Comment by my_brain_saying
5 hours ago
This is why we have fish tab completions. Does exactly that; list of possible commands with contextual help. Fish rules.
5 hours ago
This is why we have fish tab completions. Does exactly that; list of possible commands with contextual help. Fish rules.
Yeah, no, that's a pale imitation that only addresses the one specific example given. But, like, how would you even know what target formats are supported? Break the flow and look it up or simply read the drop-down list? The free type-any-text interface with poor helpers is the worst in accessibility
Which format is the default if no argument is given?
Or more complicated contextual knowledge - if you cut 1sec of a video file, does fish autocomplete to tell you whether the video is reencoded or cut (otherwise) losslessly
Also, what does fish complete to on Windows?
Which flow is being broken here? Especially when the information is easily accessible with `man`.
the flow that doesn't require you to open a different tab or cancel a command to `man` your way through dozens of poorly searchable pages of documentation, but allows you to continue translating what you want in your mind into the interface command with delay potentially subsecond interrupts
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