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Some comments on the TC write up¹ a few days ago². ¹ https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/oh-gitness-harness-launche... ² https://news.ycombinator.com/item…

I'm a big fan of moonscript, but occasionally wish it was still being improved and worked on. Yuescript¹ looks like it fixes most of my bugbears with moonscript, and is for the most part a fas…

A link to that discussion for those of us who missed it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385716

A much less thorough round-up of 29.1 was discussed here a little while ago¹, with many of great comments². ¹ https://emacsredux.com/blog/2023/07/30/emacs-29-1-rele…

Full agreement, and with the addition of xpk¹/xfd² as natural extensions to that extensibility too. I see things like xfd supporting xz¹, and I'm simultaneously amazed that it exists and h…

mupdf is the mupdf of epub; it supports epub and other formats beyond pdf¹. When I've had really large files I've used mupdf to read them a few times, as it seems to be far better at handli…

Hmm, that is odd about fbreader. I have the Debian package¹ installed that is Open Source², but looks like recent versions are no longer Open Source. Hadn't noticed that before. Might also argu…

I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23660910 may be a trap street^wlink to see who is watching :)

Bash has a range of modifiers for history expansion. You can "cd !$:t" to execute "cd <final argument of last command, basename only>" for your git example. zsh, somewhat p…

That is the difference between the up-line-or-history and up-line-or-search functions that I linked above. The default Up binding is the -history function, whereas the -search function in unbound by …

I'm unsure what specific behaviour you want from zsh and the up key, but it provides more than one up-line-*¹² function out of the box. Also, you can add any behaviour you wish with a custom zle…

That is a recent( -ish ) addition¹, arriving in 3.1. Your interpretation of recent may be a different length to mine, but one Debian release in this instance ;) ¹ https://github.com/f…

I did jury duty at the Crown Court a few years ago, and met a Debian maintainer and MSR researcher over the course of a week. And far more oddly, I met a friend of one of the Dasher developers who sa…

Eterm used to have a support pack with some nice backgrounds for tiling, which sadly appears to be more difficult to find than it would've been a decade ago. I did find a mirror¹, but that is pu…

In the specific instance of a "thanks" message, I'll somewhat regularly send an out of band message to say thanks for helpful replies(or general comments). It doesn't pollute the …

I have to second that, it seemed to be a great tool. I've often wondered why it couldn't get traction¹. I can recall people gushing about it at what may have been the same Python meetup …

[I'm not recommending this, but maybe… No, no. I'm not sure…] It isn't even just the newer shells that have solved this, zsh also has a solution out of the box¹. The extensive globbing…

I perhaps shouldn't have said "bad," as my opinions sadly aren't universal truths ;) However, my reasoning is the same as noted in echelon's reply. There are often far bett…

I lean a fair bit in the opposite direction. If a sort is any more complex than -n or -k<number no flags>, I tend to vipe¹ my sort in my editor. It feels great when you can use narrow-to-region…