Show HN: Gum, a tool for glamorous shell scripts

Show HN: Gum, a tool for glamorous shell scripts(github.com)

55 points by maaslalani 3 years ago | 9 comments

So it's a beefed-up colorful alternative to `fzf + input + ncurses-like prompts` where you would use English descriptive subcommands instead of shell redirections.

Nice! Kudos.

moondev 3 years ago |

I'm blown away by everything about this. The idea, execution, readme, packaging... everything. This feels like the slick lightweight zenity or yad for the terminal that I have always wanted - but actually better than I imagined. Can't wait to try this.

maaslalani 3 years ago | |

Thank you so much for the kind words! It really means a lot.

DiabloD3 3 years ago |

A lot of things Charm is doing is pretty neat, but until they're packaged by major distros (my home distro of Debian still has none of these; and for such a niche tooling, I'm not using your third party Debian repo), they're hard to fit into anything I expect to run anywhere.

Also, have you ever considered rolling your own pager that can self file watch and remember scroll position across watch iterations? The Glow markdown reader is neat, but I'd like to use it with vim in a way where :w automatically refreshes Glow running in another tmux pane.

moondev 3 years ago | |

Or just run it directly from your script on any platform/arch that has go - no need for root to install an outdated distro specific package

    go run github.com/charmbracelet/gum@latest

DiabloD3 3 years ago | | |

I'm not big on using language-specific tooling. Programs need to be part of the package manager management loop of a distro to ever be adopted, especially for developers who don't use those languages.

Using language-specific package managers can only lead to out of date software, security bugs, and other nastiness. Same reason I don't install programs with pip, npm, or other crazy things.