Why people worry so much to create "short, easy to type" (coff coff cryptic) command names, nomenclature is so important in our profession and almost everybody sucks at it, give meaningful names to things even if they are 30+ chars long, is it really that though to press 3 or 4 keys along with maybe 3 or 4 tabs?
Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
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Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to do this, but it doesn't work with things like "watch".
I actually just learned from a different HN thread yesterday [1] that aliases do get expanded if you add this to your shell's rc file: alias watch='watch ' Specifically, if an alias ends with a space, it will cause the subsequent arg to be expanded as well. For example, try running: alias beep=echo watch beep hello # This will fail alias watch='watch ' watch beep hello # Now it works! [1]: https://news.ycombinator.co…
Brilliant feature, but this is the sort of thing that reinforces the idea that CLIs have awful discoverability compared to GUIs.
Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plan 9 does that, I'm not sure why it never made it into Unix because I always loved it. Your networking-related commands were in `/bin/ip` and you'd run e.g. `ip/ping 1.1.1.1`. If you created the dir `$home/bin/rc/my` and put scripts in it, they would have been runnable as `my/hello` etc like in your example.
Plan 9 also more or less does away with the concept of $PATH in the first place; just union-mount (with `bind`) whatever you want onto `/bin` and call it a day. Yet another thing that would've been great for Unix-likes to pull in (I think some Linuxen can technically do it, but with some limitations).
All linuxen should be able to do that with overlayfs, I think.
Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
#114Cool. I’m gonna start them with `å` just to be a little different.
That’s be fun when you Exchange scripts with non-danes ;-))
Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
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I mostly read books. I don't want to pick on the author, but since you asked I will be more specific: this idea would fit in a tweet.* It's a good idea, but the long build up reminds me of recipe sites. * I just use "tweet" as a unit of measure, like "the size of two elephants". I do not advocate the use of twitter.
twitter was still fairly new when this was published and only allowed 140 chars which definitely isn't enough.
As I said I wasn’t advocating the use of twitter, merely using it as a unit of measure.
Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
#116Why people worry so much to create "short, easy to type" (coff coff cryptic) command names, nomenclature is so important in our profession and almost everybody sucks at it, give meaningful names to things even if they are 30+ chars long, is it really that though to press 3 or 4 keys along with maybe 3 or 4 tabs?
I was going to post the same thing. With tab completion long names can be typed quickly anyway. Also, the keyboard is the most fundamental input device for developers... learn how to use it well. It amazes me how many people who are professional developers use copy/paste so much because they can't type well. It slows them down to a crawl.
I don't particularly want to have to type 30-character names all the time without tab completion, but I'm not going to worry about an eight character command vs. a four character one.
Obviously this doesn't apply if you are dyslexic or disabled in some way or something.
Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
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Do you know any of the history of why your link to `.../Shopify/...` redirects to `.../nix-community/...`? Is the latter an open-source contribution by Shopify?
I think it was originally developed and maintained by Shopify, but was then handed off to the nix community
Thanks!
Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
#118Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Again, to reiterate, the original comment was not a statement that this should not have been reposted. I am not sure how I could make that clearer? I have read the site guidelines. Many of them are subjective and inconsistent with unknown applicability. If you, as the administrator, are unable to accept that evaluation, then please just delete this account and all associated posts.
"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." That's what dang was referring to, I believe, not some hypothetical implication.
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Re: Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
#120To mitigate issues you could just append ~/bin/ to $PATH (opposed to prepending).
Then system commands have priority over your user home commands, right?