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Currently, stderr is shown more or less in real-time and stdout is presented only after a sub-process has ended. This means stuff like vim launches but the user must edit files blindly, making it virtually unusable. Similarly, dnf will seemingly hang indefinitely as it waits for a user to y/n confirm the changes. We need to present both stderr and stdout in realtime and, ideally, capture stdout separately in case it may be useful for piping later.

Description:
Running CHDIR/CD without any arguments gives help text and doesn't change directory. Generally, on POSIX systems, this should change directory to the user's home.

Current behavior:

> $ CHDIR
CD <DIRECTORY>

Expected behavior:
CHDIR changes current working directory to ENVIRON$("HOME")

Steps to reproduce:
CHDIR ~/Projects

Expected behavior:
Changes directory to /home//Projects/

Actual behavior:
Replies CD <DIRECTORY> and directory is not changed.

Being able to list directory contents has been a longstanding TODO for qbsh. It's time to make that happen.

Currently, ls and dir work but only as bare sub-process calls. With a bit of creativity, we should be able to do this natively.