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Comment · 2 years ago
I've made a similar library called bash-term[1], which is similar, but only has functions for lower-level operations, like moving the cursor to the end of the line, etc. It's also cleaner and has almost no global variables.

[1] https://github.com/bash-bastion/bash-term

Comment · 3 years ago
Glad I could help! It's too bad that my HN post didn't take off.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is the original post to the one[1] that blew up.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35944373

Comment · 3 years ago
Oh, so _this_ is why I've been getting so many hits...

I was the original creator and the original post[1] was from a day ago. Glad to see it is helpful!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35940043

Comment · 3 years ago
Ctrl+K is often used to perform any kind of action. On Discord, Slack, GitHub, etc. let you perform any action with this hotkey. It's also a generic search, as website searches implemented with Algolia use this by default.

Ctrl+/ is usually used to show all the keyboard shortcuts, or at least the most common ones. Usable on Discord, Slack, VSCode, etc.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is the kind of stuff I describe in my semantic hotkeys[1] piece. There isn't a really good way to define hotkeys for web apps across websites. In lieu of a browser spec (for now), or a non-normative recommendation, there needs to be convention under no uncertain terms about which keys do what.

We already have Ctrl+K and Ctrl+/, I think it's time to formalize these conventions, and more! There is a gap of semantic interoperability across websites that needs some fixin'.

[1] https://hyperupcall.github.io/blog/posts/semantic-hotkeys/

Comment · 3 years ago
I'd say bashrc and profile and friends are one of the few examples in which using hardcoded paths is OK. Same with SSH, GPG, and PAM.

But when people are talking about compliance, and hardcoding very few people are talking about those applications - there are hundreds of other applications do the wrong thing, and some scripts hardcode things as a result.

Comment · 3 years ago
What are you talking about? When people say the "XDG spec", they are usually referring to the XDG Base Directory Specification, but there are other specifications from XDG - are you talking about a different one?

Because the XDG Base Directory Specification does not dictate about how files should be saved - whether in Pictures/, Documents/, or anything else...

Comment · 4 years ago
yes - not all Linux distros do this
Comment · 4 years ago
This is excellent!

Over the years, I've been pleased to see that more and more distributions are writing their disk images and the like to the ESP. (Previously, dd'd USB images for distro installing _required_ the creation of a /boot partition)

The logical next step would be to standardize everything through systemd, and ensure all boot images are autodiscoverable and automatically bootable.

It's been somewhat frustrating for distributions to install GRUB, hijacking the previous prioritized boot PE, and have entries for other installed Linux distributions missing.

Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you - this is a basic prerequisite for any productivity app imo
Comment · 4 years ago
That sounds amazing - there are some similarities with Amie, but customizable views is something I'm looking forward to try out

Thank you - it's quite unfortunate that there isn't a "free plan"

Comment · 4 years ago
Just signed up and it seems it is not possible to use this on Linux. Disappointing... Is Linux support planned?

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