The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again

It took little under a decade for the headline feature developer Jon Skinner added to Sublime Text’s second version to become one of the defining features of this decade’s software. “Goto Anything” is how it started, a search pane to jump to other files. Open a folder, press CMD/Ctrl+P, start typing to see a list of matching files, then press Enter to jump to it. Seems simple enough: You think of a file you need, and without leaving the keyboard can switch to that file and continue work. With...