Renaissance of the Command Line
Recently I noticed some odd stuff. Launchy – an open source keystroke launcher for windows. Start++, a Vista tool that enables users to launch programs, open websites and play music by typing simple commands into a textbox.
Are they reinventing the unix shell? Well, not exactly but by some means yes, they are. That’s no surprise. Interacting with a computer via the keyboard is much faster than using the mouse. Especially when your hands reside on the keyboard, e.g. while writing text or during a chat conversation. I think it’s great that people are rediscovering this advantage. Creators of IRC clients for example have been including this feature for a long time.
For the very same reason I prefer the VIM editor and use the bash even on my Windows Systems with the help of Cygwin.
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