Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "CLIs Are Making A Comeback" video.

I thought that was a cool thing in powershell. It has its own weirdnesses though. Some of that is just paradigm differences but some are definitely head-scratchers.
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I always thought it a shame that attempts to combine CLI and GUI were so rare. Both have their strengths so why not use both? Software like Eagle, Inkscape and GIMP use it well to extend power and allow scripting. Imagine a version of explorer (for example) where you could click individual files to select them or enter a regex like \*jun\*.txt
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That's a terminal thing, not CLI. GUI terminals have their own methods. The real terminal on Linux, you'd use gpm or maybe there's something newer?
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Dark blue on black is a fantastic default...
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@NostraDavid2 Text loses so much metadata though. Passing around objects makes so much sense for the computer. When you need to make it human readable, just make it human readable (which many of the objects can do already). A lot of the time, text-only already encapsulates objects in text with JSON or XML etc. I'm still more *nix than Win but this is very powerful tech and I'd like to see something along those lines .
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vi will be on pretty much any Unix box anywhere. (Even vim is not a given). It's worth being familiar with the basics of text operations with it for that reason alone.
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@monsterhunter445 Nothing wrong with being casual.
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Hence scripting and command-line-recall. Also command line substitution: (^*.txt^*.jpg). I use CLI because it's less work. (Though GUI certainly is superior in some contexts). Once you've got your scripting right, you hand it off to a cron job then let the computer take care of it forever.
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@dennisestenson7820 I remember using 123 when they came out with an extension that let you use a graphics mode.
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