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New comment by ilyagr in "Coreutils for Windows"

ilyagr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:00:31 +0000

Now the readme says

"Note: Any command not mentioned is included in this suite. "

which I found quite confusing. It's a very large set, potentially infinite depending on what the universe of all commands is :)

You should link to the list of all the commands in your package.

New comment by ilyagr in "I made a terminal pager"

ilyagr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:08:56 +0000

https://github.com/noborus/ov is another pager, in addition to `moor` that somebody else shared.

New comment by ilyagr in "Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system"

ilyagr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:11:29 +0000

I believe this is what `git rerere` does

New comment by ilyagr in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

ilyagr — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:03:21 +0000

Thanks for the useful info!

New comment by ilyagr in "TeX Live 2026 is available for download now"

ilyagr — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:55:57 +0000

https://github.com/typst/typst is an interesting competitor to ConTeXt. It's not even TeX, but somehow I tried (and liked) it before I tried CoTeXt. TeX syntax is not something I ever enjoyed in LaTeX.

How much more compatible with LaTeX is ConTeXt than typst? For example, is there tikz for ConTeXt?

New comment by ilyagr in "Parsync, a tool for parallel SSH transfers – 7x faster than rsync"

ilyagr — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:50:30 +0000

This is less of a usable tool and more of a concept right now, but there are algorithmic ways to do better than rsync (for incremental transfers, ymmv).

https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer

Hint: I really like the animated gifs on that page but they are best viewed frame-by-frame like a presentation.

New comment by ilyagr in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

ilyagr — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:54:55 +0000

OpenAI's new safety restrictions are magnificent, though unfortunately hard to comprehend for those who are incompetent or stupid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes

Life follows art even closer than I thought when this story first reminded me of Andersen.

New comment by ilyagr in "Assorted less(1) tips"

ilyagr — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:14:30 +0000

Actually, it would be more correct to do

    echo '^q toggle-option -redraw-on-quit\nq' >> ~/.config/lesskey

The original version I suggested works too, but by accident. `redraw-on-quit` is the actual option name.

(I'd edit my original message, but it's too late for that)

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Also, note that if you put `--redraw-on-quit` into your `LESS` config (and not `-X`), and set up `^q` as above, things will still work but with flipped behavior of `q` and `^q`.

If your version of `less` is new enough, I believe that the `--redraw-on-quit` behavior is in every way (slightly) better than the `-X` behavior. In addition to the above, some terminals have special behaviors in alternate screen (like converting mouse wheel to up/down keys), which `--redraw-on-quit` will preserve.

New comment by ilyagr in "Assorted less(1) tips"

ilyagr — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:02:04 +0000

If you want the `-X` behavior only some of the time, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472859. (Maybe I should've posted it in this thread)

New comment by ilyagr in "Assorted less(1) tips"

ilyagr — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:42:28 +0000

There's a way to make `^q` quit `less` and not clear the screen (like `less -X`), while `q` quits `less` and clears the screen (like normal `less`).

1. Do `echo '^q toggle-option -redraw-screen\nq' >> ~/.config/lesskey`

2. Make sure `less` is invoked without `-X` (or with `-+X` if you want to be sure).

This `^q` command is particularly useful for `git log` output and other things where you might need to refer back to them in the next terminal command you do. (In fact, `git` uses `less -FRX` by default, so you'd need to override its config to use `less -FR` instead for the above to work as intended). The `q` command is useful when you don't want to lose what you had on the screen before invoking `less`.

New comment by ilyagr in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

ilyagr — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:10:11 +0000

See also https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/wiki/JJ-Con-2025 for a list of all the talks, their slides, and some additional notes. I think the slides are also linked from youtube, but the website definitely has them.

New comment by ilyagr in "Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)"

ilyagr — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 23:59:34 +0000

VS Code now has an OKish git graph built-in, in case you didn't know. This feature is a few months old.

New comment by ilyagr in "Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus (2021)"

ilyagr — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:40:56 +0000

The intro for the show is quite nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucSUs3adMQ8 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=halt+and+catch+...

New comment by ilyagr in "We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application"

ilyagr — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:37:09 +0000

If you're like a quick fix, see https://ghostty.org/docs/help/terminfo#copy-ghostty's-termin.... If that doesn't work, perhaps one of the other suggestions on that page will.

New comment by ilyagr in "Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US"

ilyagr — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 03:35:37 +0000

According to the link, the patents in question expire in 2028.

New comment by ilyagr in "Vet is a safety net for the curl | bash pattern"

ilyagr — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:37:55 +0000

One option is https://github.com/binpash/try

It is Linux-only, though.

New comment by ilyagr in "Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs"

ilyagr — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:26:49 +0000

https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/wiki/Structural-Diffs is a nice list of alternatives.

Difftastic itself is great as well! The author wrote up nice posts about its design: https://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2022/09/06/difftastic-the-fan..., https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/diffing.html.

New comment by ilyagr in "Diffsitter – A Tree-sitter based AST difftool to get meaningful semantic diffs"

ilyagr — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:04:51 +0000

In case anybody happens to be interested in testing `gumtree` with https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj, I think I got them to work together. See https://github.com/GumTreeDiff/gumtree/wiki/VCS-Integration#... (assumes Docker).

New comment by ilyagr in "Take Two: Eshell"

ilyagr — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:26:30 +0000

Is <https://github.com/trapd00r/vidir> the same as `vidir` from <https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/>?

Shout out to moreutils, there are many nice utilities, and there's a `moreutils` package in most distributions.

Update: Looking at the authors listed in the man pages, the `trapd00r` version looks to be a fork of the moreutils version. Not sure how the functionality compares. Both versions seem to have been updated since the fork.

New comment by ilyagr in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

ilyagr — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 18:40:35 +0000

If you search the code, they support Rosetta, which means an ARM Linux kernel running x86 container userspace with Rosetta translation. Linux kernel can be told to use a helper to translate code using non-native architecture.

Actually, they explain it in detail here: https://github.com/apple/containerization/issues/70#issuecom...

It's unclear whether this will keep being supported in macOS 28+, though: https://github.com/apple/container/issues/76, https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/1l7maqp/comment/...