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Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by em-bee »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #348
em-bee wrote: post #312

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it doesn't work on the majority of systems i have to work with, which is servers that don't have the necessary tools installed. it's also very susceptible to latency and most applications don't handle slow connections in a usable manner. (they are designed with the expectation that the gui always responds instantly) to get something of a tmux/screen like experience, xpra is available, which is an awesome piece of wor…

Oh, I never said I _enjoyed_ X forwarding, or even use it frequently. My point was just that remote access in a similar way to a shell is possible with a GUI, and could be made even better if X had a means of not having to draw everything but left it up to the toolkit on the other end. But yes, in general, a shell is just much better:)

> could be made even better if X had a means of not having to draw everything but left it up to the toolkit on the other end

that a thousand times!

does wayland work in that direction?

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Post by cliffwarden »

xelxebar wrote: post #327
vanderZwan wrote: post #169

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> git-annex is not a filesystem or Dropbox clone. However, the git-annex assistant is addressing some of the same needs in its own unique ways. (There is also a FUSE filesystem built on top of git-annex, called ShareBox.) So I assume you made it work like Dropbox for you anyway. How did that go?

The "a better Dropbox" comment was quite tongue in cheek. You can think of git-annex as a way of managing files in git without managing the contents, which is exactly what we want for binary blobs like PDFs, word documents, whatever. The syncronization between computers is done essentially how one would do it with git. Personally, I sync to a private VM host so the content is available "in the cloud". At the moment I…

There is git-annex assistant. I ended up going back to manual synchronizing, but it is promising as more of a drop-in replacement for DB.

https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/

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Post by stevewillows »

xte wrote: post #340
stevewillows wrote: post #305

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yeah, I've never been a big emacs user outside of org-mode, so it was silly for me to be using it for one feature. The VS one covers the basics and has treated me well. For more advanced org-mode folks, I don't think the VS org-mode would be enough.

Thanks, just curious because you are the first I here that have used Emacs and decide for something else. For org-mode outside Emacs I do not know VSc but I've used in the past Vim port and agree: outside Emacs org-mode support is simply too limited to be considered...

its generous for me to say I'm an org-mode power user or whatever. My lists are fairly basic and this VSC one covers those basics.

I can't see a lot of people who use emacs for other things switching away.

This is the one I'm using --

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tootone....

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Post by [deleted] »

amelius wrote: post #120
nanna wrote: post #104

- pdfgrep : grep search pdfs - htop : A nicer version of the process viewer top - rename : bulk rename things via a regex/sed-like interface - youtube-dl -x : download the audio of a video - locate : Find something anywhere.

> locate : Find something anywhere. I strongly dislike updatedb, which is always stealing CPU cycles at inconvenient moments, and locate often seems out of date. We should have had instant, database-like indexing in our filesystems ages ago.

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Post by _arvin »

amelius wrote: post #120
nanna wrote: post #104

- pdfgrep : grep search pdfs - htop : A nicer version of the process viewer top - rename : bulk rename things via a regex/sed-like interface - youtube-dl -x : download the audio of a video - locate : Find something anywhere.

> locate : Find something anywhere. I strongly dislike updatedb, which is always stealing CPU cycles at inconvenient moments, and locate often seems out of date. We should have had instant, database-like indexing in our filesystems ages ago.

You can run updatedb more frequently. By default it is run on a daily cron job and has the smarts to not run when on battery. (see /etc/cron.daily/mlocate)

You can also exclude directories in /etc/updatedb.conf that you don't want locate to index. I think in your case a more frequent cron job make sense. If run often enough, it finishes very quickly when running updatedb, which will you give you the instant search you're looking for.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by explainplease »

ComputerGuru wrote: post #326
explainplease wrote: post #324

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Really? Doesn't that go against the stated fish design document and ridiculousfish's intention for fish? I'm more concerned about making fish scripts work well than making fish run bash scripts. (Maybe fish 3.0 will improve that too.) I've tried to use fish for writing somewhat serious scripts several times, and I've always run into frustrating problems that sent me back to bash for scripting. Fish is an excellent in…

You can see the discussions on GitHub but @ridiculousfish authored that series of commits fwiw. However with regards to your other matter, I personally just finished rewriting the job control code to close out a lot of long standing bugs affecting correctness and child process behavior in complicated scripting cases, and other members like @faho have done an amazing job fixing up some of the builtins and scripting-re…

Thanks for the updates. I have contributed to related discussions on GitHub for several years, but I haven't been able to keep up with all the issues.

> fwiw I find the sanity fish brings to process substitution with sane tokenization and automatic escaping of shell substitution output to be a huge boon to productivity over writing in (ba)sh.

I completely agree, this is why I would much prefer to use fish for scripting when feasible. I'm glad to hear that the scripting is being improved.

Re: Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?

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Post by vishaltelangre »

rutierut wrote: post #58

Ngrok - https://ngrok.com So easy and super convienient if you quickly need your local server accessible from somewhere else.

I found https://serveo.net as a good alternative to ngrok since it requires no signup, no installation and provides a custom subdomain for free.
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