On 06/10/2017 20:38, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2017-10-06, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote:
For sort, there is no real need. You use a text editor to create
your data. Then use existing file-based sort.
I sort streams on stdin far more often than I sort named files.
So what's been established is that 'sort' is useful for a text stream
that already exists as a file or is the output of another process.
What hasn't been established is why how this works this has to influence
the design of simple text-based dialogues, real ones where there will
likely be an actual user tapping the keys in real time.
The only tenuous connection I can see, is that if 'sort' is run without
any piped or redirected input, it will resort to the keyboard. Even
though that method is not user-friendly and hardly anyone ever uses it
in that mode. So that same unfriendly technique should be the model for
text dialogues everywhere.
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