For the upcoming CLI 3.0 I’m considering renaming the binary from asciinema to something shorter, which resembles the original name but is just easier to type.
“asciinema” is 9 letters, easy to make a typo, and autocompletion in shell often stops at “ascii”, if you press tab after “asc” and your system has ascii program installed…
Do you like any of these options?
ama
anm
ciin
cin
cine
cnm
nema
nma
The names above don’t seem to conflict with existing binaries available in debian/ubuntu/nixos repositories.
Please no, this is what dotfile aliases are for. Different names presents unneeded complexities and even worse conflicts for system maintainers.
Sounds like you also need a better autocompleted for your shell. Fish has a brilliant builtin one, carapace is cross-shell and great. Dorothy supports both.
I do use fish and yet it doesn’t help much with auto-completing asciinema for me. I have ascii and asciiquarium programs also installed, so in order to get asciinema completed I need to type asciin{tab} - too much for me
I assumed many people feel the same. But apparently it’s not a problem for majority of users (who might not have ascii/asciiquarium installed). It was just an idea.
I’ll probably just alias aa=asciinema and forget about it.
If you were to change it nema sounds good, thats what I use for it on my site(since I run it on a subdomain). I do find the name inconveniently long but I don’t find myself running it often enough for it to become an issue. Just adding my thoughts sorry.
