Here's my 2c. It's unlikely that many users, here or elsewhere, would be comfortable downloading and executing this Hacksh binary from your Dropbox, regardless of its benefits.
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Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#22Seems like resh (https://github.com/curusarn/resh) plus a directory tab and unlike resh it isn't free. I like the directory history, but that isn't a $40/yr value add over resh for me.
There are so many free players in that space (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31402095), $40/yr is probably a hard sell.
Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#23Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#24Seems like resh ( https://github.com/curusarn/resh ) plus a directory tab and unlike resh it isn't free. I like the directory history, but that isn't a $40/yr value add over resh for me. There are so many free players in that space (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31402095 ), $40/yr is probably a hard sell.
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Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#25Seems like resh ( https://github.com/curusarn/resh ) plus a directory tab and unlike resh it isn't free. I like the directory history, but that isn't a $40/yr value add over resh for me. There are so many free players in that space (e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31402095 ), $40/yr is probably a hard sell.
Thanks, I wasn't aware of resh. (They don't call it "re.sh"?)
If I'm reading the resh page correctly, they search the history of the commands you've run, but don't store or allow searching of the command output, or do any of the other historical features hucksh offers.
Also, it appears that all such searching happens server-side; in hucksh it's all client-side. If you have a fast connection, that admittedly wouldn't matter much; where I live, I'm on cellular or satellite and sometimes the latency suuuucks.
Would you care to speculate on what price-point would work for you? Everywhere else I've posted (mostly Reddit) I've offered a discount code. I saw zero guidance about that in the "Show HN" rules or guidelines, and I didn't want to be banned, so I didn't mention it. But happy to offer one here if it's okay to offer.
Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#26Intriguing idea! I love the idea of having a database of the commands you’ve run and their output. I use tmux religiously, but it’s sometimes frustrating using a crappy interface to spelunk my terminal history and manually look for the various commands I’ve run amidst voluminous output. And of course it’ll lose that history when it runs out of buffer. Question: You refer to this as a shell, but it seems more like a t…
> I love the idea of having a database of the commands you’ve run and their output.
Once upon a time, I rigged... I can't recall if I did it in tmux or the shell profile, but I made my system spawn every new shell under script(1) by default (with some logic to check that you weren't already nested to avoid infinite loops, and some way to start a shell that didn't use it just in case), which resulted in a nice directory with text files listing every terminal session i had. I think it ended up not being all that useful and there was either real or perceived performance impact so I didn't bother implementing it again when I switched machines, but the idea did seem neat.
Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#27Clickable links: https://huckridge.notion.site/Hucksh-overview-2fdcaf7d639145... https://huckridge.notion.site/Hucksh-online-download-purchas...
Thanks, that's weird. The ones in the post are clickable on my end.
Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#28I couldn't immediately find the repo for this, and get the impression its not open source.
Considering it seems to be constituted significantly of open source libraries and tools (which you commendably are up front about), I would want to see a lot more justification for why this is closed (e.g. those third party elements are only a tiny fraction of the product), and what significant value is being added. Or if I'm wrong, a clearer link to the repo.
Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#29I couldn't immediately find the repo for this, and get the impression its not open source. Considering it seems to be constituted significantly of open source libraries and tools (which you commendably are up front about), I would want to see a lot more justification for why this is closed (e.g. those third party elements are only a tiny fraction of the product), and what significant value is being added. Or if I'm w…
Re: Show HN: Hucksh – A shell with a very good memory
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah it seems like this guy explicitly doesn't understand the licenses but will go tell people things they cannot do under the licenses anyway. Weird.
anon25783 seems to be even using BSD for their own projects. Even weirder. Maybe the constant GPL bashing going on is making people misunderstand the crucial difference between "permissive" and free software licenses?
It must be, because I misunderstood that difference myself. I've edited my original comment to reflect this.