calling it a "gui tool" is sort of missing the point -- this should be a basic feature of every IDE.
it lets you write the input for each command in your pipeline, in it's own editor.
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in reply to @NireBryce's post:
making the flags into checkmarks is so good i hate having to map random letters to arbitrary functions in my head
yeah! right now my primary cope is https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab + zsh completions or https://github.com/microsoft/inshellisense for bash
(inshellisense works for zsh too, but it's integration with the completion menu isn't clear to me so I have only switched to it for bash so far)
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oh neat! I wonder how inshellisense compares to fish shell. I like that fish takes little manpage summaries
inshellisense sounds super handy next time I need to do bash stuff :)
zsh does similar with some of the plugins but also has a mechanism for hand-rolled completion descriptions, but it also does menu-completion on flags etc which is a big reason why I haven't moved away
oo nice! that sounds like a handy plugin. I do like that bash scripts Just Work in zsh. I like fish's syntax better these days for shell scripty stuff, but I can't really say it's worth the effort to learn for that alone probably. (i'm curious about xonsh for shell scripting stuff; seems nice to have all the python ecosystem plus some shell scripting nicities)
imo xonsh is better as a script runner or like, going in to viz something, than as a shell, at least so far. the plugin ecosystem isn't there yet and the core features aren't really either -- same way I feel about nushell, I use it to run commands where I want tabular output, but it's not my workbench, so to speak
edit: though it seems they're getting more traction on that part https://github.com/xonsh/awesome-xontribs
oh word? thanks for letting me know, saves me the hassle of bothering to try it out! noted regarding better as a script runner than a shell
I'm just spoiled by fish and zsh. if you're someone who uses distro default bash it's a big improvement.
but the amount of people working in it's ecosystem is small right now
a good way to describe it is it's sort of like ipython as a shell, so you can write out little scripts in the command line in ways that are a little easier to reason with
so it's... I've used it like a scripting repl but I don't use it as a shell