piekvorst

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by piekvorst 7mo ago
I think modern terminal emulators and readline-based shells support it. This is not to say that there's nothing to improve. Multiline editing experience suffers, and non-readline shells aren't supported. Those problems were solved
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Indeed, @b[] is for bold, and @t[] is for something else. The joke falls apart, and somehow a piece of my identity goes with it. But thanks for clarifying.
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
I can't reproduce the glob expansion problem. % echo test >'/tmp/hello world' % cat /tmp/hello* test This is bash 5.3.9. Still, I couldn't agree more on limiting IFS. Personally, I
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Even without tab completion, the variable can hold unexpected values due to user error (you don't see the command as a whole), multiple shell windows, or forgotten context. Relying on it even in limited scenarios can train an invisible
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
This reminds me of an excerpt from an old Emacs manual: . . . if you forget which commands deal with windows, just type @b[ESC-?]@t[window]@b[ESC]. This weird command is presented with such a benevolent innocence as if it's th
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Is it just me, or is it an LLM language? The article tries very hard to be correct but somehow lacks experience. I've never used the majority of these tricks for decades, except for brace expansion, process substitutions, and complex r
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
The '-' shortcut is weird. In 'git commit -F -', the '-' is actually /dev/stdin.
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
vi and sed took the s/ syntax from ed, independently of each other.
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Yeah, sam is not universal, but it can solve complex tasks more simply by just running it a few times. The final example already normalizes \n (v/./ c/\n/) in a single pass, but we can make it even simpler by just writin
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Yes, sam can be used on the command line with ssam [1]. It's specific to plan9port [2]. In the original Plan 9, ssam wasn't included because Rob Pike didn't want to give up the X command that handles multiple files [3]:
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
That's exactly right. A few unmentioned details: . The dot (".") never matches newlines, which keeps line-oriented idioms from accidentally spanning newlines [1] . Changes must be sequential and non-overlapping (that's w
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
I prefer sam [1]. Unlike sed, it's not Turing complete, but it is far more elegant to my taste - consider this example from the article: :loop N; s/\n[[:space:]]\+/ /g; t loop; p In sam, the equivalent is:
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
The main difference between Acme and TUI is that Acme is just pure plain text and single cursor, whereas TUI, essentially, emulate terminal hardware of the past. In this respect, TUI is closer to HTML than to plain text.
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
I use Rio, Acme, and occasionally Sam from plan9port [1]. The only major problems are X.org dependency, lack of mouse warping in XWayland (essential for Acme), and slow text rendering on Raspberry Pi 5. [1]: https://9fans.github.
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Any president can go insane and go against the country’s principles. Nobody is perfectly safe from that. The issue with the constitution and declaration is intellectual: it takes centuries to completely override them. And when the president
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
I think the core reasoning is about minimizing its use. I have answered [1] the same question in another thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47395574
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
I suppose, to minimize its use. If annotations have the same syntactic weight as normal statements, such as “if” or “for” statements, there’s a temptation to use them liberally, which is clearly not a good fit for Go. By making them comment
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
> As a US citizen, I must go through the Apple-approved App Store to download / install third-party software. Smells like freedom. If you’re a U.S. citizen, it’s worth studying what this country’s foundational freedom means specific
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Isn't VT220 meant to be extensible? Just the hardware stopped at a certain point.
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Not sure about popularity but Plan 9 has had this for decades, thanks to Plumber [1]. [1]: https://p9f.org/sys/doc/plumb.html
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
This is a basic copy-paste and search function. I admit that your approach is fast but counter that it highlights a failure to make basic functions like copy-paste and search efficient and introduces a whole class of complexity into softwar
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
So, the approach is identical to <a href="example.com">example</a>. In contrast, in Plumber [1], we have things like !98—this text opens pull request no. 98 by passing "!98" to the local server, which kn
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Acme [1] It steps back from the “customize everything” mantra, believing that approach leaves users with an underdeveloped essential system. But it still has two major APIs: one for window manipulation [2], the other for text-based integrat
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
> The thinking child is not antisocial (he is, in fact, the only type of child fit for social relationships). When he develops his first values and conscious convictions, particularly as he approaches adolescence, he feels an intense des
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
I speak two languages (English and Russian) and have never found their name to be awkward. This is the first time, actually, that I've seen somebody say they don't like their name.
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
/bin/ed wouldn't ask your age. It would simply deduce it.
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
The primary value of overlapping windows is spacial memory: you remember where a given window is positioned on a 2D surface. The moment I grasped this I had the “oh boy I sure am glad this window partially overlaps this other window.” (At o
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
We would need it when this era ends. /s
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by piekvorst 7mo ago
Now you can bring the power and convenience of your laptop to iPad with just a single VNC connection. Oh wait…
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by piekvorst 8mo ago
rc [1] replaced it with a far more telling >[1=2] and >[1=] for closing. 1: https://p9f.org/sys/doc/rc.html

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