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poincaredisk
6 months ago
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"Rules" that terminal programs follow
If you write a command line program, please don't introduce random keybindings for simple actions, or unnecessarily fancy colors when standard 8 would suffice. These rules (or rather conventions) exist for a reason.
eviks
6 months ago
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Sure there is a reason, just not a good one. Bad defaults are rather sticky. And the keybinding would be ergonomic, not random
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