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As parent said, good IDEs (like IDEA etc) can be customized to no end. You can remap pretty much all "menu" commands to shortcuts, and they have plenty of interfaces to extend their feature-set through plugins and custom commands to invoke the shell or what-have-you.

Honestly, it's not a crime to like nice windows, y'know.

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That's another misconception GUI people seem to have. You can have nice windows and color schemes in Terminal as well (even on Windows is you install MSYS2). Except you get absolute control over your windows layouts and behaviors with tmux and friends. And you don't have to reach for the mouse to interact with any of them.

Looking forward to drop shadows and brushed-metal in tmux, which you shall promptly post. Also fullscreen exposé-like dashboard with previews would be nice.

Like we don't have better things to use our processor cycles on :P. Also, I thought skeuomorphism was dead now?

It doesn't necessarily have to be skeuomorphic, but I like to burn some processor cycles making different things look different, not necessarily brushed-metal attractive. So my todo-list files don't look like my source code files which don't look my terminal windows, which helps me tell what's what.

(And it's beside the point, but brushed metal has been dead for years by now!)

Funny enough, iTerm2 has expose for its tabs, but I never use it. It's just not how I work. Drop shadows are not needed, since in iTerm2 or tmux the entire active windows is brighter and all others become slightly greyed out, so you never confuse what has focus.

Bushed metal on the other hand is not something I want or desire.

> It's just not how I work.

... which means nobody else needs it, right? :)

I never implied that everyone should use the command line or that GUIs are evil or bad. I was just answering the query "why people still use command lines" to the original post.

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