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by hyperupcall 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion - agreed, I'll make that change
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
Oh right I forgot about those - I set some environment variables so I don't see any of those except for .pki And in my opinion .ssh and .gnupg are okay since in some contexts, the "XDG variables" haven't been initialized
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
what other "alternatives" are you speaking of on Linux?
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
Which software in particular? Given my experience, it is well within reach, besides a few exceptions including Firefox/Thunderbird, etc, and one relating to Chromium-based browsers. The trick is to use the XDG Base Dir Spec, only if th
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
strongly disagree - as of 2022, more apps follow the XDG Base Directory Specification than not - in fact, by a wide margin. So by "doing dirty" in your users home directory, you're going against the grain of the ecosystem. It
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
I completely agree! That's why I created this site: https://xdgbasedirectoryspecification.com . We need some place where people can immediately understand the practical benefit, and the minimum ask of their users. Of course,
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
Do the acts of learning Latin and writing letters truly represent the peak quality of thought? I'd think that technological ability and thought quality would improve in unison. Better thought leads to technological leaps, which potenti
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
Your point about plugins is valid, but I believe a good middleground is having the plugins in core, but disabling them by default. Having an interface to enable particular plugins or plugin groups would be useful in this scenario too. I tho
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
Honestly, I only find Makefiles useful when I have a tiny C/C++ project and need stuff just to compile quickly and easily without the overhead of a real build system. For literally everything else, I found myself using it more as a tas
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
Asdf is a good idea in theory and pretty okay considering it's in Bash, but the execution is quite lackluster. I'm glad the maintainer is focusing on performance, but there are other areas that prevent me from using the tool: - as
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by hyperupcall 4y ago
> However, I feel a bit sad at the state of general purpose build tools (Bazel/Pants/Buck, make, GitHub Actions, Maven, Nix) or cloud-based IDEs (Cloud9, Codespaces). These tools come off as too complex to operate and build on
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
Wow, 8 thousand lines is pretty insane. When my bashrc started to get long, I started to separate things into different files and source them. And then that got too complicated so then I made them separate executables with different directo
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
This is a neat idea, but I'm not sure I see the need for this specific tool. Shellcheck covers essentially all the errors that are mentioned in the Google Style Guide so I'd just be using that instead. And as the Guide itself, it
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
Sure POSIX shell scripting is a good skill to have, but I would hardly consider it good for a text editor to have that skillset be commonplace within their configuration language. Shelling out incurs a non-zero execution cost. For example w
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
When I tried Kakoune, it seemed like a really cool idea and implementation, but it didn't seem like their configuration language had basic functions for string manipulation, path testing, etc. So a common pattern with plugins etc. was
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
I had this same idea, but just haven't gotten around to implementing it - so thank you for this reference! This also gives me the perfect excuse for finally getting around to implement automatic dynamic loading of Bash builtins for my
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
Having been recently converted into a Tcl user, studying this code will definitely help me improve my skill in the language! Thanks for the link
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
I second this! Their explanations of different product SKUs are quite helpful, even if you don't end up purchasing from them
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
I agree that it would be nice to get native syntax highlighting for strings, especially for languages where regular expressions are not a first class feature However, I would realllyyy not want to have a more verbose regex dialect. For me a
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
This is exactly what I'm looking for! After creating hundreds of markdown notes with Obsidian, it became rather hard to sift through and query knowledge. I can't wait to try Dendron out!
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
I'm quite happy to see that something Bash-related is on Hacker News! Unfortunately it seems that I don't really agree with much the author... While I do agree that it would be nice to be able to have 'local' functions a
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by hyperupcall 5y ago
I don't understand the confusion. I thought it was called WSL because WSL1 was just that - a Windows subsystem that acted as a sort of compatibility later for Linux. And then when they released WSL2 (which replaced the old model with a