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* e.g. the -r, interactive bash history search come to mind as pattern. But also tools like FZF https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#fuzzy-completion-for-bash-an... that don't nessecarily only "complete" on tab, but may replace larger parts of the commandline.
Very true https://i3wm.org/. I3 is a great WM that allows you to avoid having to use the mouse.
That said I now work in the Windows world. I find that if you are using the same tools day in day out then the keyboard is the way to go. If you have to use new tools every other week the GUI is hands down much better. Unfortunately in my role I'm doing exactly that.
> For example, in the command line, deleting a file doesn't send it to the "Recycle Bin" or your OS's equivalent, it simply deletes it.
Use trash-cli: https://github.com/andreafrancia/trash-cli
While not entirely matching your vision for this, TLDR [1] does provide for a similar functionality (discoverability of functions of specific applications).
This doesn't help when you want to map the fuzzy idea of performing a specific action to a particular existing program but it has helped me avoid having to search online for how to perform a particular task with ffmpeg.
[1] https://tldr.sh
> f I have a rich object in a debugger in Python, I can call dir() on it to immediately see what I can do with it. Whereas if it's a simple dataclass, I'd need to search through code to find how I can use it.
No OOP language can have a search feature as useful as Hoogle:
https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=%5BMaybe+a%5D+-%3E+%5Ba%5...