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?
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
#12I 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?
This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or dmenu frontend. Once you bind it a key shortcut, rofi/dmenu will come up asking you what to do.
Right now I can directly access my favorite websites, open my favorite programs, do web search (and also switch web engine), all without touching the browser directly. The idea is to group a lot of things in a lightweight script, and have a keyboard-only interaction with no extra extensions or programs.
I agree that the README is a little poor right now, and screenshots/gifs would also help on this regard. I'll start working on it pretty soon.
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#13Like 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.
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#14Which operating systems are supported? Don't see that in the Readme.
I plan to migrate this to a more flexible Roswell script in a near future.
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#15NB: I read SICP cover to cover twenty years ago, did many private projects with DrScheme (Racket) and was influenced by it's paradigms early on. I do appreciate Lispy topics, but why front page of HN?
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#16I know that Lisp is very popular here on HN (Paul Graham!), but my gut feeling tells me that many Lisp related posts with hardly any upvotes / comments get pushed to the front page of HN. I wish there was a HN filter to hide certain keywords. NB: I read SICP cover to cover twenty years ago, did many private projects with DrScheme (Racket) and was influenced by it's paradigms early on. I do appreciate Lispy topics, bu…
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#17But I'm not sure where to start automating this. It would be great to have some examples.
Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users
#18I know that Lisp is very popular here on HN (Paul Graham!), but my gut feeling tells me that many Lisp related posts with hardly any upvotes / comments get pushed to the front page of HN. I wish there was a HN filter to hide certain keywords. NB: I read SICP cover to cover twenty years ago, did many private projects with DrScheme (Racket) and was influenced by it's paradigms early on. I do appreciate Lispy topics, bu…
You can hide individual posts, which I find useful for a lot of non-technical content that's less interesting to me. It's manual, but it gets them off the home page and you can see content from the 2nd/3rd pages of material that may be of more interest to you.
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#20I 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?
Hello, I'm the author. I just found out someone put this in HN again, I hope I can explain. This is basically a way to create menus and submenus for recurrent utilities. You can use a rofi or dmenu frontend. Once you bind it a key shortcut, rofi/dmenu will come up asking you what to do. Right now I can directly access my favorite websites, open my favorite programs, do web search (and also switch web engine), all wit…