Re: [dev] s - suckless shell

2016-08-13 Thread rain1
On 2016-08-13 07:31, Ben Woolley wrote: On Aug 12, 2016, at 2:41 PM, ra...@openmailbox.org wrote: Hello! GNU Bash is 138227 lines of code. I wrote a simpler shell* in 800 lines: https://notabug.org/rain1/s/ *It is not a true POSIX shell. You can't run existing scripts with it. It's technica

Re: [dev] s - suckless shell

2016-08-13 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hi, I'm not quite sure about this specific design, but I do think there is still work to be done in shell design. We've not quite got there yet, I think. On 12 August 2016 at 22:41, wrote: > Tokenization [tokenizer.c]: Instead of the strange and complex way that > normal shells work (where "$X"

Re: [dev] s - suckless shell

2016-08-13 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 13 August 2016 at 12:31, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > IO redirection being done by separate programs, though, seems like a > wrong decision. Streaming the data through a separate process is > considerably less efficient than just setting a file descriptor to an > open file, and not always equival

Re: [dev] [sxiv] Discussion

2016-08-13 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 1:24 PM, S. R. Gal wrote: >> In fact, like you, I have also integrated `sxiv` into my "photography" >> workflow, for both selecting potential images, and "analysing" them >> with a few tools I've wrote myself. > > Would you mind sharing them? I would share them, but unfor

[dev] How about software for photography enthusiasts?

2016-08-13 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
Given the latest thread about `sxiv`, I wanted to open up the discussion about "suckless" software for photography enthusiasts. Are there many photographers on this list? Have you found some useful and "less-sucking" tools to help you in your hobby? Anything from image ingestion (i.e. copying),

Re: [dev] [sxiv] Discussion

2016-08-13 Thread Cág
hah...@gmail.com wrote: Haven't tried with compton, but i use: https://github.com/ttzhou/setroot This one works fine, thank you. Cág

Re: [dev] s - suckless shell

2016-08-13 Thread rain1
On 2016-08-13 12:31, Connor Lane Smith wrote: Is there no support for 'splatting' a string into several strings? rc has a coherent approach to this, in that each variable is not a string but a list of strings. 'Splat' should be supported, but only when done explicitly. Yeah I believe rc is the

Re: [dev] s - suckless shell

2016-08-13 Thread Ben Woolley
> On Aug 13, 2016, at 4:31 AM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > > IO redirection being done by separate programs, though, seems like a > wrong decision. Streaming the data through a separate process is > considerably less efficient than just setting a file descriptor to an > open file, and not always

Re: [dev] s - suckless shell

2016-08-13 Thread Ben Woolley
> On Aug 13, 2016, at 9:26 AM, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe > wrote: > > Hi rain1, > > Quoth ra...@openmailbox.org: >> GNU Bash is 138227 lines of code. I wrote a simpler shell* in 800 lines: >> https://notabug.org/rain1/s/ >> >> *It is not a true POSIX shell. You can't run existing scripts with