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This is super cool, brings back memories of tinkering. It's funny that this whole persistent-document-shell thing was a bit lost to history for a while. It wa
by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
This is super cool, brings back memories of tinkering.
It's funny that this whole persistent-document-shell thing was a bit lost to history for a while.
It was very familiar to me from using the Sussex Poplog [0] environment at uni in the early '90s; that worked very similarly. But after MPW I didn't really use environments like it.
Until I played with Jupyter, which is conceptually similar. It's nice to have this sort of environment back.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poplog
- wrs 5y agoI’d love it if somebody could figure out how to get the MPW Shell paradigm to work in MacOS/Linux today. It’s not just a shell in an editor, as found in emacs/vi/etc. It actually overlays the edit buffers on the file system namespace as seen by the tools. For example, you can do something like sometool MyFile.§ which means sometool gets the contents of the selection in MyFile as a file input. So there’s no difference between editor commands and tools when you’re scripting.