Launch HN: Fig (YC S20) – Autocomplete for the Terminal

Post by lasfter » Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:05 PM UTC

yoz-y wrote: post #361

lasfter wrote: post #287

I detest that it has become normalized to grant tech companies access to personal data with only limp promises that it won't be misused. If you give Fig permissions to look at what you are typing into the terminal, you should be prepared for them to look at what you are typing into the terminal and use it how it best serves them . They're asking for more permissions than that of course. Imagine giving FedEx a copy of…

Wait. Does this mean that you are against the use of any tech product made by a company? From the description and the author comment it looks like they are not transmitting the keystrokes to their server (and it does not seem to have any need for it anyways). How is this different from using say, a compiler made by a company (they have access to all your code), or an image editor (they have access to all your photos)…

Post by hemmert » Wed, May 26, 2021, 9:56 PM UTC

Post by sdevonoes » Thu, May 27, 2021, 8:14 AM UTC

d--b wrote: post #30

sdevonoes wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious question: why didn't you just give a fake or temporary email address? That's what I do all the time.

They go as far as asking to validate the email with a code... That plus the fact that they do send data to their servers for some reason...

Post by stackbeard » Fri, May 28, 2021, 12:30 PM UTC

nathancahill wrote: post #9

Very smooth, downloaded it and played around a bit. My first thought is why not use built-in shell autocompletion functions instead of redefining them in JS? Zsh completions are super powerful: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions/blob/master/zsh... Typing `git a ` yields this in my terminal: ~ git add add -- add file contents to index am -- apply patches from a mailbox apply -- apply patch to files and/or to…

  # tab completion
  setopt hash_list_all
  # https://stackoverflow.com/a/14900496/8514646
  bindkey '^i' expand-or-complete-prefix
  # by category
  # https://old.reddit.com/r/zsh/comments/6l797o/organizing_co mpletions_by_category/
  # https://github.com/sorinionescu/prezto/blob/master/modules/completion/init.zsh#L60
  zstyle ':completion:*:*:*:*:*' menu select
  zstyle ':completion:*:matches' group 'yes'
  zstyle ':completion:*:options' description 'yes'
  zstyle ':completion:*:options' auto-description '%d'
  zstyle ':completion:*:corrections' format ' %F{green}-- %d (errors: %e) --%f'
  zstyle ':completion:*:descriptions' format ' %F{yellow}-- %d --%f'
  zstyle ':completion:*:messages' format ' %F{purple} -- %d -- %f'
  zstyle ':completion:*:warnings' format ' %F{red}-- no matches found --%f'
  zstyle ':completion:*:default' list-prompt '%S%M matches%s'
  zstyle ':completion:*' format ' %F{yellow}-- %d --%f'
  zstyle ':completion:*' group-name ''
  zstyle ':completion:*' verbose yes
`

Post by coltons » Thu, Jun 03, 2021, 7:03 PM UTC

brendanfalk wrote: post #175

coltons wrote: post #158

Looks really cool, but I would always use zsh-auto-complete. Maybe your market is for people that prefer GUI's over terminal, but like terminal power, or the newer generation of coders who went to code school and are not the older school terminal in the weeds people (sorry for a generalization)

> Looks really cool, but I would always use zsh-auto-complete. Thanks for this feedback. Would love to dig in a little more here. What is it about Fig that turns you off? Is it the idea of having a GUI in the terminal?