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+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "title: \"ANN: remembering - Add memory to dmenu, fzf and similar tools\""
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "date: 2021-01-26"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "layout: post"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "lang: en"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "ref: ann-remembering-add-memory-to-dmenu-fzf-and-similar-tools"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Previous solution"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"I previously used [yeganesh](http://dmwit.com/yeganesh/) fill this gap, but "
+"as I started to rely less on Emacs, I added fzf as my go-to tool for doing "
+"fuzzy searching on the terminal. But I didn't like that fzf always showed "
+"the same order of things, when I would only need 3 or 4 commonly used files."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"For those who don't know: yeganesh is a wrapper around dmenu that will "
+"remember your most used programs and put them on the beginning of the list "
+"of executables. This is very convenient for interactive prolonged use, as "
+"with time the things you usually want are right at the very beginning."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"But now I had this thing, yeganesh, that solved this problem for dmenu, but "
+"didn't for fzf."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"I initially considered patching yeganesh to support it, but I found it more "
+"coupled to dmenu than I would desire. I'd rather have something that knows "
+"nothing about dmenu, fzf or anything, but enhances tools like those in a "
+"useful way."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Implementation"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"Other than being decoupled from dmenu, another improvement I though that "
+"could be made on top of yeganesh is the programming language choice. Instead"
+" of Haskell, I went with POSIX sh. Sticking to POSIX sh makes it require "
+"less build-time dependencies. There aren't any, actually. Packaging is made "
+"much easier due to that."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"The good thing is that the program itself is small enough ([119 "
+"lines](https://git.euandreh.xyz/remembering/tree/remembering?id=v0.1.0) on "
+"v0.1.0) that POSIX sh does the job just fine, combined with other POSIX "
+"utilities such as "
+"[getopts](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/getopts.html),"
+" [sort](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sort.html) "
+"and "
+"[awk](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/awk.html)."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"The behaviour is: given a program that will read from STDIN and write a "
+"single entry to STDOUT, `remembering` wraps that program, and rearranges "
+"STDIN so that previous choices appear at the beginning."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Where you would do:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"$ seq 5 | fzf\n"
+"\n"
+"  5\n"
+"  4\n"
+"  3\n"
+"  2\n"
+"> 1\n"
+"  5/5\n"
+">\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "And every time get the same order of numbers, now you can write:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"$ seq 5 | remembering -p seq-fzf -c fzf\n"
+"\n"
+"  5\n"
+"  4\n"
+"  3\n"
+"  2\n"
+"> 1\n"
+"  5/5\n"
+">\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"On the first run, everything is the same. If you picked 4 on the previous "
+"example, the following run would be different:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"$ seq 5 | remembering -p seq-fzf -c fzf\n"
+"\n"
+"  5\n"
+"  3\n"
+"  2\n"
+"  1\n"
+"> 4\n"
+"  5/5\n"
+">\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"As time passes, the list would adjust based on the frequency of your "
+"choices."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"I aimed for reusability, so that I could wrap diverse commands with "
+"`remembering` and it would be able to work. To accomplish that, a "
+"\"profile\" (the `-p something` part) stores data about different runs "
+"separately."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"I took the idea of building something small with few dependencies to other "
+"places too:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "the man pages are written in troff directly;"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "the tests are just more POSIX sh files;"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "and a POSIX Makefile to `check` and `install`."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"I was aware of the value of sticking to coding to standards, but I had past "
+"experience mostly with programming language standards, such as ECMAScript, "
+"Common Lisp, Scheme, or with IndexedDB or DOM APIs. It felt good to "
+"rediscover these nice POSIX tools, which makes me remember of a quote by "
+"[Henry Spencer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer#cite_note-3):"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Usage examples"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Here are some functions I wrote myself that you may find useful:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Run a command with fzf on `$PWD`"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"f() {\n"
+"  profile=\"$f-shell-function(pwd | sed -e 's_/_-_g')\"\n"
+"  file=\"$(git ls-files | \\\n"
+"            remembering -p \"$profile\" \\\n"
+"                        -c \"fzf --select-1 --exit -0 --query \\\"$2\\\" --preview 'cat {}'\")\"\n"
+"  if [ -n \"$file\" ]; then\n"
+"    # shellcheck disable=2068\n"
+"    history -s f $@\n"
+"    history -s \"$1\" \"$file\"\n"
+"  \"$1\" \"$file\"\n"
+"fi\n"
+"}\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"This way I can run `f vi` or `f vi config` at the root of a repository, and "
+"the list of files will always appear on the most used order. Adding `pwd` to"
+" the profile allows it to not mix data for different repositories."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Copy password to clipboard"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"choice=\"$(find \"$HOME/.password-store\" -type f                  | \\\n"
+"            grep -Ev '(.git|.gpg-id)'                           | \\\n"
+"            sed -e \"s|$HOME/.password-store/||\" -e 's/\\.gpg$//' | \\\n"
+"            remembering -p password-store \\\n"
+"                        -c 'dmenu -l 20 -i')\"\n"
+"\n"
+"\n"
+"if [ -n \"$choice\" ]; then\n"
+"  pass show \"$choice\" -c\n"
+"fi\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"Adding the above to a file and binding it to a keyboard shortcut, I can "
+"access the contents of my [password store](https://www.passwordstore.org/), "
+"with the entries ordered by usage."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Replacing yeganesh"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Where I previously had:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "exe=$(yeganesh -x) && exec $exe\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Now I have:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "exe=$(dmenu_path | remembering -p dmenu-exec -c dmenu) && exec $exe\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "This way, the executables appear on order of usage."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"If you don't have `dmenu_path`, you can get just the underlying `stest` tool"
+" that looks at the executables available in your `$PATH`. Here's a juicy "
+"one-liner to do it:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"$ wget -O- https://dl.suckless.org/tools/dmenu-5.0.tar.gz | \\\n"
+"    tar Ozxf - dmenu-5.0/arg.h dmenu-5.0/stest.c          | \\\n"
+"    sed 's|^#include \"arg.h\"$|// #include \"arg.h\"|'       | \\\n"
+"    cc -xc - -o stest\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"With the `stest` utility you'll be able to list executables in your `$PATH` "
+"and pipe them to dmenu or something else yourself:"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"$ (IFS=:; ./stest -flx $PATH;) | sort -u | remembering -p another-dmenu-exec"
+" -c dmenu | sh\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "In fact, the code for `dmenu_path` is almost just like that."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Conclusion"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"For my personal use, I've packaged `remembering` for [GNU "
+"Guix](https://git.euandreh.xyz/euandreh-guix-channel/about/) and "
+"[Nix](https://git.euandreh.xyz/dotfiles/tree/nixos/not-on-"
+"nixpkgs/remembering.nix?id=0831444f745cf908e940407c3e00a61f6152961f). "
+"Packaging it to any other distribution should be trivial, or just "
+"downloading the tarball and running `[sudo] make install`."
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid "Patches welcome!"
+msgstr ""
+
+msgid ""
+"Today I pushed v0.1.0 of "
+"[remembering](https://git.euandreh.xyz/remembering/about/), a tool to "
+"enhance the interactive usability of menu-like tools, such as "
+"[dmenu](https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) and "
+"[fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)."
+msgstr ""
+
+#~ msgid ""
+#~ "Today I pushed v0.1.0 of [remembering](https://remembering.euandreh.xyz), a "
+#~ "tool to enhance the interactive usability of menu-like tools, such as "
+#~ "[dmenu](https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/) and "
+#~ "[fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf)."
+#~ msgstr ""