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I read the whole README and I still have no idea what this does. Something about bookmarking websites and searches in some sort of configurable menu?

ohyes 7y ago
I read the source (it isn’t that long), it seems you can bookmark an arbitrary Unix command in a configurable menu. Kinda neat, don’t see myself using this however.
4lch3m1st 7y ago
Hello, I'm the author. I just found out someone put this in HN again, I hope I can explain. This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or dmenu frontend. Once you bind it a key shortcut, rofi/dmenu will come up asking you what to do. Right now I can directly access my favorite websites, open my favorite programs, do web search (and also switch web engine), all without touching the browser directly. The idea is to group a lot of things in a lightweight script, and have a keyboard-only interaction with no extra extensions or programs. I agree that the README is a little poor right now, and screenshots/gifs would also help on this regard. I'll start working on it pretty soon.
- nerdponx 7y ago
  Maybe "rofi/dmenu scripting and configuration layer written in Common Lisp" might be an appropriate tagline?
  - jolmg 7y ago
    Right. With the current title my first impression was that it was like a Unix shell with Common Lisp somehow as the shell language. I mean the shell is the tool Unix power-users mostly use to automate tasks. It might be a good idea to add screenshots or a gif or something to the README, and I see they've realized that.
- spdegabrielle 7y ago
  Awesome! Nice work.
- svetlyak40wt 7y ago
  Hm, I have similar project, but for OSX users: https://github.com/40ants/cl-bitbar https://github.com/40ants/cl-bitbar It is a library to write plugins for https://getbitbar.com https://getbitbar.com

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I read the whole README and I still have no idea what this does. Something about bookmarking websites and searches in some sort of configurable menu?

by jdormit 7y ago

ohyes 7y ago
I read the source (it isn’t that long), it seems you can bookmark an arbitrary Unix command in a configurable menu. Kinda neat, don’t see myself using this however.
4lch3m1st 7y ago
Hello, I'm the author. I just found out someone put this in HN again, I hope I can explain. This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or dmenu frontend. Once you bind it a key shortcut, rofi/dmenu will come up asking you what to do. Right now I can directly access my favorite websites, open my favorite programs, do web search (and also switch web engine), all without touching the browser directly. The idea is to group a lot of things in a lightweight script, and have a keyboard-only interaction with no extra extensions or programs. I agree that the README is a little poor right now, and screenshots/gifs would also help on this regard. I'll start working on it pretty soon.
- nerdponx 7y ago
  Maybe "rofi/dmenu scripting and configuration layer written in Common Lisp" might be an appropriate tagline?
  - jolmg 7y ago
    Right. With the current title my first impression was that it was like a Unix shell with Common Lisp somehow as the shell language. I mean the shell is the tool Unix power-users mostly use to automate tasks. It might be a good idea to add screenshots or a gif or something to the README, and I see they've realized that.
- spdegabrielle 7y ago
  Awesome! Nice work.
- svetlyak40wt 7y ago
  Hm, I have similar project, but for OSX users: https://github.com/40ants/cl-bitbar https://github.com/40ants/cl-bitbar It is a library to write plugins for https://getbitbar.com https://getbitbar.com