XKCD Deploys Command Line Interface 288
ipquickly was one of a large number of users to note that the best on-line comic has just got a little better with the addition of a command line interface. You can also sign the petition to make the CLI permanent.
Dear Slashdot, (Score:5, Interesting)
that was funny. Learn from him.
Whatever you do don't "go south" (Score:3, Interesting)
The new format is a bit more adventurous than it looks at first blush.
Re:No tab completion! (Score:3, Interesting)
That's okay. They made up for it by occasionally disabling your backspace key, though it would have been better if they had inserted ^H, too. Or maybe that was just a random glitch.
Shutdown? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Dear Slashdot, (Score:5, Interesting)
Flamewar time!
guest@xkcd:/$ vi
You should really use emacs.
guest@xkcd:/$ emacs
You should really use vim.
guest@xkcd:/$ ed
You are not a diety.
guest@xkcd:/$ nano
You should really use an editor.
Re:Dear Slashdot, (Score:4, Interesting)
Also, Arial? WTF, Slashdot? At least pick Verdana or Georgia in the stylesheets, two decent web fonts that ship with Windows. And why haven't we ever been able to post limited pre-formatted snippets of code? Not to mention some sort of glyph coverage beyond ASCII...?
Re:Dear Slashdot, (Score:5, Interesting)
Even better:
guest@xkcd:/$ whoami
You are Richard Stallman.
Also, a rather weird command execution:
guest@xkcd:/$ kill
Terminator deployed to 1984
But,
guest@xkcd:/$ kill 1
Unrecognized command. Type "help" for assistance.
Command parser definitely needs some work
guest@xkcd:/$ sudo -i
sudo: -i: command not found
Also I demand, while, for, if and which.
Possible bug? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Dear Slashdot, (Score:4, Interesting)
Right now for me it is:
font-family:arial,sans-serif;
Which is arial for me and anyone that has it installed, regardless of your browsers default choice (Calibri here) . If you are getting Helvetica you are probably using a mac.
Brings up a interesting point, is there an addon/other way to make Firefox not use arial even if its installed and the page explicitly requests it?
Re:Yes, but (Score:3, Interesting)
my boss hated it.
Re:retro (Score:3, Interesting)
I think that is quite possibly the worst possible way something like this could possibly have been implemented. Congrats.