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“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
FWIW I have a list of similar ideas done in essentially every language, including every popular Lisp variant: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/ExternalResources#inter...
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
#32This sounds really interesting to me, I have a bunch of items I can think of where this might be useful to automate (for example, my wife and I have different bank accounts, but share a credit card for points reasons... givng my wife a statement is really hard since they "upgraded" their site, and removed the transactions export feature). But I'm not sure where to start automating this. It would be great to have some…
Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users
#33Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users
#34I 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…
https://github.com/40ants/cl-bitbar
It is a library to write plugins for https://getbitbar.com
Re: Powerlisp: Common Lisp tool for automating tasks for Unix power-users
#35In general I have dreamed for ages of one language could enough to do everything I want to do with a computer. And I am pretty imaginative as to what is in that set.