#644 Thanks for pijul! Some command line aliases and an executable naming suggestion
Opened by simonmichael on February 1, 2022
ScribblyBirb on February 14, 2022
I would generally agree that pijul is not convenient to type frequently and one of the first things I did upon (just) starting to use pijul was set alias ani pijul in my shell for precisely this reason.
joyously on February 23, 2022
See the discussion from last year on Discourse: https://discourse.pijul.org/t/suggestion-change-executable-name-to-pj/257/
simonmichael on February 23, 2022
Thanks!
coconut on February 28, 2022
I do have alias pj=pijul in my ~/.bashrc, too. That was the first thing I did after I successfully built and installed it. pj is much easier and faster to type, one character better than git! ^^
pmeunier, I very much appreciate your long term dedicated work on pijul. Congratulations on reaching beta. As a long time darcs user/contributor/hub maintainer and occasional pijul watcher, things are sounding very good. As of the beta I’m now successfully using pijul and nest for some small stuff.
As usual with a new VCS, I needed aliases to use it comfortably. New users, especially coming from git or darcs, might find them useful at least for getting started:
https://nest.pijul.com/simonmichael/pijul-scripts
On typical keyboards, “pijul” is not pleasant to type very frequently; the right hand must type all letters, and the motion is not easy. So the first thing I did was alias it to “pj”. May I humbly suggest renaming the executable that way before adoption increases ? A tool that’s quick to type will catch on faster.
Many thanks!
[“darcs” has the same issue! But at least the motion is more circular.]