`npm outdated` is a useful command that colour-codes output based on semantic versioning compatibility.
I wonder if time information would help too? If I'm on 1.0.1 and 1.0.5 is the latest, but 1.0.1 came out in 2010, that's useful knowledge.
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I would *love* a terminal emulator that treated each command as an atomic unit, so I can efficiently scroll between them.
Line-based scrolling is annoying when you've just run a command that output 1,000 lines.
Do any such tools exist?
One nice feature of cargo that I wasn't previously aware of: you don't need to do anything after updating your Cargo.toml.
In npm, you need to remember to `npm i` after changing package.json. It's not declarative and the state can get out of sync.
Trying the nix CLI today, and I'm seriously impressed with the formatting of its --help output.
Indented warnings, italics, bullets, even adding a left border to code snippets! It's a nice reminder to take full advantage of terminal features to help the reader.
