> One thing I hate about CLI tool though, is that it's very hard to edit long commands in terminal.
Apart from the "wrap it in a shell script" advice, I would also note that in a bash-like terminal, home and end will jump to the start or the end of the current command buffer, and ctrl-del (or alt-del maybe?) or ctrl-arrow keys usually delete or move the cursor a whole word at a time, which makes it somewhat quicker to work rather than sitting there holding an arrow key or backspce.
Many here probably already know this, some may not!
Thanks, yeah I know these since I use them heavily in editor as well.
Now this got me thinking: the main problem with terminal is that it doesn't seem to support "cut" (and consequently, "paste to replace selection"). So re-arranging a command string is always gonna be a pain regardless the complexity.
I can see why it was this way historically, but not exactly sure why no modern terminal emulator gives this feature, even as optional.
one analogy might be the "cut and accumulate" feature in nano (and probably others) where a line is removed and appended to the clipboard, then you can paste and all those lines will be pasted off the clipboard at once. You could do that at a character level in the shell, if you wanted. No idea if any shells do though.
Apart from the "wrap it in a shell script" advice, I would also note that in a bash-like terminal, home and end will jump to the start or the end of the current command buffer, and ctrl-del (or alt-del maybe?) or ctrl-arrow keys usually delete or move the cursor a whole word at a time, which makes it somewhat quicker to work rather than sitting there holding an arrow key or backspce.
Many here probably already know this, some may not!