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Rob Ricci

Yesterday I discovered comma github.com/nix-community/comma and it is going to change my life forever, I think.

It allows you to run basically anything on without installing it. (This is possible without comma, but comma makes it trivial). This is amazing for those things that you need to use like once a year.
27 May 2023 at 15:53 | Open on discuss.systems
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musicmatze :rust: :nixos:

@ricci
So it is an alias for "nix run", basically?

27 May 2023 at 16:41 | Open on social.linux.pizza
Rob Ricci

@musicmatze It also wraps nix-index to look up which package to find a binary in

27 May 2023 at 17:01 | Open on discuss.systems
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Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen

@ricci If you like `comma`, you may love the combo of `programs.command-not-found.enable` and `NIX_AUTO_RUN`.

27 May 2023 at 18:09 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen

@ricci (It basically cuts your example down to just giving you nmap straight away when you asked for it)

27 May 2023 at 18:11 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Rob Ricci

@AngryAnt That's amazing! I think for now I'll stick with making it explicit but maybe if I get used to it enough

27 May 2023 at 18:41 | Open on discuss.systems
bashfulrobot / Dustin Krysak
Pierre Bourdon

@ricci you can also just set the NIX_AUTO_RUN=1 environment variable, then you don't even need the comma :-) even more trivial imo

27 May 2023 at 21:01 | Open on mastodon.delroth.net
Jörg Thalheim
Rob Ricci

@mic92 I'm using it! Thanks for building this!

28 May 2023 at 14:31 | Open on discuss.systems
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