A while back I wrote a similar tool in go to scratch my own itch and use it every day: https://github.com/robbiev/numberwang
🎉 That’s numberwang! 🎉
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#62Going 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.
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#63Hey guys, great tool. Just want to point out it doesn't play well with ack (a better grep) because ack does not prepend a "./" to the file list returned from "ack -l 'foo'". Any way to make it work with the following:
junk/foo/bar.txt
instead of just
./junk/foo/bar.txt
?
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#64Hey everyone, I'm in the main engineer on this project if anyone has questions. Facebook has a large codebase, so naturally we have a lot of long filenames and paths. It's a pain to type these out by hand, so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse before pasting it into the command line. This is pretty inefficient and I knew there had to be a better way, so a few of us started hacking on a…
Thank you for making the mouse a thing in a keyboard driven world. As someone who grew up with gaming and learned IT as a result I never was able to fully give up on the mouse during my daily workflows. I admire people who can use VIM etc only by keyboard, but my muscle memory just says: mouse. Thanks for establishing something that embraces this.
lol, someone's gonna be disappointed trying fpp for the first time
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#65I don't use an editor that runs in the terminal so I only ever want a tool like this for the command mode. When you use it right it's pretty nice, but the first time I was unceremoniously dumped into vim. (Yes I know about the EDITOR variable)
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
[pierce@plo-pro team15]$ time (find . -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f '%N' | wc -l) 4901 real 0m0.079s user 0m0.043s sys 0m0.060s
@ploxiln -- edited my comment explaining a lot of devs here use network mounts (in which case checking for existence takes a lot longer). I'd love to explore this though, either behind a config setting or eventually as the default behavior! What do you think?
yeah, if the files are not either local or on an NFS mount with sub-millisecond latency (my test took ~ 1 second over NFS to a VM), it's going to take too long. I hadn't thought of that situation
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#67And in case anyone didn't know about something that does the same for URLs on-screen: here's urlview.
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/urlview1.html
:-)
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#68Some people, when confronted with a command line problem, think "I know, I'll use my mouse." Now they have two problems. I'm joking, and this looks neat, but the optimal solution is almost certainly to keep your hands on the keyboard while in the shell.
You're silly.
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#69A while back I wrote a similar tool in go to scratch my own itch and use it every day: https://github.com/robbiev/numberwang
🎉 That’s numberwang! 🎉
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#70Hey everyone, I'm in the main engineer on this project if anyone has questions. Facebook has a large codebase, so naturally we have a lot of long filenames and paths. It's a pain to type these out by hand, so I'd see a lot of (new) engineers select the text with their mouse before pasting it into the command line. This is pretty inefficient and I knew there had to be a better way, so a few of us started hacking on a…
I have been thinking about a more general tool that allows you to select text in different ways from some input, and either copy the selection into your paste ring or as fpp does.
I am still thinking about different selection modes and how the UI would work. Usually I see a need to either copy several full lines, or columns from a table like structure (rectangle selection) or from a regex.
Looks good so far!