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zsh + oh-my-zsh. Better than any GUI.

But thus guy lost me when he said he "wasn't any good at the Terminal". And using Spotlight over Alfred? Launchpad? who uses Launchpad?

Crazy.



Allow me to point you to prezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto, which is a lightweight version of oh-my-zsh. I couldn't stand waiting 10+ seconds to open a new prompt...


Bless you, though this does mean I'm going to have to learn a whole new set of shortcuts.


Excellent, now I don't suppose you know of a stripped down Janus?



Emacs.


Alfred is using Spotlight under the hood. The searching is basically no better. I prefer Quicksilver which has a much richer search capability.

Alfred 2 has some nice workflow features though, I've been experimenting with it.




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