Ah! Thanks for sharing those visuals!

DataHand, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataHand

Yep, typing this on a Corne-ish Zen. Funnily enough saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bTI6WUJxD4 yesterday and my first thought was “No. ALL my keys get to work hard!”

Absolutely. I learned about that decades ago as a teenager and never would I have thought it would still be useful today… yet, in 2025 if you want to do anything powerful, in the cloud, on your phone, even in your XR headset, it is STILL relevant!

PS: I project I’m contributing to on the topic https://nlnet.nl/project/xrsh/ ideas welcomed!

Yeah it happened to all of us. The console is powerful and it means when you mess up, it will have BIG consequences. One learns to test first before globbing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glob_(programming) too much!

Very nice, I don’t seem to have that option available but I can right-click on a filename to open the file manager in the current directory. Good to know!

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

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.

CLI is effective also because of its history (i.e. one can go back, repeat a command as-is or edit it then repeat) but also the composability of its components. If one made a useful command before, it can be combined with another useful command.

Rinse & repeat and it makes for a very powerful tool.

FWIW I do use the file browser too when I’m looking for a file with a useful preview, e.g. images.

When I do have to handle a large amount of files though (e.g. more than a dozen) and so something “to them”, rather than just move them around, then the CLI becomes very powerful.

It’s not because one uses the CLI that one never used a file browser.

Yes, in fact while writing my comment that’s what I had in mind, namely how can it not only do the opposite of what it claims BUT making it harder for smaller players to contest the “winners” setting up the rules. Wonderful. /s

Indeed, amazing how KYC is pointless. I feel like the finance industry is very good at packaging things in very appealing terms … yet do exactly the opposite of what it claims.