Show HN: Gum, a tool for glamorous shell scripts
55 points by maaslalani 2 years ago | 9 comments- ducktective 2 years agoSo 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 agoI'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 agoThank you so much for the kind words! It really means a lot.
- maaslalani 2 years ago
- DiabloD3 2 years agoA 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2 years agoOr just run it directly from your script on any platform/arch that has go - no need for root to install an outdated distro specific package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 agoI'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Using language-specific package managers can only lead to out of date software, security bugs, and other nastiness.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 agoThen 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.
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- DiabloD3 2 years ago
- moondev 2 years ago