Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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Mail, Pine, Mutt, TRN, Links, VI and Emacs all work in a different way. That is also confusing.
I hear you. Common shortcut keys are different between apps (different paste keys, etc.) and even a lot of flags are different letters to do the same thing or same thing with different letters...
But I won't criticize Vi for being modal (should I?); I'll just criticize the whole package for not putting out a single united interface.
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And apropos, while theoretically very helpful, has one of the worst names a command like it could have.