67 pointsby dtnewman13 hours ago14 comments
  • submeta13 hours ago
    Nice! I use a combination of an endless bash (zsh) history with timestamps that I navigate via fzf and ctr+r and comments I occasionally add to commands via # at the end followed by my annotation so that I can rediscover the command.

    I do this ever since I switched to a Mac in 2015 and my history has over 60,000 lines. So that’s basically my knowledge base :)

    But your project looks nice. Will check out.

    • reddit_clone8 hours ago
      Exactly my setup including the #tag's. It is my second brain.

      What I love about this is the fzf's fuzzy narrow down. You don't have to start at the beginning of command, you don't have to worry about exact spelling. Just a few snippets you remember, it will narrow it down really fast.

      I use the same fuzzy search narrow downs in Emacs.

      I miss it everywhere else.

    • afefers11 hours ago
      Can you explain how you achieve this?
      • WalterGR6 hours ago
        Shells that use readline (such as bash) may have a history search feature built-in and on by default. Try pressing Ctrl-r or Cmd-r and see if a prompt pops up.

        You can build your own workflow by hand by doing something like:

        1. Turn on your shell’s feature to record command history.

        2. Look into its feature set to control things such as how many entries it remembers, whether it remembers duplicate entries, and whether it timestamps each entry. (Don’t forget to restart each instance of your shell, if needed, for changes to take effect.)

        3. Install a tool such as fzf that allows interactive filtering of arbitrary text. (Via Homebrew it’s `brew install fzf`. It’s likely something similar for other package managers.) These tools usually: read lines of input, prompt the user to optionally filter but eventually select a line, then just print that line.

        4. Write the necessary shell script(s) / functions / aliases to do things like:

        + invoke the fuzzy-finder on the shell’s history file or a modified version of that file (for example, a modified version that excludes bash’s timestamp lines, or that joins them - perhaps in a human-readable format - with the command it timestamps.)

        + process the output of the fuzzy-finder tool (for example, to copy the command to the clipboard, paste it into the shell, or execute it immediately - which will necessitate things like removing any timestamps or additional notation added in the previous step.)

        Step 4 can be easy as something approximating (I’m on mobile right now):

           fzf “$HOME/.bash_history” | copy-to-clipboard
      • import10 hours ago
        Not op but you need fzf and you need to increase the history size of your bash/ssh whatever

        https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

  • AvieDeckard10 hours ago
    Your gif in your README features a prompt asking to "show all files in this directory" but the 'ls -lh' returned and selected in the demo gif does not show all files, just the ones that aren't hidden. I'd have chosen a more accurate interaction for the demo.
  • arjie12 hours ago
    I don't like most of these commands because they just execute. This one is nice because it will be in your history. The current trick I use is to use copilot.vim at the command line. It naturally fits into my flow.

    Recently some of my friends reported that it just wants to do comments and I've noticed that it actually biases towards that nowadays, so I start it with something to get it kicked off.

    I've been managing to try to figure out what in the prompt makes it like that, but for the moment that little workaround gives me both the comment and the command in my history so it's easier to r-i-search for it.

    https://x.com/arjie/status/1575201117595926530

    You just set up copilot for neovim normally and set it as your EDITOR. https://wiki.roshangeorge.dev/index.php/AI_Completion_In_The...

  • CGamesPlay6 hours ago
    You may be interested in copying some of the usage patterns from my similar project: https://github.com/CGamesPlay/llm-cmd-comp

    Instead of being a separate command, I released a set of key bindings you can push that start the LLM prompt with your current command line, and if you successfully accept the suggestion, replace your command line with the result, bypassing the manual clipboard step, and making it so that the result goes into your shell history as a normal command.

  • 0x696C696113 hours ago
    I really like how it gives you multiple options to choose from. I've been using https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd
    • dtnewman11 hours ago
      Thanks! My main issue is that i'm lazy and although i often know approximately what i want i don't want to type a lot of words to describe it exactly. For example writing `zev 'show disk usage'` is somewhat ambiguous. Am i talking about my current folder or the harddrive? My idea was that rather than typing out what I want explicitly, i want to type the minimum amount and then just select the best of available options.
  • chrisco2312 hours ago
    I'm trying to get this to work with ollama. I'm on Arch Linux, fish shell, new to ollama, and only very rarely used pipx. I get:

    raise ValueError("OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`.") ValueError: OPENAI_BASE_URL and OPENAI_API_KEY must be set. Try running `zev --setup`

    even when I run (for example) set -x ZEV_USE_OLLAMA 1; zev 'show all files and all permissions'

    • dtnewman12 hours ago
      creator here. It pulls env variables from a file in your appstorage directory. I need to change this in a future release to make it cleaner, since I don't think i like it intermingling with env variables.

      That said, did you run `zev --setup`?

      • dtnewman12 hours ago
        btw, feel free to open an issue on github :)
  • arp2429 hours ago
    Named after Zev from the film Remember? A few years back I wrote a Vim plugin to remember things with the same name :-)
    • dtnewman8 hours ago
      ha, no, just a coincidence. Named after someone i know named Zev. But chose it because it's short and not taken on Pypi
  • latchkey9 hours ago
    • dtnewman9 hours ago
      different use case. atuin is for past commands, whereas this uses an LLM to give you options for commands.
      • latchkey9 hours ago
        Feels like this should be an extension to atuin instead of a separate tool.
        • anamexis8 hours ago
          Why? Besides both involving terminal commands, they serve very different purposes.
  • tzury5 hours ago
    Newman!
  • wapxmas12 hours ago
    how do I install it with pip? It requires to be in virtual environment. (
    • dtnewman11 hours ago
      it should run outside of a virtual env and is intended to be installed locally. That said, it currently has too many dependencies (IMO) and i'm working on cutting them down to avoid conflicts.
    • trallnag11 hours ago
      Use something like pipx or uv
  • regnull12 hours ago
    Somewhat related, here's a little project I've done with LLM: https://github.com/regnull/how.sh

    It uses locally hosted (or remote) LLMs to create and execute shell commands that you describe. You can go as far as writing "shell scripts" in natural language.

    • 12 hours ago
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  • curtisszmania13 hours ago
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  • imzadi9 hours ago
    Hi Zev!