https://thetextsmith.com/blog/Recent content in Under the Anvil on The TextsmithHugoen-gbIshe ChinyokaSun, 01 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://thetextsmith.com/blog/the-textsmith-1-0/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0200https://thetextsmith.com/blog/the-textsmith-1-0/<p>Today The Textsmith 1.0 is out. It is a Linux terminal for anyone who works with text, commands and the shell, and it is free software, under the GNU General Public License.</p> <h2 id="why-another-terminal">Why another terminal</h2> <p>I read my screen with Orca. Terminals on Linux mostly work with a screen reader, but rarely well: press Enter and the prompt is read to you again before the output; press Tab and you hear the whole line instead of what was completed; and when a command prints a page of text, the way back to it is Orca&rsquo;s review keys, line by line, through everything else on the screen.</p>https://thetextsmith.com/blog/one-argument-two-places/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0200https://thetextsmith.com/blog/one-argument-two-places/<p>Much of my day ends with copying a folder to my drive. The command is always the same shape:</p> <div class="code-block"> <button class="code-copy" type="button" hidden aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"> <span class="code-copy-label" aria-hidden="true">Copy</span> </button> <pre tabindex="0"><code>rclone sync Audiobooks drive:Library/Audiobooks --progress</code></pre> </div><p>As a bookmark in The Textsmith it has two places, the folder here and the folder on the drive:</p> <div class="code-block"> <button class="code-copy" type="button" hidden aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"> <span class="code-copy-label" aria-hidden="true">Copy</span> </button> <pre tabindex="0"><code>#send: rclone sync &lt;from&gt; drive:Library/&lt;to&gt; --progress</code></pre> </div><p>So I would type <code>send Audiobooks Audiobooks</code>. Nearly every time the two names were the same, but not always, so a single place used twice, <code>&lt;dir&gt; ... &lt;dir&gt;</code>, would have taken away the one time they differ.</p>