Re:Rich Command Shells (2014)
by qwerty456127 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @09:01AM
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Cool! I can't wait to try it. But make sure it implements rainbow parentheses and powerful intuitive autocompletion. These former is essential to make a LISP editor usable, the latter is essential to make it cool enough for people to care trying it.
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I haven't gotten to implementing the TUI yet :) in the beginning it will probably just be a readline-based prompt, but when I have implemented ANSI escape sequence parsing in ncurses I will get to writing a proper ncurses TUI.
Re:Rich Command Shells (2014)
by qwerty456127 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:12PM
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TUI (or even GUI) is a great thing I would be amazed to see a good shell equipped with yet it is not really necessary as far as I understand. Take a look at the FISH shell - it is quite colourful and has reasonable (not perfect but the best I've seen so far and already helpful) autocompletion already.