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Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)Posted Jun 25, 2008 10:16 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine) by drag Parent article: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)
Every shell has their own set of built-ins. Stuff that conflicts and may break scripts and such. Pointing at some symbolic link vs trapping commands vs wrappers around library functions.. what's the difference? Different ways to accomplish the same goals.Yeah, but this isn't really like that, not yet. This is like it would be if you had a shell with extensible builtins (like bash or zsh) but for which you needed to know if commands were built-in or not, because built-in commands had a different syntax. (As an aside, has anyone ever seen the loadable dynamic builtin stuff in bash used? I've seen loadable builtins in zsh used occasionally, but never the corresponding bash feature.)
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Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jun 25, 2008 17:56 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] It depends on how you look at it. With python you avoid the source --> compile --> linker cycle. You just edit the source code, add your functions to a library or to a directory, and the compiling and that sort of thing is done on the fly. With bash you'd have to get the source code and edit it to extend it, unless you use a plugin or extension feature like you mentioned just now. That being said, I like the idea of a script-based shell. It's very similar to Emacs.. the major difference here is that hotwire isn't going to pretend its a editor to trick programmers into trying it out. :) After playing around with hotwire I've decided that I like the concept very much. If the keybindings can be made to be theme-able then it should be simple to make my own screen-like, vi-like bindings. Any thoughts on a mode-based shell? :)
Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jun 26, 2008 12:34 UTC (Thu) by mish (guest, #52694) [Link] > After playing around with hotwire I've decided that I like the concept very much. If the > keybindings can be made to be theme-able then it should be simple to make my own screen-like, > vi-like bindings. > > Any thoughts on a mode-based shell? :) I've typed up some thoughts before in this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/hotwire-shell/browse_threa... I'm hacking on other stuff at the moment though, so don't hold your breath. But new hackers are welcome if you want to help move this forward :)
Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine) Posted Jun 30, 2008 19:05 UTC (Mon) by massimiliano (subscriber, #3048) [Link] There is work ongoing on making a free "posh", google for it... It could be nice if the projects cooperated :-)
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