A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”

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    7 days ago

    Or a clipboard with notepad in a second window for quick reference. The amount of one-off commands and single use script kiddie code I had transcribed in my marble composition notebook was staggering.

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        Right. I’m saying how great it would’ve been to have those things when all we had was CLI, just like your point about autocomplete. Especially for dummies like me who didn’t ask for help or look for resources and had to reverse engineer directory changes and command strings to learn the interface.