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transient | TabFS | |
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24 | 27 | |
606 | 3,780 | |
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9.3 | 1.6 | |
3 days ago | about 1 year ago | |
Emacs Lisp | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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On Desktop GUI Minimalism
> Even in this article just a few sentences after stating we should start from first principles he then jumps into the assumption of the "desktop".
Agree. Although I can see how the idea of "first principles" can be a very difficult starting point. A blank sheet of paper is a scary monster.
There's a huge breadth and depth of non-"desktop" GUIs out there, some (like smartphones) are even wildly successful. It's good to explore them for inspiration. Some of my favourites:
- Arcan (https://arcan-fe.com/about/) - I won't attempt to summarize, just dive in!
- SailfishOS (https://sailfishos.org/) - mobile UI focused on interaction through gestures / swipes; I've used it as my daily driver for a couple years.
- Speaking of mobiles, classic Nokia UIs allowed you to navigate to a specific item in the menu by pressing the corresponding digit on the dial pad. Once you learned where a particular item is, accessing e.g. your SMS inbox was extremely quick.
- Apple Watch / WatchOS (https://www.apple.com/watchos/) - I've always loved the idea of a device where one of the primary interaction methods was a wheel/dial of some sort. The watch even gives you context-sensitive tactile feedback.
- ZUIs in general (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface) and the work of Jef Raskin in particular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy_(software) - this is the guy who helped design the Macintosh, but his other work took a radically different route.
- Magit (https://magit.vc/). Many common git operations are reduced to a couple of keystrokes; the obscure features are more discoverable, and the cumbersome procedures (such as rebasing, or staging individual hunks) become simple and intuitive. Also check out transient (https://github.com/magit/transient), which is the "UI toolkit" that powers Magit.
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Warp is a modern, Rust-based terminal with AI built in
True, and I'd personally rather move away from Emacs to something more modern. (Helix is great, although I appreciate the irony of it being terminal-only, while Emacs supports several different window systems natively.) Magit is the only real reason I'm sticking with Emacs.
Magit itself is powered by <https://github.com/magit/transient>, which I see more as an interaction paradigm than a library; it could enable more ergonomic interaction with other stateful tools that are typically native to the command line / terminal (such as docker/kubectl, systemctl, mpd/mpc, etc). Rather than using Emacs as a middle layer, Transient could build on top of pluggable native toolkit backends, such as Cocoa, Gtk, Win32, or even web or a terminal.
We continue investing into terminals because the terminal remains the lowest common denominator of interacting with a computer. On the other end of the spectrum we have Electron, which has very clear and obvious downsides. I think there is low-hanging fruit with amazing ROI somewhere in the middle, and Magit/Transient is an example of what it could be.
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What do you use for git integration in neovim?
You can also manage via a holistic UI: - Bisection - Log and reflog, stashes - subtrees, submodules - certain third party subcommands like git-absorb, and extend it with your own - interact with issues and pull requests via forge - pretty much all of the hundreds of CLI flags via a modal UI that got generalized and extracted to a lib called transient - well-integrated diff and conflict resolution (which is mostly just smerge) - the rebase/cherry-pick workflows I liked the best, including support for --update-refs - at any time you can always press a key to see the raw commands and output that it's using, which taught me a ton of corner cases - IMO it has a great manual
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Transient Demo Requests?
See https://github.com/magit/transient/issues/239 .
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Transient v0.4.0 released
More information can be found on my blog and in the release notes.
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Dynamic Transient Infixes Based on Current Values of Other Infixes
AFAIK :if etc. do not "live update", but only function on initial prefix setup (see this issue). You could use a sub-prefix that evaluates settings from its parent to set the available options. Another tip: add an incompatible list so you can't get two desserts:
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I cannot get EmacSQL to work
Yeah, ok, simplest is then to just trash the transient folder and either let Emacs clone it again on startup, or manually clone it: https://github.com/magit/transient
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Khoj Chat: A Search Assistant for your Org-Mode Notes
M-x khoj RET c via transient
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Transient for resizing windows
This is about resizing the frame, but might also be relevant: https://github.com/magit/transient/issues/216.
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quick-actions.el: Uniform Compile/Run/Debug across programming languages
Will a hydra or a transient menu?
TabFS
- The File Filesystem
- Ask HN: What is your wishlist for a new browser interface?
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On Desktop GUI Minimalism
It may not be exactly what you have in mind but there is an interesting extension along similar lines (mostly for chrome) called TabFS that mounts your open tabs as a filesystem...
https://omar.website/tabfs/
- bash command to catch opened url by browser
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TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac would
I hoped it does something like TabFS and I could query my tabs content with SQL but it's not. Seems useless to me, sorry.
https://github.com/osnr/TabFS
- How do I get the list of "opened tabs" on firefox? Active and inactive tabs.
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Ask HN: Alternatives to organizing code in files and folders?
> Using ls for listing modules/classes...
Interesting. Just made me think of using a custom filesystem to navigate a codebase. Similar to: https://github.com/osnr/TabFS. I wonder if anyone has done this.
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How I Built A Python Command Line Tool To Enhance My Browser Usage
You might also be interested in TabFS https://omar.website/tabfs/ - which would exposes the browser's tab as a filesystem.
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TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
Hmm, this might be the right audience - anyone with C and JS skills want to poke at https://github.com/osnr/TabFS/issues/75 and maybe come up with a pull request? (I got as far as I could on the C side, all the details are in the issue, but I'm not sure what shape the javascript side of the fix would be...)
What are some alternatives?
emacs-lite
yet-another-speed-dial - a modern speed dial for chrome, edge and firefox
ani-cli - A cli tool to browse and play anime
firefox-sidebery-minimal-style - Universal minimal style for Firefox and Sidebery
emacs-light - My lightweight bare necessities emacs config
warpinator - Share files across the LAN
crunchyroll-go - 📚 A Crunchyroll (beta) API implementation in Go
chrome-session-dump - A program for extracting information from chrome session files.
anime-helper-shell - A python shell for searching, watching, and downloading anime.
side-view - An experiment with opening mobile views of pages in the sidebar
evil - The extensible vi layer for Emacs.
btfs - A bittorrent filesystem based on FUSE.