SHML
Dev tools
shell scripting
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.36.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Liked the idea and the tty formatting approach
From 3 comments
I really like the idea of this, great work! Unrelated, I'm pretty sad that there hasn't been further work in packaging shell extensions like this. Most of it is adhoc, and people…
josegonzalez on HNMaking tty formatting very close to dom/css semantics, interesting.
agumonkey on HNWell, I like it. Thanks. I shall try using it for the MOTD on the HPC cluster I manage.
zhynn on HN
Works in MobaXTerm
From 1 comment
I like it! It even works in MobaXTerm. Although two tests failed.
ddvinay on HN
Objections
Launching a subprocess per directive would be slow on large output
From 1 comment
Nice! I am using some of the funny characters! Some remarks: I doubt if it is needed to launch a sub-process for each markup directive. This is fine for small output, but will…
joepvd on HN
Closing tags are awkward; nested color changes lack a stack model
From 2 comments
I'm a little surprised something like "$(fgcolor red hello)" requires a $(fgcolor end) - if you include arguments shouldn't it be self-closing? Then you get nice things like…
ianbicking on HNBut if you've done: "$(fgcolor red)red text$(fgcolor green "green text") what color is this?"... then it would have to model a stack on top of the actual underlying…
burke on HN
Two tests failed for one commenter
From 1 comment
I like it! It even works in MobaXTerm. Although two tests failed.
ddvinay on HN
Requests
Bash implementation using associative arrays
From 1 comment
Nice! I am using some of the funny characters! Some remarks: I doubt if it is needed to launch a sub-process for each markup directive. This is fine for small output, but will…
joepvd on HN
Self-closing directive syntax with arguments
From 1 comment
I'm a little surprised something like "$(fgcolor red hello)" requires a $(fgcolor end) - if you include arguments shouldn't it be self-closing? Then you get nice things like…
ianbicking on HN
Add title and line-break helpers
From 1 comment
I'm a little surprised something like "$(fgcolor red hello)" requires a $(fgcolor end) - if you include arguments shouldn't it be self-closing? Then you get nice things like…
ianbicking on HN
PowerShell version
From 1 comment
This is awesome, just a shame there isn't anything like this for MS PowerShell.
CrowderSoup on HN
Alternatives named
zsh colors function
From 1 comment
Nice! I am using some of the funny characters! Some remarks: I doubt if it is needed to launch a sub-process for each markup directive. This is fine for small output, but will…
joepvd on HN
PoshConsole for PowerShell
From 1 comment
> The other stuff (bold, pictures) requires host support (more than regular powershell.exe provides). PoshConsole made a nice stab at it. Sadly it is no longer developed, I…
shadowfox on HN