djb-at-durable

Just nvim. Neovim runs :! commands non-interactively, capturing the output in a pipe. vim, on the other hand, suspends itself and runs the command in an external shell.

This isn't a problem, really, for non interactive commands, but causes issues with interactive ones. I personally prefer vim's approach, though not enough to abandon neovim.

I feel like that's also what's running the backend of Spirit Airlines, but somehow it feels more impressive in the context of Voyager 1.

We just released dpc; its a database for your projects with a nifty shell integration.

Basically, if you do this:

dpc scan ~/projects

... you can then do this:

j my_project_inside_of_a_monorepo

... and end up at:

~/projects/some/really/long/path/my_project_inside_of_a_monorepo

Its an open source project written in rust; it has shell integration with bash, zsh, and fish. There's no upsell here; no cloud service attached, just a thing we made because it seemed helpful.

It categorizes projects by configurable hints: a .git directory, a Cargo.toml, a Gemfile, a package.json, etc. The database stores which one it see also, so you can query it if you'd like.

Take it easy,

David Berube Durable Programming