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latexr on Jan 12, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: CLI user experience case study

“Most” would be an awful experience. You wouldn’t be able to pipe anything in a terminal or write a script without polluting everything with a bunch of `-y` all over the place.

gavinhoward on Jan 12, 2024 [–]

I agree with you, but there is something to what GP is saying.

I use a multicall binary to implement a TUI; they are the same program, but one opens interactive, and the other is a regular CLI.

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