A novel, unprecedented approach to command line - n-commodore

A novel, unprecedented approach to command line - n-commodore

[Sebastian Gniazdowski]

Hi,
by accident, I might have discovered a novel approach to command line
- a merge of Midnight Commander panels with pure shell. Basically,
n-commodore, the project that does this, panelizes each command that
you enter and allows multi-keyword grepping. Up to this point, it's
like fzf. However, by use of db/gdbm module, n-commodore's also:
- allows a persistent save of each of the screens (even of the help
screen, e.g.),
- the screens are saved and indexed, for later retrieval via
Ctrl-Shift-Left/RIight,
- they save not only the panel, but also: current PWD, active line in
the panel, search query/command line buffer and restores them on
fetch.

n-commodore is a Zsh script implemented on top of Zui library.
Persistence is done via db/gdbm module. You can clone the repo and
simply run bin/n-c or use a plugin manager (alias `nc` will be then
set up). The login shell can be Bash or any other, if zsh will be
installed.

Asciicast: https://asciinema.org/a/577630
Homepage: https://github.com/psprint/n-commodore

Re: A novel, unprecedented approach to command line - n-commodore

[Sebastian Gniazdowski]

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Basically it's about 3 factors: panelize everything, grep everything and
save everything.

Panelization is known from Midnight Commander - it means to capture command
output into a list that can be browsed. Grepping is known from fzf. Screen
saving is a new paradigm

You basically have new screen (a greppable panel) for each new command,
which is saved to the disk (GDBM), and which can be fetched/navigated to,
having also PWD dir and position in panel restored.

pt., 14 kwi 2023, 20:01 użytkownik Sebastian Gniazdowski <
sgniazdowski@gmail.com> napisał:

> Hi,
> by accident, I might have discovered a novel approach to command line
> - a merge of Midnight Commander panels with pure shell. Basically,
> n-commodore, the project that does this, panelizes each command that
> you enter and allows multi-keyword grepping. Up to this point, it's
> like fzf. However, by use of db/gdbm module, n-commodore's also:
> - allows a persistent save of each of the screens (even of the help
> screen, e.g.),
> - the screens are saved and indexed, for later retrieval via
> Ctrl-Shift-Left/RIight,
> - they save not only the panel, but also: current PWD, active line in
> the panel, search query/command line buffer and restores them on
> fetch.
>
> n-commodore is a Zsh script implemented on top of Zui library.
> Persistence is done via db/gdbm module. You can clone the repo and
> simply run bin/n-c or use a plugin manager (alias `nc` will be then
> set up). The login shell can be Bash or any other, if zsh will be
> installed.
>
> Asciicast: https://asciinema.org/a/577630
> Homepage: https://github.com/psprint/n-commodore
>

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