On 27-Nov-05 Ten wrote:
[...] Besides which, there's a truism about the CLUI that gets missed. Typing commands in at a keyboard is often much easier, quicker and more intuitive than spending eons wheeling the mouse around.
Not to mention less error-prone in general -- you don't risk clicking on the wrong bloody thing or with the wrong bloody button.
On the flip side, though, you also have to be careful with the keyboard sometimes, for the same reason. E.g. when in "command" mode in 'vim'. And, on those occasions when I've used Word, I have sometimes done something like Ctrl-I by accident instead of Shift-I, say, and found I've re-formatted the whole bloody document (almost irrevocably -- recoverable only with pain and difficulty).
But the advantage in this respect is definitely on the CLUI side, as far as I'm concerned.
Cheers, Ted.
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