Ah the joy of something old as a new discovery! What a great feeling, where has this been all this time?

OP/blog author: Great post, thank you for sharing your experiences

I've been sloshing in the text soup of Tiddlywiki Sqlite3(csv) VimWiki OrgMode Mediawiki Freemind(xml) and now it looks like Rec is the next ingredient to experiment with.

FZF and moreso Ripgrep https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep has been really great to add to the mix.

PandaWhisperer

Inb4 someone makes or mentions a JavaScript-based version of this, which operates on JSON files.

In fact, you can already do the querying part using https://stedolan.github.io/jq/, I believe you can make modifications with it as well, but a different front end a la recins/recdel would make that a bit more convenient.

kragen

Sure, but do you want to write

    [{"title": "Opening",
      "lede": "What happens when we \"open\" a file?"},
     {"title": "ltrace",
      "lede": "It turns out that ltrace uses the \"ptrace\" system call."}]

    title: Opening
    lede: What happens when we "open" a file?

    title: ltrace
    lede: It turns out that ltrace uses the "ptrace" system call.

? When you get a parsing failure after you edit it (or after a sector on your SD card gets a read error), which one do you think will be easier to fix?

chpatrick

There's also jq for yaml: https://github.com/kislyuk/yq