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by laserbeam 546 days ago
So, the point is to make CLIs discoverable and aid with writing commands? Cool!

Here's what's missing. A persistent view of what the user is actually typing. The menus are all nice, but if this is fancy autocomplete I always want to also see the partial command that I've been typing so far. At least, there's no such view in the demo video.

PS. The demo video is very confusing.

1 comments

Yes, you got the point!

Re: what the user is typing should be displayed in the bottom left of the window as they are typing. It’s not really fancy autocomplete, rather it’s keyboard shortcuts.

I answered to a different comment [1] that found the video confusing as well. Let me know if that explanation helps or if the UX is still confusing to you. I’ll need to come up with a better video example.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456417#42460134