Xiki: Can your shell console do this?

Craig Muth
8 HN recommenders · recommended in 5 months, 2012–2015
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Craig Muth demonstrates Xiki, a shell console where text on screen can be edited, run and expanded like a menu. It mixes commands, files and results in one editable document.

HN submitted it repeatedly in 2012 as one of the most innovative takes on the command line and programmable console.

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@rotbart2012 · in “Amazing programm(ing|able) console. Mindblowing”
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@trogdoro2012 · in “"The most innovative and useful application I've ever seen"”
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@weslly2014 · in “Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim – Learning the lesson of vi”
The concept of Acme remembers me of Xiki[1]. It would be perfect with better fonts and/or code highlighting. [1]: ▶ this video
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@trogdoro2014 · in “Why Don’t We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor?”
I posted this on the blog itself, but re-mentioning it here... I've been evolving Xiki for over 10 years to do be a language for doing this kind of thing. The ideas is you can interact with trees and other nested structures (file paths, dbs, general UI's) from your text editor, using a simple plaintext representation, but in a GUI-like manner. I've done talks about Xiki at RubyConf, Strange Loop, and QCon. Here's a quick 3 minute video - ▶ this video I'm doing a Kickstarter campaign soon, to bring Xiki support to vim, sublime, and possibly other text editors!
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