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Oh yeah, that looks super similar. I remember the similarity score being tricky to get useful signal out of, for the underlying model I had used back then. Similar and dissimilar i…

Agree! For fun, I had put together a GitHub bot for this purpose a while ago. It indexes all existing issues in a repo, creates embeddings and stores them in a vector DB. When a ne…

Not the OP, but you raise good points. Performance might also be a concern, thinking of languages like Python and its ast package (not sure that’s accessible without going through …

These sorts of cases are why I wrote srgn [0]. It's based on tree-sitter too. Calling it as cat file.py | srgn --py def --py identifiers 'database' 'db' will replace all mentions o…

Regarding your third point, I put together a tool capable of that to some degree. It allows you to grep inside source code, but limit the search to e.g. “only docstrings inside cla…

The tool you are describing is what I am trying to build at https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn . The idea is a compromise between regex (think ripgrep) and grammar awareness (throug…

srgn is a niche source code (or just text) manipulation tool. It's written in Rust, with performance in mind. I used it to learn the language a while back, in order to work towards…

> But this is a custom setup that's not portable? Caught me. > And how is it less tedious to have to select previously typed text all the time? This is tedious, but I have that aut…

It's currently whitelist-based [0]. The downside is larger (code) size. The upside is simplicity. I imagine a blacklist could also work well, at smaller size but with more preproce…

https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn It grew out of a niche, almost historical need: using a QWERTY keyboard, but needing access to German Umlauts (ä, ö, ü, as well as ß). Switching k…

> diff formatting Thank you for the feedback! That sounds good, I'll add that.

Exactly, all the parsing is done by tree-sitter. The Rust bindings to the tree-sitter C lib are a "first-class consumer".

Wow! What a coincidence. Just the other day I finished "v1" of a similar tool: https://github.com/alexpovel/srgn , calling it a combination of tr/sed, ripgrep and tree-sitter. It's…

ancv: https://github.com/alexpovel/ancv/ Idea: renders your resume as pretty terminal output. Others can view it in their own terminals: curl -L ancv.io/heyho Pipe to a pager for b…

> Neat! I'm using QWERTY International layouts myself, where you can type umlauts and ß with special keys for modifiers (e.g. alt+u on Mac for ¨), but I still think this is a cool …

A couple years ago, I switched from German QWERTZ to a UK QWERTY keyboard (wouldn't have minded US QWERTY but the differently shaped return key seemed too foreign). I am not lookin…

> basically every scientific paper I read is set using pdftex That is only because their templates are years behind the curve and they are slow to update. It is not an argument for…

LuaLaTeX allocates memory as-needed, see section 3.4.1 in the manual [0] (and comments/answers in this thread [1]). Base TeX has an arbitrary, by modern standards low memory limit,…

This looks amazing and like everything I always wanted. Sadly, I think basing off XeTeX and not LuaTeX is a mistake. Certainly renders it unusable for me. Having Lua integration is…