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Show HN: Desk – lightweight workspace management for the shell

by jobeirne on 10/25/15, 12:44 AM with 9 comments

• by rane on 10/25/15, 8:19 AM

  zaw's[1] history widget on Ctrl-R is so much better than the regular backward history search that it's difficult to imagine using a shell without it anymore.

  1: https://github.com/zsh-users/zaw

• by eivarv on 10/26/15, 1:11 PM

  This looks useful!

  I've also been working on tools to make user context switching easier on the terminal (such as a project of mine called prm[0]), and I'm currently working on bringing this sort of functionality to the desktop environment.

  If you (or anyone else) wants to talk about these sorts of things, or know of any good relevant research, please drop me a line here or at eivind dot arvesen at gmail dot com.

  [0]: https://github.com/eivind88/prm

• by jabagonuts on 10/25/15, 5:02 PM

  On the surface, Desk workspaces seem very similar to tmux sessions. I'm curious why one would choose Desk over tmux to manage multiple workspaces in the shell? https://robots.thoughtbot.com/a-tmux-crash-course

• by bryanlarsen on 10/25/15, 11:03 AM

  It would be cool if this functionality could be hooked into cd like rvm does.

• by systemz on 10/25/15, 6:42 PM

  I don't understand this concept at all. How this can help me?

• by aliakhtar on 10/25/15, 7:54 PM

  The main feature seems to be that you're letting me use the same command in different environments, to do different things?

• by twsted on 10/25/15, 9:38 AM

  I like the concept.