pls VS KeenWrite

Compare pls vs KeenWrite and see what are their differences.

pls

`pls` is a prettier and powerful `ls(1)` for the pros. (by pls-rs)

KeenWrite

Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math. (by DaveJarvis)
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pls KeenWrite
3 98
654 621
0.8% -
9.0 0.0
about 1 month ago 9 months ago
Rust Java
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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pls

Posts with mentions or reviews of pls. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-27.
  • My last weeks GitHub contributions
    8 projects | dev.to | 27 Apr 2024
    Many PR about typos fixing or installing GitHub actions to validate spellchecking on various repositories fix typos #4 ccoVeille posted on Apr 15, 2024 Fix typos and style Format README.md file View on GitHub Add Typos GitHub Action #37 ccoVeille posted on Apr 19, 2024 https://github.com/marketplace/actions/typos-action Fixes #28 View on GitHub fix typos #113 ccoVeille posted on Apr 13, 2024 Fix typos in code and tests Fix acronyms and brand names View on GitHub fix typos, brands and acronyms #21 ccoVeille posted on Apr 01, 2024 fix typos in code, test and documentation Fix registered trademark and other acronyms View on GitHub Fix typos in the documentation and code comments #99 ccoVeille posted on Apr 21, 2024 View on GitHub typos suggestion #390 ccoVeille posted on Apr 22, 2024 Check list [X] I have performed a self-review of my code [ ] I have commented my code in hard-to-understand areas [X] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation Description Fix some typos and wordings in README.md Fix headers style Fix exemplī grātiā usage (Latin) Type of change [ ] Bug fix [ ] New feature [ ] Refactor [ ] Breaking change [X] Documentation change Test environment Shell [ ] bash [ ] zsh [ ] fish OS [ ] Linux [ ] Mac OS X [ ] Windows [ ] Others: View on GitHub Fix typo and style #3 ccoVeille posted on Apr 25, 2024 View on GitHub
  • Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
    68 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    I'm working on pls (https://github.com/dhruvkb/pls/), a prettier and more powerful alternative to ls(1) that adds a lot of customisation and provides a very fluent command-line interface. It aims to be a superset of exa in terms of the features, while being more actively maintained and targeting a smaller subset of pro-users.

    It works quite well and is very usable as a daily driver. I'm adding more features to it and making it available to install it via platform-native package managers.

  • pls is a better ls for developers
    5 projects | /r/Python | 5 Feb 2022
    I made a small CLI tool called pls (repo). It's a FOSS app for listing the contents of your directory (similar to ls) but it has lots of nifty features geared towards professionals/programmers (hence the 'p' in the name) that make the output prettier and easier to visually parse.

KeenWrite

Posts with mentions or reviews of KeenWrite. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-16.
  • Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
    68 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    KeenWrite is my free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown editor that can produce beautifully typeset PDFs. I started working on it years ago to help write a novel that has a complex timeline and I couldn't find a text editor that would allow me to integrate a character sheet with the story itself.

    https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

    Tutorials:

    * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

    Here's what I mean by using variables directly:

    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCqe3A5dFg

    CommonMark doesn't propose a standard for bibliographic references. Would anyone find the editor more appealing if it had cross-references and citations?

  • Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2023
    My cross-platform desktop text editor, KeenWrite, allows users to define variables in an external YAML file. The editor calls out to Kroki[1] to convert text-based diagrams to SVG. The diagrams can reference variables and are rendered using EchoSVG[2].

    KeenWrite[3] can produce PDF documentation from Markdown documents that has PlantUML diagrams with elements stored in an external, machine-readable file. Here are screenshots showing variables on the left, diagram text in the middle, and a real-time render on the right:

    * https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...

    * https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DaveJarvis/KeenWrite/main/...

    KeenWrite supports all diagrams offered by Kroki, which includes "diagram-plantuml".

    [1]: https://kroki.io/

    [2]: https://github.com/css4j/echosvg/

    [3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

  • On why Markdown is not a good, or even a half-decent, markup language
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
  • MdBook – Create book from Markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
    30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2023
  • KeenWrite 3.3.2: MermaidJS diagrams (with caveat)
    1 project | /r/Markdown | 24 Jun 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
  • Interactive CommonMark Tutorial
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2023
    Although not interactive, I've created a video series that shows advanced usage of Markdown. Namely R, external variables, diagrams, math, annotations, and a different approach to metadata:

    * https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB-WIt1cZYLm1MMx2FBG9...

    Tutorial 4 shows basic Markdown:

    * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNbGSiRzx-0

    The top-right of each video shows keyboard and mouse clicks to help follow along.[1] My desktop text editor, KeenWrite[2], is used in the tutorials.

    [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/kmcaster

    [2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

  • “Exit Traps” Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust and Reliable
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2023
    https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/main/scripts/bu...

    My template script provides a way to make user-friendly shell scripts. In a script that uses the template, you define the dependencies and their sources:

        DEPENDENCIES=(
  • EchoSVG: SVG rasterizer library supporting level 4 selectors (Apache 2)
    4 projects | /r/java | 8 Jun 2023
    I didn't create the fork, nor am I affiliated with the project. I use it in my text editor, KeenWrite to rasterize SVG.
  • Millions of dollars in time wasted making papers fit journal guidelines
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2023
    KeenWrite Themes[1] are instructions that tell ConTeXt how to typeset XHTML documents (content) into PDF files (presentation). I made a tutorial that shows how my FOSS desktop text editor, KeenWrite[3], allows users to write in Markdown to typeset a document against a particular theme.

    Before it can be used for scientific papers, it needs cross-references, which, unfortunately, aren't part of the CommonMark specification.

    I posit that the vast majority of LaTeX users don't grok how to separate content from presentation. When I asked a question on TeX.SE about how to adjust the line spacing between enumerated items (spanning a couple dozen enumerated lists), the vast majority of people voted for the answer of using `\itemsep0em` to tweak each list ... individually.[4] The correct answer, IMO, is to fix the problem globally, and not waste time tweaking individual lists.

    [1]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes

    [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpX70O5S30

    [3]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite

    [4]: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6081/reduce-space-be...

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pls and KeenWrite you can also consider the following projects:

rich-cli - Rich-cli is a command line toolbox for fancy output in the terminal

markdown-preview.nvim - markdown preview plugin for (neo)vim

click - Python composable command line interface toolkit

marktext - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows.

vanna - 🤖 Chat with your SQL database 📊. Accurate Text-to-SQL Generation via LLMs using RAG 🔄.

typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.

jekyll-sqlite - A Jekyll plugin that lets you use SQLite database instead of data files as a data source.

vim-markdown - Markdown Vim Mode

cpu-n1 - Simulator for a CPU that's even simpler than CPU0.

Zettlr - Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

tqdm - :zap: A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI

kroki - Creates diagrams from textual descriptions!