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0 pointsmakapuf1mo ago0 comments

More importantly, dont use color as sole source of information. Strikethrough, emoji or ok / bad can also be used.

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Emojis aren't 7-bit clean. They're hard to type. They don't mean things the same way words do. `foo | grep -i error` communicates intent better than `foo | grep :-/` or whatever goofy hieroglyph someone chose instead of, like, a word with clearly defined meaning.

wredcoll1mo ago

In my experience with live codebases, "error" or "warning" rarely mean the same thing to the same person, but admittedly you're much more likely to guess that they're in use as opposed to crying-green-clown emoji

craftkiller1mo ago

> They're hard to type

I'd like to recommend rofimoji. I have it bound to a hotkey, so whenever I want to type an emoji, I just hit that hotkey and then a window pops up with my most recent emoji already visible at the top. Then I start typing in words that describe the emoji that I want like "crying" and it filters the list. Finally I select one and it pastes it into whatever text box I had selected before I hit the hotkey. My only complaint is I wish it worked for all unicode codepoints instead of just the emoji.

makapufOP1mo ago

Yes that's why I also mentioned text labels. (strikethrough ansi codes aren't also fun to type). Besides, where are you needing 7but clean data ? Isn't that a narrow use case ?

xenophonf1mo ago

> narrow use case?

It's the robustness principle. "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." A CLI author shouldn't assume support for UTF-8.

makapufOP1mo ago

ok in that context use error or ok, just dont use color as ~10% of ppl have an issue with seeing colors perfectly (that includes people with epaper displays)

Lammy1mo ago

> They're hard to type.

Globe key + E on Mac, Windows key + period on Windows, Ctrl + period on GNOME, Super key + period on KDE, yada yada.

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xenophonf1mo ago

wredcoll1mo ago

craftkiller1mo ago

> They're hard to type

makapufOP1mo ago

Yes that's why I also mentioned text labels. (strikethrough ansi codes aren't also fun to type). Besides, where are you needing 7but clean data ? Isn't that a narrow use case ?

xenophonf1mo ago

> narrow use case?

It's the robustness principle. "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others." A CLI author shouldn't assume support for UTF-8.

makapufOP1mo ago

ok in that context use error or ok, just dont use color as ~10% of ppl have an issue with seeing colors perfectly (that includes people with epaper displays)

Lammy1mo ago

> They're hard to type.

Globe key + E on Mac, Windows key + period on Windows, Ctrl + period on GNOME, Super key + period on KDE, yada yada.

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