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Elvish author here, seems like I missed the annual posting of Elvish to HN this time :)

> Later, it will be a rejection of the insurance claim for a kid's life-saving surgery. According to this article, it's been happening for a while now: https://www.statnews.com/202…

Such old urban places would just be car-free in the Netherlands (sometimes with limited access for delivery and emergency vehicles), a trend fortunately becoming popular in other E…

I would love to see the diff between the hand-rolled recursive-descent parser and the ANTLR syntax! I certainly feel the amount of boilerplate in my hand-rolled recursive-descent p…

Yeah, ultimately there's an element of personal taste at play. The authoritative tone of "how to write ..." is meant in jest, but obviously by doing that I risk being misunderstood…

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FWIW, I've just added this instruction to https://elv.sh/get/default-shell.html#vim-/-neovim

Did you set your login shell to Elvish? Vim unfortunately relies on your shell being a POSIX shell, but you can fix that with "set shell=/bin/sh" in your rc file.

Thanks, I appreciate the comment the appreciation :)

Thanks! Glad that the talk is working as a marketing pitch for Elvish :)

Thanks! Murex talk when??? :)

Thanks for your question and glad that you enjoyed it!

Right, I may have forgot to mention that lexerless parsers are somewhat unusual. I didn't have much time in the talk to go into the reason, so here it is: - You'll need a more comp…

I gave a talk about the design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrl9foNXdgM As the sibling comment mentioned, you can find documentation on Elvish itself on the website https://elv…

I don't have a version with captions, sorry. You can find the slidedeck at https://github.com/elves/elvish/blob/master/website/slides/2... The remaining 8% mostly falls into the fo…

Hey, it's my talk, AMA :) If you're interested in Elvish, you may also be interested in the talk on its design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrl9foNXdgM

Look for “POSIX” on https://justine.lol/cosmo3/

That seems to be a bad translation, the original text means something like “sharpen something fully and it won’t last so long” (presumably due to it being more brittle). The text (…

Oh, I definitely didn't read your entire comment as negative, just the way you used "elvishism". Elvish definitely has its quirks! But I hope you'll find it a compelling package ov…

> In case there are no jpg files in the working directory, Bash will put the pattern itself (*.jpg) into the $x variable. You need to explicitly check that the file in the variable…

> Elvish visibly leans into this to try to have a consistent syntax. Sometimes the similarities go deeper, too; IIRC, its number types are inspired by Scheme, for example. Yes! Sim…

Ha it's just a typo.

It wasn't directly borrowed from any other language ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40317577 ) but there's definitely something nice about the syntax that causes multiple la…

Thank you for the compliment!