Finally, a shell that has the past trail off below (revchron/blog-style) rather than up above (typewriter/terminal-style)!
printed in any other way...
would want their shell output
I never understood why anyone
Yes, what a great innovation!On screens, freshest/latest-on-top makes more sense, and is just as easy to effect. Inherently online forms, like blogs and newsfeeds, have already inverted their preferred mapping of time-to-vertical-position. I predict many interactive shells and chatrooms will also invert soon.
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As each generation spends more time with keyboarded/gestural/voice inputs for flexible screens, the old mechnical habit – append new at-bottom – will fade, with more applications embracing new-item (and new-line-insert) at-top.
Regarding shells, do you mean your eye tracking would have to zig-zag? If so, imagine a completely inverted shell/terminal, at the unit of individual lines. You'd only have to scrollbar-back in the exact same situations as in a classic terminal: when more than one screen of output resulted. And your eye tracking for smaller bursts of output will require the same reversals and vertical-magnitudes as before: just in the opposite direction. So once you habituate to the inversion, the differences that remain are:
(1) 'up' means 'newer', consistent with other screen-native scrollable information feeds
(2) your eyes' 'home row' stays near the top of your screen – closer to looking at the world above the screen, rather than the hands/keyboard/ground below
Both these seem like wins to me... far from slam-dunks, but enough to chip, chip, chip away at the traditional language practices over time.
We don't just "habituate to" reading backwards while everything else in the world still reads top-down.
And for that reason you don't break fundamental conventions like our natural reading direction that have evolved over centuries unless you have a tad bit less ridiculous justification than "looking at the world above the screen".
Let's check back in 100 years, we'll see who's right.
We've been reading top-down for well over 2000 years, since the very beginnings of writing, in almost all languages. If you really believe twitter and touchscreen-gadgets will overthrow that in not even one generation then you should absolutely share some of the kraut that you are smoking over there.
When a truly new technology arrives, things change a lot in just a few generations, with 'generation' meaning the 20-30 year average gap from birth to being a child-rearing adult.
Yes, on second thought this is absolutely comparable to the invention of horseless carriage and makes perfect sense.