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Comment by pvnick | Hacker News Reader

Lots of negativity and one-uppery in these comments. I just wanted to say great job, keep up the good work. You're making everybody's lives easier, either directly or indirectly, by pushing the envelope here :)

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I see like 90% of positive comments... 10% of criticism is too much? without it, its easy to get lost into the "everything's great" and 6 month later everyone complains about their new kde4/gnome3/unity etc fiasco.

For example, personally, I believe the completion belongs to the shell not the terminal, and i'd rather not use the mouse on a terminal's displayed text except for copy/paste. Doesn't mean its not cool.

When I replied the positive:negative ratio you just described was inversed. Thankfully it has improved.

It shouldn't be forced, but some of us do use the mouse on a terminal window. I have more of a keyboard 'nipple' but it's conveniently right there when I'm typing and I don't have to move out of a standard typing position to use it.

I call that thing a nubbin. I don't even know why.

I agree, this looks really cool! These are the kinds of articles I really like seeing on here, but I feel like people may be discouraged to post these types of things because the top comments are always "Well this sucks because I use X" or "This will never work because Y", or "Didn't Z already do this!?"

Lots of people here are making really cool stuff, and I love hearing about it! Keep it up!

Really great work, I'm all for it. I've been wanting terminals / shells to move forward with usability for decades now, but have never had time to do it myself. I'm 100% behind any effort in this regard at all. I'll be happy to contribute time an money to a project like this. Thanks for picking up the ball!

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