Occasionally this outputs F'DK'M instead of GAELAN for me. Maybe an issue with some of the fonts?
Some fonts are broken I think.
Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
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Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
#12Occasionally this outputs F'DK'M instead of GAELAN for me. Maybe an issue with some of the fonts?
Looks like an off by one error. I'm seeing this error as well for some of the fonts.
Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
#13I love this sort of thing. Yes, as remarked by probably everyone here over the age of 40, we have had loads of terminal shiny stuff for decades. However, here we see the tradition continue at least one or two human generations later and in a modern programming language.
It's funny that despite the fact that GUIs with mice, menus and things have been around for a bloody long time: you can't beat a terminal prompt for many tasks. Mind you my terminals these days looks rather better than the twinax connected beasts of yesteryear that I looked after. I don't remember transparency options on those.
Have a look at https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt for more eye-candy for your prompt - it does look rather good and I've been using it on one machine for at least a year with no snags. However that project may be needing an active developer judging by the last commit and Issues.
Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
#14I love this sort of thing. Yes, as remarked by probably everyone here over the age of 40, we have had loads of terminal shiny stuff for decades. However, here we see the tradition continue at least one or two human generations later and in a modern programming language. It's funny that despite the fact that GUIs with mice, menus and things have been around for a bloody long time: you can't beat a terminal prompt for…
I'd recommend spaceship prompt if you want an actively maintained prompt with similar features.
Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
#15Would like ability to pipe cow-say into it (or any random set of strings) on which it will then just add the colour effect.
Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
#16This pleasantly reminds me of faders for chat programs like AIM :)
Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
#17I love this sort of thing. Yes, as remarked by probably everyone here over the age of 40, we have had loads of terminal shiny stuff for decades. However, here we see the tradition continue at least one or two human generations later and in a modern programming language. It's funny that despite the fact that GUIs with mice, menus and things have been around for a bloody long time: you can't beat a terminal prompt for…
I'd recommend spaceship prompt if you want an actively maintained prompt with similar features. https://github.com/denysdovhan/spaceship-prompt
Wow, it is interesting how this project ties together the devops environment with the user interface. I feel this is higly domain dependent: As soon as I install this on my cluster system where http://modules.sourceforge.net/ is commonly used, it doesn't help me any more. Same with my home brewn environment based build system for my C++ project. Obviously, the spaceship-prompt needs support to be built for such environments.
This does not reduce the enormous efforts of the author to include all the different ecosystems, thought.
Re: Show HN: A little eye-candy for the terminal (in Go)
#18quite funny. check lolcat if you are intrested: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
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#20Would like ability to pipe cow-say into it (or any random set of strings) on which it will then just add the colour effect.
You can pipe the cow-say to this program: https://github.com/arsham/rainbow
Is that what you're after?