A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”

  • bufalo1973
    12·
    7 days ago

    Imagine if the terminal in the 80s has had a line with auto-completion below the prompt.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      Or a clipboard with notepad in a second window for quick reference. The amount of one-off commands and single use script kiddie code I had transcribed in my marble composition notebook was staggering.

        • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
          3·
          6 days ago

          Right. I’m saying how great it would’ve been to have those things when all we had was CLI, just like your point about autocomplete. Especially for dummies like me who didn’t ask for help or look for resources and had to reverse engineer directory changes and command strings to learn the interface.