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

2022-02-13 Thread Michael Hendricks
> I've heard of se before, however was never able to build it. Such a shame > that a small project like this (5K loc) uses auto* hell configure and make > for no reason. 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.

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

2022-02-12 Thread Michael Hendricks
> Jonathan Bakke wrote: > Daniel Littlewood wrote: > > From the other end, there is always ed. > > I use ed. Each tool is specialized, though. > > I prefer vi-like editing for fixing typos. Having visual feedback > drastically reduces errors from commands like sed. You might like se[1]. It's a

Re: [dev] [surf] XDG conformity

2021-12-18 Thread Michael Hendricks
Hi Janek, > After trying surf recently, I was appalled to see a ".surf" > directory in my home. Is XDG basedir compliance not natural in > suckless software? dmenu is the only suckless software I know that does anything related to the XDG basedir spec. I think the suckless way is to implement

Re: [dev] [libgrapheme] announcement

2020-03-27 Thread Michael Hendricks
> I'm very glad to announce libgrapheme[0], a library for handling grapheme > clusters. To avoid Warnock's dilemma, let me just say that this looks excellent. The API and implementation is clean and focused. Thank you for publishing this library.

Re: [dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-25 Thread Michael Hendricks
> Anybody else enjoying Go? Or hating it? I've been writing Go code daily for about six years now. Overall I like it. It sucks less than most languages I've worked with. I enjoy that the language has stayed small (~80 page spec) and the developers have declined nearly all feature requests for