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Eli Mellen
02/18/2023, 5:28 PMInspired by re-reading Naur’s “Programming as Theory Building” I decided to make myself a text editor to solve all my problems… tl;dr I wrote a blog post and some bash instead 😂
My first attempt at this was more elaborate -- rather than bash and saving to the file system, I was trying to do something with sqlite, and having a database backing each file of a project.
The idea was that I could assign any row + column number as an ID, and then generate a connected moon from that.
This was a cool idea, but so fragile as to be untenable. Plain text doesn't offer a great way to reference specific points in a file if that file is changing.
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Benji York
02/18/2023, 6:29 PMCool!
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Eli Mellen
02/18/2023, 6:29 PMThanks! Also welcome! 👋
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Benji York
02/18/2023, 6:30 PMWhile reading I first thought you were going to go full FUSE and build an alternate file system that criss-crosses the "real" files in some strange way.
That... might actually be cool.
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Eli Mellen
02/18/2023, 6:32 PMIn my notes I just have a big “9p?” to indicate if Plan9’s 9p could do what I want…because I try to solve many problems with stuff from plan9
(My track record so far is 0)
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Benji York
02/18/2023, 6:34 PMheh
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Jimmy Miller
02/19/2023, 3:26 AMSo glad to see more people exploring the space between files and no files. @Benji York Love the idea of doing a virtual filesystem. I definitely need to play with that.
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Eli Mellen
02/19/2023, 3:53 AMSomething I thought about trying to do was hack some sort of editor into fossil-scm, and use SQLite to store everything … but … c
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Jack Rusher
02/19/2023, 11:37 AMFYI I do many things with synthetic filesystems. In an effort to make it easier for others to experiment with that sort of thing, I wrote up this clojure stub as an example/convenient starting point:
https://gist.github.com/jackrusher/e5fef18113ae721486c47acada19089c