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Dictating into a terminal is genuinely risky, and worth understanding before you try. Typally types what you say straight into Terminal — hold a key, talk, let go — so you can dictate anywhere Terminal lets you type.
Written by the team behind Typally. Terminal's own features are described as accurately as we can — check them yourself before switching anything.None. A terminal accepts characters and runs them when a return arrives.
The terminal is the one place where inserted text is not just text. Everything typed is a potential command, and there is no undo. It is also where commit messages and long here-documents get written, which are prose.
In practice people use it for: Commit messages via git commit, here-documents, SSH session notes, and long text in a terminal editor.
Typally runs in the background and types into whatever window has focus, so there is nothing to install inside Terminal:
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Whatever has the cursor receives the text, so click the right place in Terminal before starting.
Hold, talk, release. Long passages are fine.
A dictated return executes whatever is on the line. At a shell prompt, a misheard word becomes a command you did not intend to run.
Typally has one strict rule in a terminal: only ever dictate inside an editor the terminal opened, never at a live prompt. A dictated return executes the line, and there is no undo. Inside your git editor writing a commit message it is genuinely useful; at a shell prompt a misheard word becomes a command.
A developer keeps a hard rule: never speak at a prompt, only inside the editor git opens. Commit messages get longer and more useful, and nothing has ever been executed by accident.
Only dictate inside an editor the terminal opened — a commit message in your git editor, for instance — never at a live shell prompt.
A dictated return executes whatever is on the line. At a shell prompt, a misheard word becomes a command you did not intend to run.
At a live prompt, no — a return executes the line. Inside an editor the terminal launched, yes.
Yes, when your editor opens for it. That is the safe and useful case.
Same rules. It is still a shell that executes what it receives.
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