Colorize Your CLI
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Colorize Your CLI
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Re: Colorize Your CLI
#2The GitHub link to Generic Colouriser points to an outdated and unofficial fork. The canonical one is at https://github.com/garabik/grc.
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#3I think in this day and age we should be making bigger jumps than wanting color in our CLI.
We should have more than one font, we should have pictures. We're visual creatures, us humans. I think something like Jupyter, with in-line images et al is the future, or should be, at least.
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#4The GitHub link to Generic Colouriser points to an outdated and unofficial fork. The canonical one is at https://github.com/garabik/grc .
Fixed, thanks you for pointing this out!
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#5I think in this day and age we should be making bigger jumps than wanting color in our CLI. We should have more than one font, we should have pictures. We're visual creatures, us humans. I think something like Jupyter, with in-line images et al is the future, or should be, at least.
I agree, but we're limited by terminal emulators.
Not counting images in terminal (which can be done with a protocol few terminal supports), we don't even have Font Ligatures widely available.
https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode#editor-compatibility-list
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#6I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever. It should be super easy to make a CLI with nice colors, good loading icons, etc. without having to deal with all kinds of color codes and cursor movement. When I press "enter" while a script is showing some progress bar, or resize the terminal window, it should handle it nicely like every other application.
I use the command line whenever possible over a GUI application, but sometimes I wish it wasn't still stuck in the 80s. Keep the speed an simplicity (I don't want images or anything), but make it easy to make robust applications with a clean text based UI. I shouldn't still have ghosting in my Vim setup, it's 2020.
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#7I think in this day and age we should be making bigger jumps than wanting color in our CLI. We should have more than one font, we should have pictures. We're visual creatures, us humans. I think something like Jupyter, with in-line images et al is the future, or should be, at least.
I strongly disagree. If we're going to use a TUI, it should embrace what it is. Turning it into a watered down GUI does not work to its strengths nor serve the needs of the users still working with it.
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#8`diff --color=auto` is nice, but `vimdiff` is superior
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#9I feel like we need a complete rewrite of terminal emulators/bash/whatever. It should be super easy to make a CLI with nice colors, good loading icons, etc. without having to deal with all kinds of color codes and cursor movement. When I press "enter" while a script is showing some progress bar, or resize the terminal window, it should handle it nicely like every other application. I use the command line whenever pos…
I kinda like using tooling with 40 years of refinement. Is it perfect? No. Do I need to resize a window with a progress bar? No. Would it be nice? Yeah, I guess. Am I underestimating the benefits? Almost certainly.
But what are the other sharp edges that come with the shiny new thing? Would it be an electron app? Yes, probably. Would it work? Maybe, in a couple years. There would be some major bugs first, and a lot of dead batteries.
I don’t think new devs are specifically worse than old ones. I do think there is immense value in using something that has been actively improved for your (well, at least my) entire lifetime.
There are lessons buried in there we don’t even begin to understand. Starting over means forgetting those lessons too.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence is what I am saying.
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#10Love starship. Fast, easily customizable, and best of all works on Windows as well as macOS/Linux. (Unsure about BSD, but I presume that as well)