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This is what I use. Or if you don’t need image/PDF embedding or mobile support then VimWiki is a similar solution that is FOSS.

This is an interesting idea! When I was learning Nix, and feeling frustrated, I often thought that a type-checked language would help with discoverability. But it seems like it might be difficult to combine strong type-checking with Nix expressions’ use of lazy self-reference. So with Garn you get the type-checking, but lose the laziness. I’m interested to see how that goes.

It looks like it’s made by the same team that made Journey

No, but I’ve now heard it recommended enough times that I think I’ll check it out. It looks like it’s a free download for the Switch. Are there micro transactions, or subscriptions, or some such thing?

I’m finding this mess interesting: the MAGAs vote and debate like a third party, which kinda gives us a House with no majority party which is something we usually don’t get to see in America. And we’re getting the deadlocks that come from a chamber that isn’t willing to form a coalition - or at least not a reliable one.

I just hope the next speaker candidate doesn’t try for the same Republican-MAGA coalition. Although I’m prepared to be disappointed. Do you think there’s any chance a Republican would offer to sideline the MAGAs to get support from Democrats?

Under this analysis the Democrats have a plurality. How does that tend to work out in governments with more than two parties?

Thanks for the tip about nu_scripts, those look handy!

The expand command is nice. I don’t see how to use it to my mv command work. But that’s not a huge deal.

So maybe this is too much of a kludge, but I happened to see that you can define custom sub-commands to extend existing commands. You can use that to reproduce your familiar command:

def "ls -lrt" [] {
  ls | sort-by modified | reverse
}

Of course this does not capture the usual composability of those switches.

Well I might be hooked. It didn’t take me long to reproduce the niceties in Nushell I’m used to from my zsh config. Some of the important parts were setting up zoxide with a key binding for interactive mode, switching on vi key bindings, setting up my starship prompt.

Home Manager is preconfigured for the above integrations which made things easier.

One feature that is missing that I like to use is curly brace expansion to produce multiple arguments. For example,

$ mv *.{jpg,jpeg}

Unless there is a way to do something like this in Nushell that I haven’t seen yet?

Something I enjoyed was automating a sequence of steps I’ve been running a lot lately due to a program that often partially crashes,

def nkill [name_substring] {
  ps | where name =~ $name_substring | each { |p| kill $p.pid; $p }
}

I realized after writing this that I basically recreated killall -r. But it’s nice that it was so easy to make a custom command to do a very specific thing. And my version gives me a nice report of exactly what was killed.

Thanks for making this post OP! When I’ve heard mentions of Nushell I’m the past I think I conflated it with Powershell, and wrote it off as a Windows thing. (Maybe because it’s introduced as being “like Powershell”.) But now that I see that it’s cross-platform I’m enjoying digging into it!

I think the best way to get an idea is to look at feature lists for fancy shells like zsh or fish. But in short there are a number of things a good shell can do to help to execute commands faster and more easily. Stuff like autocompletions which make you faster, and also make things more discoverable; fuzzy searching/matching; navigating command history; syntax highlighting which helps to spot errors, and helps to understand the syntax of the command you’re writing.

My main game continues to be Overwatch.

I’ve also been playing some Diablo IV. I’ve been taking my time - there is a lot to enjoy in that game. I just teamed up with my brother to finish the last act of the main story.