Show HN: Desk – lightweight workspace management for the shell

jabagonuts10y ago· 1 in thread

On the surface, Desk workspaces seem very similar to tmux sessions. I'm curious why one would choose Desk over tmux to manage multiple workspaces in the shell? https://robots.thoughtbot.com/a-tmux-crash-course

nightcracker10y ago

From what I saw they're rather dissimilar.

Desk reminds me more of Python's virtualenv.

bryanlarsen10y ago· 1 in thread

It would be cool if this functionality could be hooked into cd like rvm does.

techdragon10y ago

No it would not. I cannot begin to count the hours I've lost debugging ruby script based tools implicitly dependent on this behaviour. Just no. rbenv is better, particularly due to totally not doing that sort of "magic".

rane10y ago

zaw's[1] history widget on Ctrl-R is so much better than the regular backward history search that it's difficult to imagine using a shell without it anymore.

1: https://github.com/zsh-users/zaw

eivarv10y ago

This looks useful!

I've also been working on tools to make user context switching easier on the terminal (such as a project of mine called prm[0]), and I'm currently working on bringing this sort of functionality to the desktop environment.

If you (or anyone else) wants to talk about these sorts of things, or know of any good relevant research, please drop me a line here or at eivind dot arvesen at gmail dot com.

[0]: https://github.com/eivind88/prm

systemz10y ago

I don't understand this concept at all. How this can help me?

aliakhtar10y ago

The main feature seems to be that you're letting me use the same command in different environments, to do different things?

twsted10y ago

I like the concept.

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