The second prototype is done, but buggy.
[Read More]Zsh Plumber: Prototype 1
Zsh Plumber - 0
What is it?
There is a very cool and useful tool out there called
Ultimate Plumber.
You call it with some-command | up,
and then it opens a simple TUI where
you write a pipeline at the top of the screen
and see results of some-command piped through that pipeline
beneath it.
It is such a wonderful tool for working with pipes, but there is one problem I have: it doesn’t use the Zsh line editor.
[Read More]What makes a shell?
I recently (re)discovered the Oil shell. The last time I saw it, it was trying to write a language to subsume Bash, Awk, and Make.
However, I came back to it doing nearly accomplishing two smaller goals:
- Writing a fast, statically-parsed shell (
osh) as close to Bash-compatible as possible. - Developing a stricter subset of Bash from which to build a new language (
oil).
And I really like it.
[Read More]Using Zparseopts
tl;dr: Always use the flags -D and -E (and -F if available).
Add a colon to indicate an argument is required
(similar to getopt)