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my_brain_sayingtoday at 10:14 AM1 replyview on HN

This is why we have fish tab completions. Does exactly that; list of possible commands with contextual help. Fish rules.


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evikstoday at 10:26 AM

Yeah, no, that's a pale imitation that only addresses the one specific example given. But, like, how would you even know what target formats are supported? Break the flow and look it up or simply read the drop-down list? The free type-any-text interface with poor helpers is the worst in accessibility

Which format is the default if no argument is given?

Or more complicated contextual knowledge - if you cut 1sec of a video file, does fish autocomplete to tell you whether the video is reencoded or cut (otherwise) losslessly

Also, what does fish complete to on Windows?

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