Scsh Reference Manual

by pmoriarty • 12 years ago

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philjackson3• 12 years ago

I tried this years ago. I can't really remember much about it other that it's a great idea, but in reality made it hard to do things that should have been easy.

userbinator• 12 years ago

From http://scsh.net/docu/html/man-Z-H-2.html#node_sec_1.4

It is not a very comfortable system for interactive command use: the current release lacks job control, command-line editing, a terse, convenient command syntax

One thing it's missing, which would probably make it much easier to use, is parenthesis completion.

spot• 12 years ago

your editor should do that not your language.

philjackson3• 12 years ago

I was using it non-interactively.

mpweiher• 12 years ago

Can you try to remember what those things were? I am working on a project that includes something similar (not nearly as evolved) and would be curious as to what to look out for.

philjackson3• 12 years ago

Vague memories of not being able to extract matching groups after executing a regexp. Things like that were annoying.

Fightback• 12 years ago

The acknowledgements are well worth the read...

cpach2• 12 years ago

I may be dense, but I never found them funny or even interesting. Anyone care to explain?[+]

[+] Or will y'all go Louis Armstrong on me? (https://quotabl.es/quotes/20237)

Crito• 12 years ago

If you don't find it funny initially, then it is very unlikely that you will find it funny after it's been explained.

Nevertheless, I find it humorous because it is very unexpected, quite extreme, and seems to prove itself in a way (one of the ideas that it presents is that his coworkers don't give a shit about what he is doing. That he was able to get away with putting this into his acknowledgements seems to suggest there is some truth in that (of course, realistically, he wasn't going to be fired for it)).

Kind of a combination of surrealist humor and shock humor. Today this sort of humor may seem a bit tired, but keep in mind that this was published a few years before Fight Club.

"Jack 'n Zac" always kills me too. Such a great name for such an improbable drink.

derFunk• 12 years ago

This is popping up regularly on HN...

plesner• 12 years ago

I use scsh every day, not interactively but the scripts that implement my workflow are written in scsh. I don't change them all that often but when have to tweak something or add a command it's an absolute delight. Imagine -- a shell language with decent power of abstraction.

Here's the main script I use, as an example of practial scsh (I don't know if it would be considered idiomatic): https://github.com/plesner/scsh/blob/master/ash

astine3• 12 years ago

Does anyone have access to the companion paper? The link[1] is broken.

1. http://scsh.net/docu/scsh-paper/scsh-paper.html

astine3• 12 years ago

Found a working link: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download;jsessionid=961...

inetsee• 12 years ago

When I saw this my first thought was to wonder whether it would be better to use this than to use Racket for systems/shell programming? The Racket documentation has a complete tutorial on using Racket for systems programming.

Can anyone who has used both comment on their relative merits?

P.S. Best Acknowledgements Page. EVER!

BFay• 12 years ago

0_o This might be amazing, but I think I'll stick with zsh or really any other shell where the author doesn't threaten murderous rampage ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠ ☠

silentmars• 12 years ago

It's very unlikely that you'd be a target in any such rampage... unless you keep complaining like this.

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