Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig

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minraws•about 2 hours ago

I didn't quite gel with it, seemed overly, well opinionated for no meaningful performance or otherwise improvement to any other simple prompt.

lfx•40 minutes ago

This is awesome -

*A history picker on the up arrow*

*Commands are recorded once they finish, and only when they exited cleanly, so typos never clutter the list.*

Where the history is stored? Is it possible to store in single place like user root dir?*

seanhunter•21 minutes ago

Does that mean you can't go up and fix a typo? If so, that sounds strictly worse than what you get by default from the shell (which is up arrow, ctrl-r and various other methods of history searching, and history substitution or editing to fix errors).

yamafaktory•29 minutes ago

Thanks for the feedback! You can run `whetuu paths` and will get that, I'll fix the readme.

kedislav•about 2 hours ago

please stop piping into bash or sh. force people to use the editor, read the install script, and tell them how to run it

GuB-42•20 minutes ago

"curl | sh" certainly feels wrong, but in the end, even if you download and read the script before running commands, let's be real: you are going to run a binary that you didn't inspect.

Not saying you shouldn't check your scripts, I usually do, I like to know where the files are going in case the installer messes up, but the risks tend to be overstated compared to running the executable itself.

Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig

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