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Reinventing tools for developers, let's start with unix terminal.

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19 pointsniznikpawel20 comments

"Finally, there is no easy way to edit text that we enter in the terminal. Going to the end/beginning of the line depending which place it’s closer to the point you want to edit, and then moving your cursor over one character at a time to get to the destination - sounds familiar? I was so frustrated with that, that I made it a habit to enter all the commands in text editor then copy & paste to the terminal window!"

You do know there are emacs and vi modes for bash, right?

http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php#emacs http://www.hypexr.org/bash_tutorial.php#vi

Seriously, the command line is a fantastic programming environment. Learn more bash and your life will be better.

you just made my day sir. I never knew vi mode existed for bash.

Ha, amazing someone just learned something :).

I use emacs mode for bash, which is default on mac. Then i bind 'option cursor left' to \033b and 'option cursor right' to \033f. Voila, next and previous word using alt+arrow keys. Good enough for me :).

Dude, I owe you a steak. Holy crap.

Someone needs to tell this guy about ctrl-r and !!.

ctrl + R is nice, helpful automation, though somehow limited - eg. search & edit command easily.

Working on it. Or rather "Working on it after I know shell well enough to identify the problems with it."

dude seriously if reinventing for the sake of reinventing there is no point, what's wrong with having a irb terminal and do copy and paste over a skype chat?

Perhaps the point is to have some fun.

Seriously, when did geeks lose their grasp on the concept of hack value?

What is with the semicolons at the end of each example shell command? I'm only familiar with bash. Is this a new shell's syntax?

It's additional evidence (in addition to dhconnelly above) that the author actually has no idea how to use the shell properly.

"I've designed a new car ... this one, you can POINT in the direction you want to go! No more stopping, getting out, and manually turning the front wheels every time you want to turn!"

That actually is a nice idea indeed :).

Um, no mention of shell functions? I recommend to the author that he spend a full day carefully studying the bash man page.

"That can be used to store e.g. a current working directory."

Like $CWD ?

Right, only Yoke isn't the shell, so it doesn't have $CWD. Which is probably why the author wanted to call specific attention to the fact that it can still supply $CWD-like functionality.

So it can not interact with shell variables? How is that supposed to boost my shell-fu?

Yep, soon I'll update Yoke with that.

this is pretty cool. it's very close in philosophy to bret victor's last demo at cusec https://vimeo.com/36579366

Thanks, will definitely see the video.

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