NireBryce

reality is the battlefield

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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮

I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.

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I live on the northeast coast of the US.

'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.

conceptual midwife.

https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut

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I want basically an ncurses window where I can press space on all of the flags I need instead of opening a second window or hitting ctl Z or tabbing back and forth or writing it down.

I know people will talk about this causing "deskilling" but let's face it: I'm not learning things particularly well the normal way and I learn through use, and I think that's true of a lot of people.

I've got a tiny working-memory and, well, this is a common enough pain point that I think about it at least weekly

if i had the spare cycles, the way I'd do it is using something like https://linux.die.net/man/1/fish_update_completions that's already parsing man pages and splitting out the flags, and then pipe it into an ncurses/rich-textualize/etc frontend that tabularizes the results from the fish_man_completions

(bash and zsh completions using that)


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in reply to @NireBryce's post:

god yeah. in-terminal man pages are often like. kinda useless to me for this reason. it's awkward to be able to parse all the information, pick out what you need, and then write it into the same terminal. i usually just end up looking in a browser next to my terminal. this specific thing is why i really appreciate fish's tab completion and command suggestions.

honestly, a thing I had been working on in the past, was a replacement for "the classic Linux interactive shell" that is literally Scratch-like, including a little drag-and-drop window of arguments with builtin documentation. Just, you know, minus the Fisher Price skin. A command compositor, is all

yeah. tbh i'd be fine if zsh shell completions were a little more robust and there was a plugin for an ephemeral documentation subpane I could summon, but somehow people really don't like the idea of docs viewers if you aren't using a multiplexer (which I can't use, because they eat a lot of copy and paste across SSH...)