Re: [dev] [edit] Introducing edit, a simple text editor

2023-10-24 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Страхиња, On 10/24/23, Страхиња Радић wrote: > On 23/10/23 03:11PM, Kyryl Melekhin wrote: >> Since this is my creation I might be biased, but I still think that Nextvi >> is >> the best suckless editor. > > That should be left for others to decide. > > >>

Re: [dev] [edit] Introducing edit, a simple text editor

2023-10-24 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Hey guys, On this topic, I would like to revisit Nextvi. It's been a year since my last post. The editor has been getting some lovely quality of life updates while still adhering to the original philosophy. Since this is my creation I might be biased, but I still think that Nextvi is the best suc

Re: [dev] [dwm] Xorg crashed if I ran Pale Moon in dwm

2022-06-22 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Hi, just don't use version 31, it's just broken IIRC. Compile 29.4.6

Re: [dev] Suckless CMatrix clone

2022-05-29 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Hello Ryan, Ryan Raymond wrote: > Hello all. I'm working on a suckless cmatrix clone. > It's not done yet, and it still suffers from constant memory leakage, but > I'm having fun working on it. > It already shows 50% reduced cpu/ram usage vs cmatrix, despite greatly > improved fps. Furthermore,

Re: [dev] ii: how to process out in a pipeline and still page with less

2022-05-27 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
"Greg Reagle" wrote: > I have a file named "out" (from ii) that I want to view. Of course, it can > grow while I am viewing it. I can view it with "tail -f out" or "less +F out > ", both of which work. I also want to apply some processing in a pipeline, > something like "tail -f out | tr a A |

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-13 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Michael Hendricks wrote: > Agreed. > > > If anybody wants to go and fix the build let me know of your fork or > > patch as I want to try it, out of curiosity. > > After cloning the repo[1], I ran `autoreconf -fi` to generate a > configure script. Then `./configure && make`. Aside from the > auto

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-13 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Greg Minshall wrote: > Michael, > > > You might like se[1]. It's a screen-oriented version of ed. It can be > > helpful for certain editing tasks where visual feedback is wanted. > > ... > > 1: https://github.com/screen-editor/se/ > > very nice. thanks for the pointer! > > cheers, Greg I've he

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-11 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Daniel Littlewood wrote: > Hi all, > > There was a recent chat about cat -v & single-purpose programs which > has been rattling around my head for the last few weeks. There are > *many* bloated code editors (atom, vscode, etc.), but most people > usually present either emacs or vim as an alternat

Re: [dev] Is there a text editor following the UNIX philosophy?

2022-02-11 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
craekz wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 11:47:56AM +, Daniel Littlewood wrote: > > It seems to me like the obvious alternative workflow would be, rather > > than to have a single monolithic program for the general job of > > "editing text" (which is really lots of jobs pretending to be one),

Re: [dev] cat -v

2022-01-31 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Greg Minshall wrote: > i think it was a Rob Pike paper, maybe Usenix, probably in the 1990s. > the idea, iirc, is that you can always pipe the output of cat(1) into > od(1), or into any other program you wanted, so keep cat simple. good > paper (but, sometimes i do `cat -v`). By the way, here i

Re: [dev] cat -v

2022-01-30 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
wrote: > Why is cat -v considered bad? I see that people often bring up > this particular example as a way to illustrate bad extensions, but > what exactly makes it so? Hi, by design cat is not supposed to be used for printing stuff to the terminal. The fact that it does in the first place is a

Re: [dev] Wayland compositors

2021-09-16 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Hello guys, I recently tried out Wayland and here are some of my thoughts. They market it as a "shiny new object". OK. So I compiled all the libs, and tried the dwl compositor. I like suckless and dwl supposed to be like dwm but on wayland. Let's perform a simple test: I open the foot terminal (

[dev] Suckless regex

2021-08-10 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
https://github.com/kyx0r/pikevm Suckless regex implementation, please consider. Bye, Kyryl.

Re: [dev] [dwm] Why should (or shouldn't) dwm have a spawn function?

2021-06-29 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Splitting of code into separate programs in a lot of cases can create more bloat. Unix philosophy is not the be all end all; you have to weigh the benefits and drawbacks to see where it makes sense. In this case using dwm for all your shortkeys is less bloat than using sxhkd which does a lot more s

Re: [dev] Ada not Rust

2021-04-19 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Jeremy wrote: > What does Ada(or Rust for that matter) do better than C? > > Surely, you have all of the tools for static analysis, debugging, macros > for C that you would for any other language, no? > > I could understand generics, interfaces, iterators, OOP and all of that > from a masturbator

Re: [dev] Programs that rock

2021-01-24 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Mart Zirnask wrote: > I will definitely try out neatvi, but shouldn't you mention somewhere > in your readme that it is a fork of Ali Gohlami Rudi's neatvi? [1] His > other framebuffer applications [2] would probably also deserve a place > in the 'rocks' listing. True, it does not mention that i

[dev] Programs that rock

2021-01-24 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
Hello suckless community, in the past few month's I have been working on 2 programs (mostly for myself, because everything else really sucks) and I believe that they have come to the point of being ready for production. Therefore I request you to update the "rocks" page on suckless.org. Onscreen

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2021-01-14 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
filip wrote: > Hello, > I have set up bindings for zooming, but when I try to zoom it only > scrolls... > Is this is a common issue? > > //F Greetings, Zoom does not work in st if you are using bitmap fonts. Or it does work, but only for the dimensions you have for that specific font. So if you

[dev] [ dev ] [ st ] [ PATCH ] concurrency window size bug

2020-06-05 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
This bug is very exceptional and will only affect users who run other terminal programs with st. For example running " st -e vim . " " st -e lynx " etc ... The bug happens randomly, and on some systems may not even exist, very hard to reproduce and predict. On my system with clean st build changes

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2020-06-05 Thread Kyryl Melekhin
dev+subscr...@suckless.org