Live data from Hacker News

Facebook PathPicker

facebook.github.io

161–168 of 168 posts

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#161
Looks like it has issues running with nosetests. It would be awesome, if I could do nosetests runtests.py | fpp and if any test fails, i could select it and it would open it up in my editor.

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should use whatever works for you but this strikes me as very bizarre I have to admit. I started out with a mouse as well and I can see this being something I would have attempted if I hadn't just put my head down and forced myself to get used to keeping my hands on the keyboard.

As I said, it would be nice to be able to do everything with Powershell (or even Cygwin), but the every module isn't available for every version of Powershell, and the last 2 versions of Powershell don't work with some older (but still supported) versions of Windows. Want to control you audio from Powershell? There's a cmdlet[1] for that. But it only works on Powershell 4.0 and higher. And PS 4.0 is only available on…

You're not able to upgrade your gaming PC?

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#163
post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As I said, it would be nice to be able to do everything with Powershell (or even Cygwin), but the every module isn't available for every version of Powershell, and the last 2 versions of Powershell don't work with some older (but still supported) versions of Windows. Want to control you audio from Powershell? There's a cmdlet[1] for that. But it only works on Powershell 4.0 and higher. And PS 4.0 is only available on…

You're not able to upgrade your gaming PC?

Because of my infinite foresight in installing the Enterprise version, my upgrade path requires a full reinstall.

Everything works fine so it's not a very high priority - I'd rather be Minecrafting - either playing the game or adding to the server.

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#164
This tool is awesome. It would be better if you add a search feature in the selector UI. I know that we could do that in the command itself but it would if helpful in case we forgot previously or need further filtering

Also, it is failing to select the entire file if there are spaces in it

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I like using a mouse. I get that some people can work faster with all-keyboard controls. I use both. I also like GUIs for certain things. The only thing I don't like GUIs for is when there is some repetitive thing that I have to do 50 times a day and would require 3 or 4 clicks or menu selections - for those I'd always rather have a single command. Sometimes I make those into shell…

Might already be familiar with it, but if you aren't, you should check out sikuli script [1] for when you have a repetitive GUI task you have to perform that can't be directly scripted. I've used it to script some really complex workflows through GUI's It's also just weird and interesting to program something to move through a GUI as fast as is possible 1: http://www.sikuli.org/

That's great, we have an app that can't be tested with Selenium, Sikuli looks promising.

Re: Facebook PathPicker

#168
post #62

Going though this thread, so far we have fpp, selecta, peco, percol, numberwang, fzf... Wewh! They are all, how could we call it, command line selector tools? What I'd love to read is a nice comparative review of these tools. Although I kind of enjoy the process of going though each one and studying how the features fit my own workflow.

Like /u/Sbn, I'd like to hear about the experiences you've gathered with these tools so far. I'm in the process of choosing one of these tools and I cannot find a good overview of all their features, pros and cons.
Post reply on HN