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I agree with your second idea. I don't see how it's different from Vim or Emacs.

agumonkey 12y ago
It's just a good idea that was never (AFAIK) done for shell only interactions. Often good to be able to have progressive enhancement (people not allowed to install emacs say).
brianpgordon 12y ago
What I was impressed by is git checkout $(git branch | percol) to select the branch name interactively from a menu. How would you do that in Vim or Emacs?
- 0x0 12y ago
  Zsh completion with the menu style can do that, git checkout <tab> and you get a browseable list of branch names.
  - agumonkey 12y ago
    or dmenu
    - dhamidi 12y ago
      Funnily enough, I recently implemented something akin to percol: https://github.com/dhamidi/tmenu https://github.com/dhamidi/tmenu It actually tries to be dmenu for the terminal.
      - agumonkey 12y ago
        Glorious, I was about to start a similar thing (in python though). Time to play with your toy. ps: I'd add a readline/inputrc alias for '| tmenu '
        dhamidi 12y ago
        Would you mind sharing what that alias would look like and do? I can only imagine it appending the string "| tmenu" to the current line, eventually pressing Return for the user as well.
        agumonkey 12y ago
        $ bind '"\C-L": "\| less -S \C-j"' Warning: seems like GNU readline isn't case sensitive so C-L === C-l thus, in this example, C-l default behavior (clear screen?) is overridden. I didn't RTFM so trust yourself.
        agumonkey 12y ago
        Also, a redditor told me about slmenu (dmenu parody for shell) http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/283ziw/tmenu_dmenu_for_ttyshell/ci7cat1 http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/283ziw/tmenu_dmenu_fo...
      - dhamidi 12y ago
        Update: the README now describes the available key bindings and gives more usage examples.
    - 0x0 12y ago
      Google says it's an x11 app? I prefer something that works on random ssh connections and is more "inline" to the current command context
      - agumonkey 12y ago
        Ha what a moron I am. The funniest part is that I was ranting on #python about the need for a tui only version of that. ps: even funnier, someone just posted a personal project doing just that.
- chrismonsanto 12y ago
  > How would you do that in [...] Emacs? Use Magit, which is probably the best Git client anyway.
- dhamidi 12y ago
  Regarding Emacs: git ships with Emacs integration <https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/emacs> https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/emacs>. Note that most likely git.el is not on your load-path. After it is loaded, you can use M-x git-status to interactively stage, diff and commit files. In the git-status buffer you can checkout a branch with C-c C-o. If helm is installed, you'll get something similar to percol right in Emacs.
felixr 12y ago
Check out vipe, which is included in Joey Hess' moreutils [1]. It lets you edit a pipe in vim. You can use it the same way as percol. [1] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/

It's just a good idea that was never (AFAIK) done for shell only interactions. Often good to be able to have progressive enhancement (people not allowed to install emacs say).

brianpgordon 12y ago

What I was impressed by is git checkout $(git branch | percol) to select the branch name interactively from a menu. How would you do that in Vim or Emacs?

0x0 12y ago
Zsh completion with the menu style can do that, git checkout <tab> and you get a browseable list of branch names.
- agumonkey 12y ago
  or dmenu
  - dhamidi 12y ago
    Funnily enough, I recently implemented something akin to percol: https://github.com/dhamidi/tmenu https://github.com/dhamidi/tmenu It actually tries to be dmenu for the terminal.
    - agumonkey 12y ago
      Glorious, I was about to start a similar thing (in python though). Time to play with your toy. ps: I'd add a readline/inputrc alias for '| tmenu '
      - dhamidi 12y ago
        Would you mind sharing what that alias would look like and do? I can only imagine it appending the string "| tmenu" to the current line, eventually pressing Return for the user as well.
        agumonkey 12y ago
        $ bind '"\C-L": "\| less -S \C-j"' Warning: seems like GNU readline isn't case sensitive so C-L === C-l thus, in this example, C-l default behavior (clear screen?) is overridden. I didn't RTFM so trust yourself.
        agumonkey 12y ago
        Also, a redditor told me about slmenu (dmenu parody for shell) http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/283ziw/tmenu_dmenu_for_ttyshell/ci7cat1 http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/283ziw/tmenu_dmenu_fo...
    - dhamidi 12y ago
      Update: the README now describes the available key bindings and gives more usage examples.
  - 0x0 12y ago
    Google says it's an x11 app? I prefer something that works on random ssh connections and is more "inline" to the current command context
    - agumonkey 12y ago
      Ha what a moron I am. The funniest part is that I was ranting on #python about the need for a tui only version of that. ps: even funnier, someone just posted a personal project doing just that.
chrismonsanto 12y ago
> How would you do that in [...] Emacs? Use Magit, which is probably the best Git client anyway.
dhamidi 12y ago
Regarding Emacs: git ships with Emacs integration <https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/emacs> https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/emacs>. Note that most likely git.el is not on your load-path. After it is loaded, you can use M-x git-status to interactively stage, diff and commit files. In the git-status buffer you can checkout a branch with C-c C-o. If helm is installed, you'll get something similar to percol right in Emacs.

felixr 12y ago

Check out vipe, which is included in Joey Hess' moreutils [1]. It lets you edit a pipe in vim. You can use it the same way as percol. [1] https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/