Re:TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
by beza1e1 on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @09:53AM
(#2560128)
"Notmuch is an answer to Sup. Sup is a very good email program written by William Morgan (and others) and is the direct inspiration for Notmuch. Notmuch began as an effort to rewrite performance-critical pieces of Sup in C rather than ruby. From there, it grew into a separate project. One significant contribution Notmuch makes compared to Sup is the separation of the indexer/searcher from the user interface."
Re:TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
by carmen on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @05:23PM
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why should indexer/searcher be coupled to email files in particular, instead of dispatching on MIME types? why should the datamodel be something ad-hoc instead of RDF?
http://blog.whats-your.name/post/2011/02/14/sifting-thru-you...
Re:TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
by BCM43 on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @06:40PM
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That's something that they are working on. One example of a useful application is a text ebook collection.
Re:TermKit - a graphical terminal replacement
by lallysingh on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @10:43AM
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Either way, large experiments like this are a necessary part of the path there.
There are, however, some concepts that are worth copying and that are in fact doable in current terminal environments. What I would like to see is more innovation in the world of console programs. There are lots of things to do in terms of auto-completion, navigation and integration etc.
Take a look at ranger [1] and sup [2] for examples of new neat console applications.
[1] http://ranger.nongnu.org/ [2] http://sup.rubyforge.org/