Nobody should be using up arrows to get previous commands in a terminal or shell. You have to move your hand and its linear complexity in keystrokes. Use ctrl+p (for low n) or ctrl+r. Use a real shell or history manager (fish, fzf, atuin) for ctrl+r.
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in reply to Mitchell Hashimoto • •"I find that 14" crt monitors are best for programmers, so from now on you are all forced to use 14" crts"
"Blasting k-pop at ears-bleeding make me 10% faster at bash, so get used"
"640K are enough for everybody!" (no, wait...)
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in reply to David Gerard • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Fabio • •@Fabio @Mitchell Hashimoto I mean, if everybody, including companies, especially companies, were only allowed 640K of RAM, we wouldn't have LLMs, and that would be an improvement.
I don't remember whether 640K were enough for dr Sbaitso, but at least ELIZA should work fine, so we would still have AI chatbots, but only the quality ones.
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in reply to Serge 🔻 • • •Chris Siebenmann
in reply to Mitchell Hashimoto • • •@fabrixxm I started with ctrl+fnpb and used them exclusively for a long time¹, but these days you can't pry my cursor keys out of my keyboard. I don't always use them but when I use them I want them.
¹ for various reasons I spent a lot of time in environments where cursor keys weren't available, it was the Ctrl versions or bust. Sometimes I had to use Ctrl-[ too for a non-available/etc ESC.