apparix VS nxes

apparix

I used to keep some directory bookmarks with apparix, but nowadays I just use z.lua.

Neat! I'm also working on an extended version of es, it's been hard to work on it consistently, but I've torn out some old code, added a few useful primitives, and implemented a couple nice functions like pushd/popd in the shell itself.

What value does that 10MB bring? 10MB in a vacuum is not a problem with modern storage capacities, but bash is already around 7MB larger than a shell needs to be to supply the benefits it does. Look at shells like ksh, rc, or es (or my own fork nxes) for great examples of significantly smaller shells. Hell, there's barely more utility in bash (~8.44MB) than in oksh (~374KB).

I don't actually see the need to jump around the filesystem that much, but I mostly use this, on many work systems I use the built-in pushd/popd utilities in bash, and on other shells, make use of cd - for quicker backtracking.

Thanks for the link, I'll have to check it out! I've been hacking on an old, public domain shell called es in my spare time and have made some minor progess so far. One of my goals is to eliminate the reliance on a parser generator like Yacc and instead implement my own LALR or LR(1) parser, and was planning on trying to swap out the current Yacc file for something like lemon to start getting a better understanding of what's needed.