Show HN: History suggest box for your shell

Re:Show HN: History suggest box for your shell by mprovost on Monday December 28, 2020 @06:21AM (#25558348)

You’ve just picked an arbitrary point in the development of these tools that you’re happy with and are suggesting that any progress beyond that point is wasted. I’m sure there were folks around when bash development started saying that they were super productive in Bourne shell so why start a rewrite from scratch. Is vim the terminal point of editor development, forever? Why wasn’t it when nvi replaced Joy’s original vi? Why aren’t we still using ex?

All of the tools you mentioned started as rewrites of existing tools and only became better over time as they added features. That process hasn’t stopped.

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Re:Show HN: History suggest box for your shell by chris_st on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:52AM (#25558824)

Well put. I got very good at typing:

    find . -type f -exec egrep -il "whatever" {} \;

and now I instead type:

    rg whatever

and, somehow, I feel like that's an improvement.

And it automatically ignores the directories like .git, build, node_modules, etc., whatever is in .gitignore, without having to add a bunch of "-prune" clauses.

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