Your terminal manipulation/navigation setups

8 Your terminal manipulation/navigation setups ☶ ask a11y editors authored by nocoffei 2026-11-03 12:54:55 | 7 comments

8 您的终端操作/导航设置 ☶ ask a11y 编辑，作者：nocoffei，2026-11-03 12:54:55 | 7 条评论

Dear Lobste.rs, over a year after my previous post on mouse free setups, your advice was instrumental to building the tech stack I use today as a disabled person, composed of the Svalboard, Talon Voice, and a fair few extensions for Talon (including ones I’ve written myself.)

亲爱的 Lobste.rs，在我上一篇关于无鼠标设置的文章发布一年多后，你们的建议对我作为一名残障人士构建今天的技术栈起到了至关重要的作用，该技术栈由 Svalboard、Talon Voice 以及不少 Talon 扩展（包括我自己编写的一些）组成。

One aspect of my work and personal life that has remained stubbornly able-bodied has been, surprisingly, my terminal use. Reading, manipulating, and editing the terminal has required keyboard and mouse use at every step: When reading the terminal, scrolling is a must, which demands the use of a physical scrolling device, one of my most consistently difficult actions.

令人惊讶的是，我的工作和个人生活中，有一个方面仍然顽固地依赖于健全人的操作方式，那就是我对终端的使用。阅读、操作和编辑终端的每一步都需要使用键盘和鼠标：在阅读终端时，滚动是必须的，这需要使用物理滚动设备，而这始终是我最困难的操作之一。

When writing a terminal command, things can range from easy to brutal. Talon has a lot of built in terminal commands available, but composing complex commands still requires a great deal of typing. The most irritating aspect to me is editing a previous command, which consists of either holding (Ctrl+) an arrow key and waiting until I hit the right character, often overshooting, and then having to go back the opposite direction with the arrow keys again, OR moving with my mouse and clicking on the correct position.

在编写终端命令时，情况可能从简单到极其困难不等。Talon 有许多内置的终端命令可用，但编写复杂的命令仍然需要大量的打字。对我来说最令人恼火的是编辑之前的命令，这要么需要按住（Ctrl+）方向键并等待直到光标到达正确的字符，往往会按过头，然后不得不再次用方向键向相反方向移动，要么就是用鼠标移动并点击正确的位置。

When manipulating the terminal, this usually winds up boiling down to copy and pasting text from the output. This is universally a fine grained mouse movement to highlight and copy the correct text, often to paste it into the same terminal. Too often I find myself combining the second and third actions, which means a lot of arrow key or mouse movement to get to the position in my command, mouse movement to copy and paste text, and then rinsing and repeating a handful of times.

在操作终端时，这通常归结为从输出中复制和粘贴文本。这普遍需要精细的鼠标移动来高亮并复制正确的文本，通常是为了将其粘贴到同一个终端中。我经常发现自己将第二和第三种操作结合在一起，这意味着需要大量的方向键或鼠标移动来定位到命令中的位置，通过鼠标移动来复制和粘贴文本，然后反复进行多次。

I am fairly convinced there is no true voice first terminal experience— this is something I am hoping to change. In order to accomplish this and maybe make my life easier, I want to know the landscape of how various people interact with their terminals in 2026. I feel like my approach is deeply inefficient and must be missing something obvious…? We’ve had terminals since before mice existed, surely there are better ways.

我相当确信目前还没有真正以语音为先的终端体验——这是我希望改变的事情。为了实现这一目标，或许也能让我的生活更轻松，我想了解 2026 年人们与终端交互的现状。我觉得我的方法效率极低，一定是漏掉了什么显而易见的东西……？在鼠标出现之前我们就已经有了终端，肯定有更好的方法。