Mushrat
I’ve got this idea going around in my head about a command line utility that is part text editor, part programming language.
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mushrat-goals - goals and non-goals
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mushrat-lang - the language
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mushrat-ide - the super weird, super cool interactive editor
As
Before creating this, I plan to write a port of sed as a learning exercise.
"Mushrat"???
I’m calling it "Mushrat" after the way a character says "muskrat" in SWAMP CAT by
Jim Kjelgaard (archive.org),
a book I read as a child.
It shortens to mr and I don’t see any other super popular CLI tools with that initialism.
And the "rat" part is evocative of my "ratfactor" domain and handle.
TODO: a funny drawing of a muskrat
TODO: links I’ve gathered so far (Firefox: Projects > Mushrat!) (split across the mushrat topic pages above?)
TODO: move notes here from my "better-sed" page on ratf (not linking here so search engines don’t pick up on it resulting in an "Uncool URL" when I remove it!)
sample data
How do i show interesting or useful preview samples of the code working interactively on a user’s own data?
Well, I watched a presentation that showed to how to surface exceptional data. You basically run a "simulation" with each element removed to see if it makes a big different.
Basically, show the most "different" output rows from the sample versus the previous run?
summarize the diff between runs?
examples
A fantasy mushrat-to-unix (coreutils and/or shell) one-liners comparison would help me flesh out the desired functionality. so find some good one-liner references