Simple-Comic VS fzf

🫴 Simple Comic free and open source - a reader for Graphic Novels, but it will also open image pdfs or a directory of images. It uses Apple's Vision Framework so you can use the mouse to select text in .pngs, .jpgs, and it has a Find command to make it all searchable. Once you've got the text, you can use the built-in Text-To-Speech to have it read to you, do a Google search, or paste it into translate.google.com to get it translated into a more comfortable language.

/u/F0x3S/ Take a look at this macOS Manga reader: https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic and https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic/issues/87 for handling OCRed text, with searching, and .cbz/.cbr metadata in a Manga reader.

It is macOS, not iOS, but take a look at Simple Comic, source code on github.

Source code at: https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic

I used the Vision framework to add full-text searching, and selection©ing to the text in Graphic Novels. Graphic Novels are just collection of image files, usually a zip of jpegs. It is a free reader app in the Apple App Store: Simple Comic It's for Mac, but it's open-source. The source code is here.

Take a look at https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic - it's an open source reader for .cbz files. It will compile and run on your Mac. It can open a .pdf and display just one or two pages at a time.

hideOCRMenusIfUnavailable in OCRTracker.m in the open-source App Simple Comic which, if you go into Preferences and turn off Recognize Text hides all the menu items that depending on recognizing text to function. Go into Preferences* and turn Recognize Text back on, and it puts those menu items back. That way, I don't have to explain to the user why those menus items are dim.

You give it a CGImageRef, and a block, and the block gets called back with an array of structs, each of which contains a rectangle, a confidence level, and a string, that corresponds to one line of text. https://github.com/DavidPhillipOster/MockSimpleComic takes that and wraps it in a layer, so you can mouse over the text like you can in Preview when you open a .png. https://github.com/MaddTheSane/Simple-Comic/ has been taking my pull requests and putting it up on the App Store. All available today, and with the Vision framework, which works back to the 2019 vintage macOS, and iOS.

In addition, I think bash's `operate-and-get-next` can be very helpful. When you go back through your shell history, you can hit Ctrl+o instead of enter and it will execute the command then put the next one in your history on the command line, and keep track of where you are in your history. This way, you can rerun a bunch of commands by going to the first one and Ctrl+o till you are done. And you can edit those commands and hit Ctrl+o and still go to the next previously run command.

Note: fzf's history search feature breaks this. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/2399

fzf : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig.

"git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

"git gone" removes local branches that don't exist on the remote.

"git root" prints out the root of the repo. You can alias it to "cd $(git root)", and zip back to the repo root from a deep directory structure. This one is less useful now for me since I started using zoxide to jump around. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

> my history is so noisy I had to find another way

The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2].

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax

[2]: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...

You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.

I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.

¹ https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

² https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

[2] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...