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This question probably identifies me as a dinosaur, but ... is there a user manual? I didn't see one in the README or on the web site.

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Hey, you greybeard. I couldn't find a manual either on first glance but, hey, we know about Github stars and see many colorful emoji and symbols on the frontpage.

No, irony left aside. I also miss the clean, boring but highly useful landing pages of old-school utility programs. A short description and a well written man page was all we needed, plus some screenshots for TUI/GUI programs.

My feeling is that especially Rust enthusiasts like emoji, colors and banners a lot. But maybe I am also just getting old...

I learned Perl as a first programming language, and to this day I maintain that their documentation is better than that of any other language I've tried. Putting a synopsis with example syntax at the very beginning is, IMO, the ideal.

Example at [1]. I can take this and run with it, after reading for less than 15 seconds I know enough to start working.

[1] https://metacpan.org/release/TIMB/DBI-1.616/view/DBI.pm

Larry’s background probably had a lot to do with the quality of his documentation.

Any time I see an emoji, I just want to turn away. I don’t know why I’m so resistant to them. Possibly because I feel I can’t take anyone seriously who would bother to pull up an on-screen keyboard just to add a little rocket ship to a line for almost no reason.

A couple years ago I had them always at the ready, right there on my Touch Bar! I mean, what's the point of having a Touch Bar if you can't even type a :Rocket: on it?

Edit: HN did not like my emoji.

A lot of sites interpret stuff like :rocket: as emojis, and even have autocomplete.

That and they attempt to communicate complex ideas with a series of faces that one might make when encountering the subject. Like should we interpret a persons vomit emoji as a distaste for a particular concept, or just for big words in general? Who knows?

That's your personal preference, of course, but expressing emotion in text has been around since the dawn of the internet. Emojis are just a more expressive form of emoticons, and I <3 them, but I agree that they can be annoying if overused. :-)

I have a hotkey that launches a bash script that pipes all emojis & their descriptors into fzf (terminal fuzzy search utility), which pipes out the selection into the clipboard :)

Oh? Do share, please? I need this every now and then. Granted probably 3 times a week but still.

start from this https://github.com/gotbletu/shownotes/blob/master/fzf_speed/...

Took a quick look: VERY impressive, thank you?

Have you tried finding a way to get your OS to supply you with the total list of emojis? That's the only thing I'd try to improve after I took a quick look.

personally, I'm on Mojave, so my OS doesn't even have the latest Unicode table. however, the full tables are available from various sources. including Unicode's official site: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-list.html

Not affiliated with the project, but just took a look at their readme. It literally lists how to install it on every single platform, how to launch it, what features it has, keyboard shotcuts and troubleshooting steps.

I thought it was a great readme. It is weird how you guys dismissed the whole thing just because the readme has emojis.

I am not a fan of overusing emoji myself, but how did you manage to involve Rust enthusiasts will forever remain a mystery...

https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet

I was looking for a manual as well. I kinda like looking through a manual to see if I'm interested before installing.

Oh, dear dinosaur friend, user manuals are so last millennium! Who needs them when you have the power of exploration and experimentation at your fingertips? Embrace the digital age and dive right in. You’ll figure it out in no time!

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