for real though, modern linux distros will rarely require you to enter a command line, and if you do, a quick internet search can usually help you find out what you need to enter

  • crime [she/her, any]
    ·
    3 years ago

    Does man command or command --help not usually do it for you?

    • ComradeBongwater [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      My needs are met by those and stuff like tldr, cheat & howdoi, but I am specifically looking for something much more discoverable and inline as I type the command.

      Basically, I want:

      • fzf completions (or any fuzzy searcher w/ previewing)
      • commands and aliases showing description from man beneath
      • file/dir completion showing devicons & file previews
      • flag/option completion while displaying the corresponding help text beneath
      • integration with some of the tools like tldr, cheat, howdoi, navi, etc
      • BigLadKarlLiebknecht [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        I switched to fish last year, and I haven’t looked back. It feels like so much less of an abomination than zsh or bash, and I’ve barely modified it out of the box. Might be worth a whirl, the completion stuff rocks.

        • thisismyrealname [he/him]
          ·
          3 years ago

          i used to use fish, but having to translate scripts from POSIX to fish syntax got annoying. great shell otherwise

    • wantonviolins [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      man command often fails to provide examples of common use cases, and sometimes the man page assumes that you already know what the program was created to do.

      I didn’t know what cat was actually for for years