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They are a challenge for composition, often.

Great for discoverability though, and that doesn't require graphics, just context.

There should be a button I can push in my shell that lets me ask "what does the token at cursor mean," and a button that lets me type a plain language search string that wires down to a contextual search (i.e. I'm in the middle of typing out "grep" I should be able to ask "how do I search folders?").

We didn't have the tools to build this when grep was invented; we have them now.



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