Comment by eviks

Comment by eviks 4 days ago

Yeah, no, that's a pale imitation that only addresses the one specific example given. But, like, how would you even know what target formats are supported? Break the flow and look it up or simply read the drop-down list? The free type-any-text interface with poor helpers is the worst in accessibility

Which format is the default if no argument is given?

Or more complicated contextual knowledge - if you cut 1sec of a video file, does fish autocomplete to tell you whether the video is reencoded or cut (otherwise) losslessly

Also, what does fish complete to on Windows?

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skydhash 4 days ago

Which flow is being broken here? Especially when the information is easily accessible with `man`.

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eviks 4 days ago

the flow that doesn't require you to open a different tab or cancel a command to `man` your way through dozens of poorly searchable pages of documentation, but allows you to continue translating what you want in your mind into the interface command with delay potentially subsecond interrupts

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- skydhash 4 days ago
  
  Is there kind of rewards for speed running typing ffmpeg flags? Like an advent of ffmpeg?
  I know what I want to do, I don't know how it's being done, but there's a wealth of information that is very accessible. So I just read it.
  It's very easy to type `apropos ffmpeg`. And even if you typed `man ffmpeg`, if you go to the end, you will find related manuals name for more information. And you can always use the pager (`less` in most case) facility for quick search.
  I believe that a lot of frustration comes from people unwilling to learn the conceptual basis of the tools they are using.
  
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  eviks 4 days ago
  
  What's the reward for trivializing real issues and coming up with broken "solutions"?
  > It's very easy to type `apropos ffmpeg`
  No it's not. First, that's not a Windows command, so right off the bat you've cut off the largest OS. Second, your command is naively empty and it's telling that you've given it instead of an actual search query because you wouldn't be able to come up with a great one right away that would result in the correct result at the top - while the correct resuls is "hardcoded" in the field type in the UI. So yeah, go on, find that perfect query and then explain why you think every single user should be able to do the same quickly. Then you can think about how justified your other beliefs are about basic workflow issues you don't understand
  
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NooneAtAll3 4 days ago

"why would one solve the problem with one drop-down menu if you can solve it with 20 minutes of browsing walls of text"
lol

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