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vim-easymotion for the entire screen. I love it. Useful in numerous ways from accessibility to constrained devices to keyboard-centric navigation.

In the 1980's, there was a thread of animosity directed at GUIs and mice as productivity-killers and providing accessibility to novices that robbed power-users of expressivity and automation as features shifted towards UIs over text mode applications. I think we can agree that with necessary and sufficient software engineering and UX, CLI-UI-API parity is achievable offering an easier learning curve, varying levels of user astuteness, mental models, and expressivity to accomplish a task by having different MVC "views" or "presentations" to interact with software or systems of any sort.



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