I agree about large commands being hard to follow. I tried solving this by adding the ability to navigate between commands. Right now clicking the command takes you to a page that displays that command options, but I can change it to the equivalent of navigating to it with the arrows at the top. There might be something better to do UI wise, though.
Possible additions:
- Something that users of the service could add commands to and the community could up vote for grading on technical difficulty.
- Also a "shell command of the day" type of mailer service would be amazing :)
See:
I second the idea in here that the command should somehow stay visible on screen as you scroll down, but is had an even crazier idea: what if you translated a command into paragraph form at the top as a summary?
I might explain `$ grep -nr` to another person as: "search recursively within all files and subdirectories in the current folder and display the results with line numbers" or I might describe `$ du -sh | sort -nr` as ”display the disk used by files and folders in the current directory using human-readable file sizes and sort the output from largest to smallest"
Your tool provides all of this information already, I wonder what it would take to get it that final step to put it into laymans terms while still showing the breakdown of the actual command (which is truly the only way to learn to use it).
Congrats on making such a great tool, I can't wait to tell my friends tomorrow :)