Desk
Dev tools
shell workspace manager
SHOW HN2015
94points
9comments
#263of 2,565 in 2015
Top 11%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
1 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful concept for terminal context switching
From 2 comments
This looks useful! I've also been working on tools to make user context switching easier on the terminal (such as a project of mine called prm[0]), and I'm currently working on…
eivarv on HNI like the concept.
twsted on HN
Objections
Unclear what problem it solves or how it helps
From 2 comments
I don't understand this concept at all. How this can help me?
systemz on HNThe main feature seems to be that you're letting me use the same command in different environments, to do different things?
aliakhtar on HN
Automatic cd hooks cause hard-to-debug behaviour
From 1 comment
No it would not. I cannot begin to count the hours I've lost debugging ruby script based tools implicitly dependent on this behaviour. Just no. rbenv is better, particularly due…
techdragon on HN
Requests
Hook workspace switching into cd like rvm
From 1 comment
It would be cool if this functionality could be hooked into cd like rvm does.
bryanlarsen on HN
Questions
How does it differ from tmux sessions?
From 2 comments
On the surface, Desk workspaces seem very similar to tmux sessions. I'm curious why one would choose Desk over tmux to manage multiple workspaces in the shell?…
jabagonuts on HNFrom what I saw they're rather dissimilar. Desk reminds me more of Python's virtualenv.
nightcracker on HN
Alternatives named
tmux sessions
From 1 comment
On the surface, Desk workspaces seem very similar to tmux sessions. I'm curious why one would choose Desk over tmux to manage multiple workspaces in the shell?…
jabagonuts on HN
Python virtualenv
From 1 comment
From what I saw they're rather dissimilar. Desk reminds me more of Python's virtualenv.
nightcracker on HN
rbenv
From 1 comment
No it would not. I cannot begin to count the hours I've lost debugging ruby script based tools implicitly dependent on this behaviour. Just no. rbenv is better, particularly due…
techdragon on HN
zaw history search
From 1 comment
zaw's[1] history widget on Ctrl-R is so much better than the regular backward history search that it's difficult to imagine using a shell without it anymore. 1:…
rane on HN