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    Anyway, here are terminal commands you don't understand. (discuss.tchncs.de)
    submitted 1 week ago by Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Just to give you some extra impressions:

    My brain mixes up all letters with the same/similar form (regardless of rotation or flip) - so I often mix up [d, b, p, q] or [a, e] or [u, n] when typing. And then I read the command 20 times over until I find which letter got mixed up, because my brain autocorrects to the right command when reading.

    It helped to use the Dyslexie font in the terminal, because it makes those shapes more unique distinct. (not to be confused with open dyslexic which did not help me at all).

    Also asking an AI to correct the command is huge, but takes time.

    But man GUI has none of the hassle, it says what the button will do when you click it, so you click it and it does that. How wonderful is that, ay?

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

    Also asking an AI to correct the command is huge, but takes time.

    I use shell_gpt with a custom prompt bound to a hotkey that dumps my current terminal line into a local (Deepseek) AI which is prompted with some information about my system and a preferred reply format.

    For example, I'll type:

    rsync movies/ media server but also do it recursively

    Then press CTRL+L and a bash script copies the terminal input into a prompt that requests the AI return a properly formatted terminal command which it places into the terminal input. This way I can know what I want to do and forget the exact switch or option.

    A different hotkey (CTRL+O) sends the terminal input to a Chatbot prompt for one-off answers.

    I'm doing a bit more on the backend now (RAG using man pages, for example) for the Ctrl L command, but I used it with a simple prompt for several months. It's like having a slight more intelligent tab completion.