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nano — Friendly Terminal Text Editor

GNU's small, on-screen-hinted terminal text editor — the default modal-free alternative to vi/emacs that you can drive without ever learning a command vocabulary.
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macOS CLI — Command Line Reference

Comprehensive macOS terminal reference covering file management, processes, networking, Homebrew, defaults, diskutil, launchctl, pbcopy/pbpaste, open, say, and power-user recipes.
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Windows Terminal — Profiles, Keybindings, Schemes

Configure Windows Terminal — settings.json structure, profiles for pwsh/cmd/wsl/ssh, keybindings, colour schemes, panes, and the wt.exe CLI.
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Chalk — Terminal string styling for Node

Apply ANSI colours, backgrounds, and text styles to terminal output in Node.js using Chalk's chainable API, plus comparisons with picocolors and patterns for building polished CLI UX.
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fish — Friendly Interactive Shell

Comprehensive fish shell reference covering syntax, variables, functions, abbreviations, completions, config files, path management, prompt customization, Fisher plugins, fish 4.x features (Rust rewrite), and migration from bash/zsh.
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tmux — Terminal Multiplexer

Run multiple persistent terminal sessions, windows, and panes inside one shell. Covers the session/window/pane mental model, default keybindings, copy-mode, and a minimal tmux.conf.
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vim — Modal Text Editor

Bram Moolenaar's modal editor. Covers modes, verb-noun grammar, text objects, registers, marks, windows, search-and-replace, quickfix, macros, configuration, and a high-value baseline .vimrc.
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typer — CLI Apps with Type Hints

Build command-line interfaces using Python type annotations with Typer. Covers commands, options, arguments, subcommands, callbacks, rich output, and testing.
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click — CLI Builder

Build command-line interfaces with click using decorators. Covers commands, options, arguments, groups, prompts, and progress bars.
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rich — Beautiful Terminal Output

Make terminal output beautiful with Rich. Covers styled print, Console, tables, progress bars, syntax highlighting, live displays, and the rich-cli command.
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macOS

Command-line tools, system utilities, Homebrew, Finder tricks, and macOS-specific development workflows.
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