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by xiaq 9y ago
Good point about bindings and completion scripts. Binding commands themselves are not big problems, the problem is replicating readline commands, there are loads of those. I'm not sure how much work one needs to do to implement things
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by xiaq 9y ago
Hi, Elvish author here :) I am really glad that you find interesting, but I also wonder which aspects of Elvish do you find awkward? Like Fish, friendly experience out of the box is also one of the goals of Elvish.
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by xiaq 9y ago
Interprocess pipeline is a difficult problem only because there is no standard encoding. Elvish has pairs of builtin commands like from-json and to-json; so if your command takes JSON and writes JSON, you can use it in a pipeline like:
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by xiaq 9y ago
FWIW, POSIX emulation is on my TODO list: https://github.com/elves/elvish/issues/205 Not sure whether I will actually get to it though. Parsing sounds like a lot of headache. Your work is very impressive, but
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Kakoune code editor(kakoune.org)
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Elvish 0.11 released(elvish.io)
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by xiaq 9y ago
> It's not so much a linux distribution as a build-system that can build an entire linux distro from source. Isn't a Linux distro largely defined by its packaging system, which in turn is largely defined by how software is buil
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by xiaq 9y ago
They can travel through the air (which was how DDT ended up in Antarctica).
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by xiaq 9y ago
Shameless plug: Elvish is another non-POSIX shell aiming at interactive friendliness and saner scripting: https://elvish.io/ Some highlights: * It comes with helpful interactive features, like syntax highlighting and on-the
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Clink: Powerful Bash-style command line editing for cmd.exe(mridgers.github.io)
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by xiaq 9y ago
I wonder why he didn't use the Builder-like approach used in the context package ( https://golang.org/pkg/context/ ). It is more verbose to implement, but since this error package is used throughout upspin it s
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by xiaq 9y ago
Go's rejection of exceptions comes from the philosophical ground that errors should be expected no matter how unlikely they are, and the programmer must make a conscious effort to think about how to handle errors - either by attempting
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Error handling in Upspin(commandcenter.blogspot.com)
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by xiaq 9y ago
Elvish author here, I am glad that you like it. Feel free to drop me questions :)
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by xiaq 9y ago
I am intrigued by your comparison. Does Emacs also provide a declarative UI framework, or do you have to work with controls yourself (like gtk or qt)?
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Elvish Newsletter, Sep 2017 Issue(elvish.io)
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by xiaq 9y ago
I don’t think it does. Third party clients are not entirely banned, but will get random logouts from time to time, making it more painful to use. A little background here: WeChat has the concept of “master device” and “slave device”. Master
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by xiaq 9y ago
It was on homepage a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14698187
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by xiaq 9y ago
Shameless plug: https://elvish.io I cannot claim that it is better than zsh in every aspect yet, but it is getting there.
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by xiaq 9y ago
A Unix shell that hopefully sucks less than more traditional shells: https://github.com/elves/elvish
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by xiaq 9y ago
Hmm that's also possible. Only those who have studied the history of Esperanto can give us a definite answer, I suppose.
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by xiaq 9y ago
AFAIK it is a notation present in both the Lisp family and the ML family. In Lisp it means an empty list, and some dialects conflate it with nil. In ML it is a 0-tuple, but I don't know enough ML to say its relationship with nil but it
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by xiaq 9y ago
One interesting influence of Chinese on Esperanto is that you now have two ways to use adjectives as predicates. To say "Anna is beautiful" you can use the copular verb est: Anna est bela. Which is like English and most Eur
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by xiaq 9y ago
Well, my point is that everyone can do this, ncurses is no black magic :)
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by xiaq 9y ago
If you keep an internal representation of the terminal (which you should totally do when building a terminal toolkit), you can just update whatever changed. It is not hard with cursor positioning sequences.
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by xiaq 9y ago
Some terminal emulators / shells use some heuristics, but the most reliable way is to use a combination of a terminal emulator and shell that support bracketed paste mode. This article ( https://cirw.in/blog/bracket
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Elvish Newsletter, July 2017 Issue(elvish.io)
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by xiaq 9y ago
There is no plan yet. However, there is a plan to eliminate cgo dependency, which can facilitate the possible Windows port. Any contribution is welcome! :)
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by xiaq 9y ago
It is lisp-like, and I am going to make the old arguments that it is actually superior because it supports multiple arguments :) ~> + 1 7 6 324 234 ▶ 572
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by xiaq 9y ago
It is fair to say that Elvish is inspired by PowerShell. It is much more lightweight and much closer to traditional Unix shells, though.

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