navi VS delta

I've built something similar for myself (fzf+a bit of shell). But I realized that fzf's history view (with very long history buffer) works much better for my use case.

I still needed something to cover rare commands with dynamic arguments. That got covered by Navi: https://github.com/denisidoro/navi (takes more friction to add new command than with TBMK, but you get much more organized and easier to search tool).

navi repo add denisidoro/navi-tldr-pages Cloning https://github.com/denisidoro/navi-tldr-pages into /home//.local/share/navi/cheats/tmp... Cloning into '/home//.local/share/navi/cheats/tmp'... remote: Enumerating objects: 1841, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (1841/1841), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1756/1756), done. remote: Total 1841 (delta 83), reused 1839 (delta 83), pack-reused 0 Receiving objects: 100% (1841/1841), 504.71 KiB | 1.95 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (83/83), done. Hey, listen! navi encountered a problem. Do you think this is a bug? File an issue at https://github.com/denisidoro/navi. Caused by: 0: Failed to import cheatsheets from `denisidoro/navi-tldr-pages` 1: Failed to get cheatsheet files from finder 2: Failed to pass data to finder 3: Unable to prompt cheats to import 4: Broken pipe (os error 32)

Similar projects (in a way): navi

navi might help you with that

I like using navi, but idk if you want something that runs in the terminal.

There's also a cli program called tealdeer that does this kind of thing and uses a local cache. And there's a fuzzy search interactive cli cheatsheet program called navi that's also pretty cool (and you can write your own cheatsheets).

I'm using navi[0] for this exact purpose and very happy with it. Now it is one of indispensable tool for my workflow

[0] https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

navi looks for files ending in .cheat with a particular structure. I won't re-hash the entire tutorial from the navi repository since it's quite good and comprehensive, but the TL;DR is:

Thanks for the difftastic & zoxide tips.

However, I've been using this git pager/difftool: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

While it's not structural like difft, it does produce more readable output for me (at least when scrolling fast through git log -p /scanning quickly

View on GitHub

I'm currently waiting on the integration between Delta and Difftastic:

https://github.com/dandavison/delta/issues/535

Difftastic now has JSON output, whic should make it much easier to build this.

Semi-related, I recently discovered https://github.com/dandavison/delta: A syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output

It appears to enable choosing between unified and split views for each of those tools.

I'm surely in the minority here. I've been using Emacs for almost a decade now, but I just can't get into the Magit workflow. I've tried several times, but always end up going back to Git on the command line. I have dozens of aliases, shell integrations, a nice diff viewer[1], etc., and interacting with Git has become muscle memory. I can commit, cherry-pick, rebase, bisect, fix conflicts, etc., in a fraction of the time it would take me to navigate Magit's UI. I'm sure with enough practice, a Magit user could do this more quickly and efficiently, but honestly, with some custom-built porcelain, Git's UI is not so bad. Though this could very well be Stockholm syndrome after using it for such a long time...

For whatever reason, Magit's opinionated workflows never clicked with me. A part of it is the concern that it will do something weird to my repo that I'll then have to waste more time undoing manually. I usually don't trust sugary wrappers around tools. And another is the fact I don't use Emacs on all machines, and setting up Git on a remote system is just a matter of copying over my config and some shell integrations.

Also, on a more personal note, I find the cultish fanboyism whenever Magit is brought up slightly offputting. Does anyone have anything bad to say about it? No software can realistically be this infallible. :)

[1]: https://github.com/dandavison/delta

and for just in terminal also check out https://github.com/dandavison/delta for nicer looking diffs, didn't really like the defaults, but with some config I really like it.