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  • I_fucking_hate_them_now

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  • Single quotes don't allow any escaping in shell, you need

     
        
'I don'\''t know what you mean, I'\''ve never encountered any annoyances'

    Or, in Zsh with setopt rcquotes:

     
        
'I don''t know what you mean, I''ve never encountered any annoyances'

  • The BEST Shell You’re Not Using - Fish - YouTube

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  • Nothings bad about it. I don't think it's strictly better or worse. Just

    • I'm used to it
    • The comparison in the video was just disingenuous.

  • The BEST Shell You’re Not Using - Fish - YouTube

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  • I get annoyed by differences with (Ba|Z)sh when I try Fish, but nushell is so much its own thing that it's fun.

  • The BEST Shell You’re Not Using - Fish - YouTube

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  • Scrubbing through the video, this hurts my soul

     bash
        
echo $(echo $STRING | sed 's/World/Bash/')

    For variables bash has PE forms:

     bash
        
echo ${STRING/World/Bash}

    I miss these too much when I try Fish.

  • The BEST Shell You’re Not Using - Fish - YouTube

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  • string split/collect and similar can't work unless its a builtin. The set foo ( ...... | string ... ) pattern couldn't work if string was an external binary.

  • What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?

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  • Zsh is still king in my book. Fish and Bash don't have the language features, and Zsh completion with menu groups is a premier experience. Fish's completion from manpages is very good, but there's also a standard zsh function to complete from --help output.

    If I were to switch shells, it would have to be to nushell.

  • Steam’s June Client Update Brings Proton Default on Linux

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  • Steam has always had a Linux Runtime for that exact reason.

  • It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux

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  • Must fight temptation to buy an overpriced raspberry pi

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  • Yeah, theres a lot of old old laptops which make no sense to run. But there's a growing crop of more recent used devices that are only being sold off because they don't support Windows 11, and the power efficiency story changes there. The OOP mentions "8.1 lappies"; my main laptop has a 15W 8th gen which is only in the last year starting to feel less appropriate for desktop use. (And honestly, a RAM and storage bump will probably get me another couple years.)

    For environmental concerns, youve got to tax new devices with manufacturing costs as well.

    100% agree about VMs though.

  • Modern Programming

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  • Not as cursed as

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print("eovdedn"[n%2::2])

  • Vim is built different

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  • I don't fit into any of those categories.

    Its obtuse, old, and doesn't have a lot of functionality of modern code editors

    Obtuse? Yeah. The keyboard focus means natural discoverability is low. But I immediately preferred modal editing once I learned it.

    Old? Eh, most people use Neovim nowadays and write plugins in lua. Even in OG Vim, Vim9script broke compatibility for a better dev experience.

    Functionality? Out of the box, it is just a text editor. But only VSCode might have a more active plugin ecosystem. ALE has been a thing for ages if it's LSP support you're looking for.

    It's not better, it's not worse, I'm not in any way superior for using it, but I love it for a reason.

  • Which X11 software keeps you from switching to Wayland?

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  • Same camp as wtype, you have to bind something to exec it.

  • Which X11 software keeps you from switching to Wayland?

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  • autokey

    I accomplish the same thing with compose sequences, and by binding a keyboard shortcut in my desktop to call a script with wtype. It's not a cross-compositor solution though, as you'd have to manually setup binds in each of them.

    I don't see much hope for this one-to-one unfortunately.

  • Replace Your Regular Linux Commands With These Better Alternatives

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  • Relevant except below, bolded is the key point.

    -v prints non-printing characters in a visible representation. Making strange characters visible is a genuinely new function, for which no existing program is suitable. (sed -n l, the closest standard possibility, aborts when given very long input lines, which are more likely to occur in files containing non-printing characters.) So isn’t it appropriate to add the -v option to cat to make strange characters visible when a file is printed?

    The answer is "No." Such a modification confuses what cat’s job is  concatenating files  with what it happens to do in a common special case  showing a file on the terminal. A UNIX program should do one thing well, and leave unrelated tasks to other programs. cat’s job is to collect the data in files. Programs that collect data shouldn’t change the data; cat therefore shouldn’t transform its input.

  • Trying to learn a young language, using a tutorial that's more than a year old

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  • I think each of 3.8 through 3.11 were substantial, just in different ways.

  • The many paths of pawn

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  • Forcing stalemate if you're super down in material

  • This command is awkward 'docket exec -t vaultwarden sh' , let's just have docker sh vaultwarden already !

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  • The "$@" doesn't do that you think it does in an alias. It gets expanded on alias creation.

  • Unprepared

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  • I've got optimizer tendencies, but we've also got another member who is 100% "What would my character do in this high stress situation with the knowledge they have" and I've found myself leaning that way during combat more and more.

    I will still scrutinize everything outside of combat though, and I'm thankful for the IRL time pressure to get me out of that.

  • Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs?

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  • Love the Towerfall OST myself, it was such a shock to hear about him.

  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev

    New 2024 POSIX Standards specify features for sh and standard shell utilities

    ieeexplore.ieee.org /document/10555529
  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev

    Release fish 3.7.0 (released January 1, 2024)

    github.com /fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.0
  • Linux @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev

    Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5

    www.raspberrypi.com /news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    Gamma @programming.dev

    Raspberry Pi - Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5

    www.raspberrypi.com /news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/
  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev

    After a multi-year hiatus, an org transfer with new admins and maintainers, jq 1.7 has been released!

    github.com /jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7
  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev

    How do you shell expand your variables and why?

  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev

    What are the most inscrutable lines of $SHELL you've ever written?

  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev

    jq-shell: Functions for bringing json structures useful to shell

    github.com /xPMo/jq-shell
  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev
    ysh

    (2/3) Sketches of YSH Features

    www.oilshell.org /blog/2023/06/ysh-sketches.html
  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
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    ysh

    (1/3) Reviewing YSH

    www.oilshell.org /blog/2023/06/ysh-review.html
  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev
    zsh

    Builtin Option Parsing in Zsh

    xpmo.gitlab.io /post/using-zparseopts/
  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
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    Featured

    Tracing is your friend!

  • Shell Scripting @programming.dev
    Gamma @programming.dev

    Here's a sed tutorial I wrote a few years ago

    xpmo.gitlab.io /post/intermediate-sed-usage/