by binds yourself for repeating commandline buffer

For example, by git binds git commands so that you no longer retype git every time.

$ by git
$ git
# ^-- appears automatically to make subsequent git workflows

$ git status
$ git add README.md
$ git commit -m "add README.md"

Unbind by by without arguments:

$ by
$

Note that the bounded commandline buffer is still a normal commandline buffer. You still have chance to modify it before execution.

See Why by? for more use cases.

Installation

Supported shells: zsh, fish

zsh

with sheldon

$ sheldon add by --git https://github.com/atusy/by-binds-yourself

manual

source by.zsh

fish

with fisher

fisher install atusy/by-binds-yourself

manual

source by.fish

Why by?

This project is inspired by mchav/with, the program prefixing for continuous workflow using a single tool.

To bring more flexibility, by is designed to use native commandline buffer.

To bind without breaking native shell features

completions, history, and so on

# completion
$ by git
$ git ch<TAB>

To bind environment variables without exporting

$ BAR="$(cat file)"
$ by 'FOO="$BAR"'

To bind buffer in a modifiable way

$ by gcc -o output input.c
$ gcc -o output input.c
$ gcc -o output input.c
$ gcc -o YET_ANOTHER_OUTPUT input.c
# The bind is just a normal buffer that can be modified