Show HN: Gum, a tool for glamorous shell scripts

55 points by maaslalani 2 years ago | 9 comments
  • ducktective 2 years ago
    So it's a beefed-up colorful alternative to `fzf + input + ncurses-like prompts` where you would use English descriptive subcommands instead of shell redirections.

    Nice! Kudos.

    • moondev 2 years ago
      I'm blown away by everything about this. The idea, execution, readme, packaging... everything. This feels like the slick lightweight zenity or yad for the terminal that I have always wanted - but actually better than I imagined. Can't wait to try this.
      • maaslalani 2 years ago
        Thank you so much for the kind words! It really means a lot.
      • DiabloD3 2 years ago
        A lot of things Charm is doing is pretty neat, but until they're packaged by major distros (my home distro of Debian still has none of these; and for such a niche tooling, I'm not using your third party Debian repo), they're hard to fit into anything I expect to run anywhere.

        Also, have you ever considered rolling your own pager that can self file watch and remember scroll position across watch iterations? The Glow markdown reader is neat, but I'd like to use it with vim in a way where :w automatically refreshes Glow running in another tmux pane.

        • moondev 2 years ago
          Or just run it directly from your script on any platform/arch that has go - no need for root to install an outdated distro specific package

              go run github.com/charmbracelet/gum@latest
          • DiabloD3 2 years ago
            I'm not big on using language-specific tooling. Programs need to be part of the package manager management loop of a distro to ever be adopted, especially for developers who don't use those languages.

            Using language-specific package managers can only lead to out of date software, security bugs, and other nastiness. Same reason I don't install programs with pip, npm, or other crazy things.

            • allarm 2 years ago
              Then do your part and become a maintainer. I don’t think that a small team of developers has cycles to do that at this point.