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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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“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...

That’s really cool! I got more than a few new ideas for SHCL by browsing through that list. Thanks for sharing!

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

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This 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…

In that case, you might want to check the wiki. There are still some examples missing, but they'll give you a general idea.

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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?

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…

Hm, I have similar project, but for OSX users:

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

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It isn't lisp but I have used xonsh which is a python shell. It has a lot of nice uses and it is much easier to right python that can interact with normal shell commands well including capturing their outputs than is to write actual bash or whatever scripts. And being able to create these things in a solid repl is very nice.

In 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.

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