Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

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Post by _emacsomancer_ » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 12:05 PM UTC

Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users
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Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

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Post by Communitivity » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 12:35 PM UTC

I like this idea as the foundation of a Lisp-based shell. I'd like to see an plugin API, and package mechanism, similar to MELPA for Emacs. Users could write scripts and publish them as a signed package, then users could install them.

I'd also love to see terminal Emacs as the default shell editor for this shell.

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Post by mtreis86 » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 12:56 PM UTC

Any examples of it in use?

Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

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Post by jdormit » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:01 PM UTC

I read the whole README and I still have no idea what this does. Something about bookmarking websites and searches in some sort of configurable menu?

Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

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Post by 1-6 » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:14 PM UTC

Workflow languages are in vogue this morning, huh?

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Post by unixhero » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:22 PM UTC

Like OSX' automator?

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Post by heinrichhartman » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:54 PM UTC

Which operating systems are supported? Don't see that in the Readme.

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Post by kitd » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 1:58 PM UTC

Communitivity wrote: post #2

I like this idea as the foundation of a Lisp-based shell. I'd like to see an plugin API, and package mechanism, similar to MELPA for Emacs. Users could write scripts and publish them as a signed package, then users could install them. I'd also love to see terminal Emacs as the default shell editor for this shell.

Racket has Rash for this sort of thing

https://docs.racket-lang.org/rash/index.html

Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

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Post by thelopa » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC

Communitivity wrote: post #2

I like this idea as the foundation of a Lisp-based shell. I'd like to see an plugin API, and package mechanism, similar to MELPA for Emacs. Users could write scripts and publish them as a signed package, then users could install them. I'd also love to see terminal Emacs as the default shell editor for this shell.

“Lisp-based shell” is so overdone. The hot new thing is merging Common Lisp and POSIX shell into a single, monstrous language!

https://github.com/bradleyjensen/shcl

Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users

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Post by mrmonkeyman » Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

Like all things Lisp: no one understands the what, how and especially why of it.

This sounds extremely non-useful to me. Opening browser windows? For what? To do what, exactly?

And stop this "hacking" and "highly hackable" baloney.