So the question is, what does a commercial website gain from people clicking on links to that website? I’m not even sure where to start to explain that one if one has to ask.
in kakoune, this is `<a-i>p<a-j>|reflow<ret>`. which is obviously not as simple as `gq`, but you can rebind this, add things like auto-reflow as you type, etc., rather trivially, and rebind them (and a lot of these types of tools come preloaded as bindable commands). it's some work to set up this type of thing (and it makes perfect sense to use e.g. vim to not need to do that), but i like the composable design, where i can write some configuration to hook a shell command to a bind, rather than fork and PR changes (e.g. a c++ reflow function), and the config files can be written and PRd into the default distribution as well, so the user experience would be equivalent.
apologies, i probably should've written `fmt` there (which does the same thing). `reflow` is a `fmt` clone i wrote, without the knowledge `fmt` existed --- that was a bit embarrassing for a friend to eventually point out, that my idea was already in coreutils :D i use `fmt` now because i figure it's far better tested (i think it's posix), but i still think of the action as a "reflow", and that's also the term helix uses.
'|' is the command to pipe a selection through a shell command and replace it with the output, so I guess it's just a regular command on their system. You could use any other reflow or reformatting program you had handy. Kakoune in particular is really serious about delegating everything possible to the system.
Honestly, it might have just been a placeholder name for an arbitrary formatter. I vaguely remember old-school unix had a command for that, but none of them seem to be named exactly "reflow".
(I get what you're saying, spiritually, your pasta water from your giant pot of one box of pasta isn't gonna do much to thicken your sauce. But it's not a myth, just a matter of degree)
Even when I worked for Medicare I couldn't get the damned post office to give us accurate zip code data! It's terrible geodata but also almost everybody remembers it and most zip codes map to one county, so it was the best UI we found for getting a general area for where a person lived.
yeah! There are like 12 three-county zip codes, some are really fun, like places where a boat delivers the mail and goes to multiple states along the lake. And some zips don't refer to geographical areas at all, and others are military bases.
It was still the best UI option despite that - if you entered a ZIP that corresponded to multiple states/counties we'd pop up a second box that asked you which you lived in, but for 99% of people it was all we needed
From my perspective it makes sense as a default for go, which may be used to make either apps (things with bundle identifiers that go in /Applications) or CLI applications (which I wish would use ~/.config, but I understand that that's just my preference)
I expect _applications_ to put their config there, as the author says; something that lives in /Applications or ~/Applications and has a bundle specifier.
I wish I expected CLI programs to put their config in ~/.config, but I do actually expect them to just dump them into ~ annoyingly
We have different expectations I guess. I think of CLI as applications, even though they aren't "Mac Apps". I don't see what is gained applications putting their files in different places based on how I interact with them.
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