Julia Evans on Nostr: it feels like part of why the terminal is hard is that there are a lot of ...
it feels like part of why the terminal is hard is that there are a lot of hard-to-discover UI conventions, for example how it's very common for programs (man, git, etc) to dump you into `less` when they're displaying a lot of input, and you need to learn to recognize that you're in `less` so that you know how to navigate or quit
this is pretty straightforward once you're used to it but it's not totally obvious how someone is supposed to learn it
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