Making the Command-Line Friendlier

[Veli-Pekka Tätilä]

Hi Samuel,
not really OT any more, so subject changed.

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Yes: alias is a standard sh command, so pretty all shells have it.
A good tip, thanks. I'll  try reading the sh man page to see what else it 
has got.

> The problem is really "accessibility of accessibility"
That's quite right. I view the ability to customize apps to one's needs, be 
they GUI or CLI, as a big part of accessibility. The beauty of Unix is, of 
course, that even if the original format would be bad in terms of 
accessibility, you can reformat all you like by piping stuff to other 
commands. Perl is what I'm going to use mostly as I kno and like it. And it 
works in Windows, too.

> Indeed.  But gnome & co implement it of course.
I'm glad they did. I suppose KDE has one, too. DOes the Gnome trash also 
handle terminals running on the desktop?

> Well, at least you have a relatively simple text config (with doc).
> On windows you'd have to dig into the registry...
True true, I don't like that either. Gnome's Gconf app is a cleaner 
implementation with a much better GUI and naming than Regedit. The trouble 
is that ORca doesn't trakc my selection in trying to edit a list of items in 
Gconf such as the visible columns in Nautilus.

<info>
> What do you mean by "widely"?  Any distribution will for sure provide
> them.  Now, do all packages have such documentation?  GNU packages,
> yes, because that's in their development policy.  Else, not so much,
OK good to know. That was just what I ment by widely that is how many apps 
have them and you seem to have already answerd that. Good.

> BTW, maybe you'l find pinfo easier for browsing info pages.
Just installed it. INfo is quite nice, info core-utils gives a clear 
categorization of what the various shell commands operate on, for example. 
Kind of like perlfunc is for Perl, for an analogy.

> Oh, maybe you should use the accessible version which has proper
> cursor routing: amc.
Hmm in which repository is this? I've enabled Universe through the GUI but 
still cannot find it:
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package amc

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