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    Linux terminal users be like (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Huh, I never actually knew you could do that. But anyway, I disagree that people aren't spamming the up key. At least in my experience, basically everyone I've ever seen use the terminal has always just spammed the up key to get the command they want. Many people don't get around to using the shortcuts like the one you mentioned because they're not really discoverable or obvious, so everything tends to become super painful and slow.

    Besides, my overall point was that there are all sorts of annoyances like the one mentioned in the post that keep me away from the terminal. Stuff like not being able to click anywhere within a long command to immediately move your cursor to it (yes I know you can just use Ctrl+Left Arrow to move back really quickly, but it's just slow) or how Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V don't actually work the way you expect them to.