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Congratulations!

The way how you implemented "man" ("man ls" for instance) shows how a convenient shell can look like. Pigshell could be a foundation for a completely new kind of toolchain for web development. I am thinking of seemless integration of JS editors, D3 graphics for pipe output, etc. ... Wait - it's already working :-)

http://bl.ocks.org/ganeshv/raw/b971989c337e958c0531/

If it just were possible to access the bare bone hardware so that we wouldn't be restricted to the JS world (in a closed environment, of course).




The way the man page is formatted is great but I don't like the scrollbar inside a scrollbar effect. It's been traditionally a worst practice. It's better to have the man page take all the vertical space it needs in the main frame and add a Close button to the end of the man.

By the way, from http://pigshell.com/v/0.6.2/doc/psty.html "Websocket server: Every unix app on the desktop which uses stdin/stdout can participate in a pigshell pipeline" so maybe your request has already been implemented.


> By the way, ...

Thanks, meanwhile I have realized that also :-)




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