me a workflow I don't like just because it's perceived as easy by most of people. I prefer simple tools that compose well.
You might object that I already have a shell to do that, but a shell can do much much more and this can make you loose your focus. Sometime less is more.
All this is not to convince you to try dwm and dmenu, really!
But if you are stuck in a primitive and over-complicated #Unix-like operating system (a #Linux, a #BSD or something like that) you might find that SuckLess tools... actually suck less than the rest of the system.
@Shamar i’ll take your endorsement into consideration the next time i try linux
@Shamar i think i know of them. so i guess ill try it somehow? i lost the charger for my linux laptop. so i am not sure how.